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John Byrne
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| Posted: 18 November 2025 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | 1
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The greatest horror, of course, is that any movie adaptation would perforce include all the changes shoveled in since my day.
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Dave Kopperman
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| Posted: 18 November 2025 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | 2
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Maybe? I think the MCU studio plan is to lean in to the generally-agreed-upon fan favorite version of any teams (which seems to lean pretty heavily on the Gen X window of 1979-1986). They could no doubt find eight ways to Sunday to screw it up going from there, but I have little fear that the whole Puck demon soul sword thing would be used, for example.
I could see them shorting the Mac Guardian in favor of getting to Heather, but the whole widow taking up the mantle thing feels like cinematic catnip.
Edited by Dave Kopperman on 18 November 2025 at 9:51pm
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James Johnson
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| Posted: 18 November 2025 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | 3
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Soooooooooooooo.....
Marrina has tattoos now? 🤦🏾♂️
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| Posted: 18 November 2025 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | 4
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I was not familiar with Puck's origin story, as I stopped reading the book when JB left.
That is... not a good origin story. |
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Dave Kopperman
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| Posted: 18 November 2025 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | 5
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Yeah, Puck's thing ultimately was - if not THE thing that caused me to drop the book, at least a big part of it. I honestly don't think I lasted more than through the handful of issues that Mignola pencilled, so what's that... six months into Mantlo's run?
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 19 November 2025 at 12:08am | IP Logged | 6
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The greatest horror, of course, is that any movie adaptation would perforce include all the changes shoveled in since my day._______________________
The successful movies are usually closest to the original vision (Stan Lee era for Marvel, etc.). The movies that are sinking Marvel Studios usually reflect the later, revisionist versions.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 19 November 2025 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | 7
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ALPHA FLIGHT is too much of an unknown. Unless hardcore fans of my time on the book were put in charge, I doubt it would experience the “protection” you cite. Besides, I left ALPHA a hundred and twelve years ago. All the dross that’s been piled on is REAL to most readers. It’s like the X-Men.
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| Posted: 19 November 2025 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | 8
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I'm most definitely not 'that guy', but I've always felt like the only real Alpha Flight is your Alpha Flight - in a way that I don't have any such opinions on any other team or character in Marvel/DC, other than Howard the Duck. And it's really just in the writing. No shade on Mantlo (though some shade on Lobdell), but every other subsequent writer felt equally hollow and over-amped. No-one seemed to understand those characters, which I find fairly baffling because they're so clearly defined in your original run.
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