Alpha Flight (Vol. 1)

**Line**: Global

**Status**: Concluded

## Details

**ALPHA FLIGHT**

 Written by TY TEMPLETON

 Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

 Tagline: People from the North, Heroes for the world!

 Cast:

 1. Guardian

 2. Vindicator

 3. Sasquatch

 4. Puck

 5. Shaman

 6. Marrina

 7. Snowbird

 Supporting: Strongarm, Silver, Auric, Wild Child

 Antagonists: Master of the World, Jerome Jaxon, Delphine Courtney, Deadly Ernest, Wendigo

## Issues

**ALPHA FLIGHT #0 \*\*\*EXCLUSIVE TO MARVEL GLOBAL\*\*\***

 Words & Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY and TY TEMPLETON

 Plot by SUPERCOOPER

“THE GOVERNMENT ”

15 years from now…..amongst the wreckage of Parliament Hill, a resilient Alpha Flight stands prepared to face off against a shadowed beast that has tormented the country for the last decade. They are: Walter Langkowski, furless but hulking; Marrina, dressed in alien Plodex battle armour; Puck, possessed by a raging spirit from the netherworld; Shaman, frail and draped in the cloak of the absent Snowbird; and a new, female Guardian, with frigid powers. They stand alone against this threat. But…..today is not that day! No, in the present, Canada’s premier superhero squadron have far more pressing things on their mind…like being handed the keys to Department H, the nation’s scientific-supernatural-extraordinary crimes division! Hold on to your toques as two fan favourite creators kick off the story of Vindicator, Guardian, Sasquatch, Marrina, Puck, Snowbird and Shaman, who’ll learn that the pitfalls of bureaucracy can be just as dangerous as any supervillain!

 32 PGs./Rated T...$2.99

**ALPHA FLIGHT #1**

 Written by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

 Plot by SUPERCOOPER

 Art by TY TEMPLETON

 “RECRUITS AND REGRETS” Part 1 of 3 “SOME EXPLAINING TO DO…”

 It’s a battle of wits! New Department H director Heather Hudson confronts disgraced, disgruntled and dishevelled former director Jerome Jaxon, and proves why she’ll always be worthy of the name VINDICATOR! It’s a battle of fists! Recruitment leaders Puck and Marrina, alongside Supernatural Investigators Snowbird and Shaman, make a house call to an Albertan mother who says that her son is possessed…..only to come face-to-face with a Wendigo-afflicted WILD CHILD! It’s a battle of lists! In the R&D Division, Sasquatch and Guardian start at the top of their to-do list, determining why electromagnetic flares are sprouting across the nation…and why Jerome Jaxon is declaring Mac guilty!

 32 PGs./Rated T...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #2

Written by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“RECRUITS AND REGRETS” Part 2 of 3 “A TOWN CALLED WENDIGO”

The Wendigo curse has spread…..what was once a plague on humans has turned the entire town of Bear Brook, Alberta, into carnivorous, bloodthirsty beasts! Cats and dogs, jeans and cars, nothing and no one is safe! Not even Alpha Flight’s Shaman, who’s come face-to-face with the town’s de facto leader (and only one not transforming) Pastor Carl Orcinus. And when the pastor reveals the town’s dark past as a Wendigo breeding ground, Shaman, Snowbird, Puck, Marrina and new recruit Wild Child will have a difficult decision to make: destroy the town and the curse for good, or let them run wild and free? This is one case of mystical mayhem that you’ll have to see to believe!

32PGs./Rated T...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #3

Written by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“RECRUITS AND REGRETS” Part 3 of 3 “POSSESSED OF A POWER SO GREAT”

In fifteen minutes time, the small logging town of Bear Brook, Alberta, and its Wendigo-afflicted inhabitants, will be no more…and it will be all Alpha Flight’s fault! Outside of town, Shaman and Snowbird have made the unthinkable choice, and have begun casting the spell that will transport Bear Brook into the realm of the Great Beasts, permanently! But it may be too late….because in Ottawa, Mac, Walter and Heather have discovered the cause of the mysterious electromagnetic flares: a vault of ready-to-use Guardian suits! And when the Prime Minister himself arrives and locks in the coordinates for the next explosion, the Department H-bound Alphans will have to watch in horror as the small town gets torn apart…and the Wendigo energies are absorbed into their newest recruit, Wild Child! Meanwhile, in Vancouver, a pair of super-powered twins crash land on the shoreline after a cross Pacific flight...and fall into the sights of Canadian crime lord Deadly Ernest!

32 PGs./Rated T...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #4

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“AUTHORITY, FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING”

The fallout from last issue hits here, as Department H director Heather Hudson confronts the Prime Minister himself on the destruction of Bear Brook, Alberta; Sasquatch and Shaman attempt to siphon off the Wendigo energy trapped inside of Beta Flight recruit Wild Child; and Mac begins disassembling the cache of Guardian suits setting off electromagnetic flares across the country! (Phew!) And the red tape and rigmarole of bureaucracy will make life even more complicated for the Alphans…because two of their members are being sent outta the country! As Marrina begins sifting through the mountain of files for potential trainees, her fellow recruiter and Beta Flight instructor Puck is sent overseas alongside Mac to retrieve soldier/cyborg/war machine Strongarm…in pieces, spread across the Arabian Desert!

32 PGs./Rated T...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #5

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“THE DEEP END OF THE POOL”

A Marrina solo adventure! With her Beta Flight co-leader Puck out of the country, and the other Alphans kept busy at Department H, it’s time for Newfoundland’s favourite amphibious, alien daughter to cut loose! And that means a few games of frolf, a swim down the Rideau Canal (it’s not frozen…yet!), and a run in with…herself! Someone’s painted downtown Ottawa green and unleashed a squadron of angry Marrinas on the city! Clones, robots, ghosts, alternate reality iterations? All Marrina knows is she’s being dragged back to the Canal, and is drowning for the first time in her life! And with no help in sight she’ll have to call upon her Plodexian adaptive and berserker abilities for the first, and quite possibly last, time!

32 PGs./Rated T...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #6

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“TOUGHER STUFF THAN YOU”

Take a peek inside of the criminal underworld, as recent super-powered refugees Jimon and Zhao Tang, the chill-inducing Silver and heat-blasting Auric, remain trapped in the employ of Canadian crime lord Deadly Ernest! But when their next mission for Ernest leads them into conflict with Beta Flight instructor Puck and new recruit Strongarm, the elemental siblings may have a chance to escape…until Ernest reveals their family members, kidnapped from China and held hostage by the death-dealing criminal mastermind! Meanwhile, back at Department H, while Shaman probes the mind of the near-catatonic and still Plodexified Marrina, Sasquatch and Snowbird step in to help train Wild Child on his newly acquired Wendigo abilities! And when Walter and Narya convene and debrief afterwards, their monstrous and mystical pheromones may still be hanging in the air!

ALPHA FLIGHT #7

Written by BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

'REDRAWN BORDERLINES' Part 1 of 3 'NEIGHBOUR TO THE NORTH' \*A Secret World War tie-in!\*

Alpha Flight: Protecting Canada's borders from threats both mystical and maniacal! Alpha Flight: Defending the great white north from all who would threaten it! Alpha Flight: About to invade Alaska?! The unlikeliest of situations leads to the unlikeliest of team ups, as Mac Hudson, Guardian, alongside teammates Puck, the slowly de-Plodexifying Marrina, and Beta Flight recruits Wild Child and Strongarm join forces with Roxxon Oil to reclaim a piece of terraforming technology stolen from Department H! But when they cross the border they'll come face to face with a conflict they never expected...as the Roxxon agents reveal themselves as agents of the ancient God of chaos, Mikaboshi! And they intend to wipe the North of its resources for their demonic master...with the help of Marrina's alien biology!

32 PGs/Rated T+... $2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #8

Written by BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“REDRAWN BORDERLINES” Part 2 of 3 “RUN PARALLEL” \*A Secret World War Tie-In!\*

It’s chaos to the north…way up north and across the border, as Alphans Guardian, Puck and Marrina, with Beta Flight members Strongarm and Wild Child, are ambushed by the Roxxon agents they were trying to help! And when the terraforming technology the turncoats were trying to procure for their master, ancient spirit of evil Mikaboshi, is activated within Marrina herself, only the alien from Newfoundland and the Wendigo-possessed Wild Child will be left standing! But it’s tumultuously transforming ground they stand on, as the earth beneath Marrina’s feet begins warping into ash and coal! Meanwhile, back in Ottawa, Shaman, Snowbird, and Sasquatch prepare to head out and aid their friends…until all of Parliament Hill becomes surrounded by Roxxon agents claiming it as their new base of operations!

32 PGS./Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #9

Written by BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“REDRAWN BORDERLINES” Part 3 of 3 “UNRESTRAINED”

The members of Alpha Flight are not strangers to ‘uncontrollable’ power: they’ve battled demons and demi-gods of all kinds before, and they’ve had them join their team, too! But in Alaska, altered both by her own alien physiology and the tampering of a Roxxon terraforming machine, Marrina’s power has become so much more than uncontrollable…she’s become a global threat! And with Wild Child the last team member standing against her chaotic, earth-shattering force, the world may be on the brink of disaster! That is if the Alphans in Ottawa defending Parliament Hill from Roxxon’s corrupt and power-hungry agents don’t destroy it, first! When Walter Langkowski, SASQUATCH, taps into his demonically-enhanced abilities against his foes, he’ll find TANARAQ, the Great Beast of Death, waiting to alter their arrangement…and be given the power needed to end this assault once and for all! One small problem: he’s made the same deal with Wild Child…and whoever misses out on this offer will be depowered by the Great Beast, for good!

32 PGS./Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #10

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“CRASHING THE NET”

What do you do when your team, Canada’s premier superheroes ALPHA FLIGHT, have been having the worst month ever? When your pseudo-niece has had her strength and speed enhanced ten-fold, but terraforms the ground beneath her feet unwillingly? When your best friend’s made a deal with a northern demon and gotten fuzzier and muskier than ever thought possible? You just keep bouncing, trading barbs, and paying for the first round, Eugene Judd! Take a look inside the life of the one and only PUCK, as he goes through training exercises with his enhanced teammates and friends, mediates a Parliament Hill-shaking argument between Heather Hudson and the Prime Minister himself, and takes a solo mission to the town of Nipissing, Ontario to personally stop some meandering Roxxon agents! But there are big surprises in store…as Mac Hudson announces his intentions to retire from the field, and offers the GUARDIAN suit to our acrobatic underdog!

* Get well soon, Mr. Templeton! Canada and AoM sends its well wishes for a quick recovery!\*

32PGS./Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #11

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“THE SUMMER SPENT INDOORS”

As Mac prepares for retirement, and her mountain of paperwork grows ever higher, Vindicator-turned-Department H Director HEATHER HUDSON decides it’s time to leave the desk behind and head back out into the field! And she’ll have company in the form of SNOWBIRD, who’s been feeling cooped up, too: with her RCMP training being neglected and her new beau Walter Langowski, the SASQUATCH, in seemingly unending quarantine, Snowbird is ready to throw on a uniform and hit the streets! But the ladies of Alpha Flight may have stumbled onto more than they bargained for, when Heather opens up the cold case of MARRINA’S clone fiasco…leading them to the decommissioned Diefenbunker, and the mysterious Department G! The secrets of bureaucracy are revealed, as Vindicator and Snowbird head into the heart of the self-sustaining artificial intelligence of the Department, only to come face-to-face with clones of their fellow Alphans!

32 pgs/Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #12

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“THE ONCE AND FUTURE GUARDIAN”

With his retirement from active field duty looming, James Macdonald Hudson, the GUARDIAN, decides to don the red-and-white one last time…to investigate the remains of the artificially intelligent, clone-creating Department G! But when Mac journeys deep into the heart of the bunker, torn apart thanks to SNOWBIRD and VINDICATOR, he’ll discover a message from former Alphan associate ROGER BOCHS: there’s a decades-old plan in place to wrest control of the country away from its people…and into the hands of robotic overlords! And as Department G begins to tumble down around him, Mac will have to move fast to return to Department H, and save his teammates from the cybernetic Omega Guardians, who possess his electro-magnetic abilities! And, we take a look forward to fifteen years from now (see ALPHA FLIGHT #0) as the woman wearing the Guardian suit saves the apocalyptic city of Toronto from demonically-enhanced cyborgs! It’s the flash forward of a lifetime as the cryokinetic Guardian stands alone!

32 PGS/Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #13

Written by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“THE TELEPHONE GAME” Part 1 of 3 “HOUSE CALLS”

Secrets…lies…potential destruction…just another day in the political world. And as the Alphans bounce back from Guardian’s revelation, of a potential government overhaul led by sinister cybernetic beings, they’ll have to roll up their sleeves and dive head first into bureaucracy! Heather and Mac Hudson sit down with every member of Parliament to discuss their history and potential motives, Shaman and Sasquatch begin sifting through old Department H records dating all the way back to Canada’s formation, and Puck, Snowbird and sole Beta Flight recruit Strongarm take a phone call from Montreal…and fall into the sights of crime lord and death-dealer DEADLY ERNEST! And when Ernest states his knowledge of the robotic revolution, he and the Alphans will find themselves confronted by a foe long thought destroyed…Jerome Jaxon’s former accomplice, the android DELPHINE COURTNEY!

32pgs/Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT vs. VIEWTIFUL JOE #14

Written by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“THE TELEPHONE GAME” Part 2 of 3 “REALITY, FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”

It’s the most chaotic of confrontations, and confusing of collaborations, yet as Alphans Puck and Snowbird, alongside Beta Flight member Strongarm, team up with Montreal’s most dangerous criminal mastermind, DEADLY ERNEST! And it’s only a foe from the past which could call for such an occasion….namely the villainous sidekick-turned-renegade android DELPHINE COURTNEY! But as the real world gets a whole lot stranger, Courtney will subject the heroes and Ernest to a dose of virtual reality…where they’ll have to face off against her computerized construct, the agile, energetic, combo-stacking VIEWTIFUL JOE! He’s not malicious, vicious, or evil, he just wants to win. And if he does, it means game over for our heroes! Meanwhile, back in Ottawa, Sasquatch and Shaman will unfurl plans reaching beyond Canada’s borders…poring over the schematics of ROGER BOCHS, they’ll discover just how wide this cybernetic threat stretches! And when they get a sudden distress call from Bochs warning them that the plan is already in place (see INVADERS INITIATIVE #14), they’ll have to move fast to save…well, it all!

32 pgs/Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #15

Written by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by TY TEMPLETON

“THE TELEPHONE GAME” Part 3 of 3 “FACE-TO-FACE”

Freed from their virtual reality game of cat-and-mouse, Snowbird, Puck, Strongarm and their surprise accomplice Deadly Ernest will have to face the mad android DELPHINE COURTNEY! But it’s not (just) a technological threat they face…as Courtney reveals her hostage, former Beta Flight member Wild Child, whose essence of the Great Beasts is being extracted directly into her robotic mainframe! It’s a mash of sorcery and cybernetics unlike anything the Flight has faced before! And as Deadly Ernest calls in his superhuman agents, the cryokinetic Silver and pyrokinetic Auric, Snowbird will send a distress call to her fellow Alphans…with no reply. Guardian and Vindicator teleported to parts unknown, Sasquatch and Shaman scrambling to head across the Atlantic…and Marrina staring down the Prime Minister, who’s holding a Plodexian gun to her head!

32 PGS./Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #16

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“EARTH”

With her teammates scattered across the country, an old foe re-emerged, and new powers which have proven uncontrollable, this is the very last thing Alpha Flight’s resident amphibious alien MARRINA needs…as she has a Plodexian cannon aimed straight at her head, with the Prime Minister himself holding his finger on the trigger! But Newfoundland’s favourite adopted daughter will not go down without a fight, as Marrina lashes out against the Prime Minister with her terraforming abilities, and shakes the earth to its very core! And with the murder of the country’s top politician not an option (oh, and questions to be asked, of course) she’ll have to tread lightly to keep Department H from falling down around their heads! With little recourse, Marrina will find herself at the mercy of the gun…but as her life flashes before her eyes, her Plodexian biology will kick in. She does not die, she becomes stronger, she becomes merciless. And with her biology changing once more and her terraforming abilities under control for the first time in months, Marrina will land a killing blow…only to stand over the corpse of the MASTER OF THE WORLD!

32 PGS./Rated T+...$2.99

ALPHA FLIGHT #17

Written by TY TEMPLETON

Plot by SUPERCOOPER

Art by BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY

“THE B TEAM”

When the first line of defense for the nation is gone…With more than one distress call coming from her fellow Alphans, to save Switzerland, to save the future, to save Department H, Northern goddess SNOWBIRD will have no choice but to send Puck away from this fray and into another! And with the threat of the frantic android DELPHINE COURTNEY, powered by Plodex technologies and Great Beast mystical energies alike, still looming, shell have to rally the rookies: cybernetic soldier STRONGARM, the repowered WILD CHILD, and Deadly Ernest’s pyrokinetic and cryokinetic powerhouses AURIC and SILVER! But as the team begins to struggle against Courtney’s overwhelming might, and her spirit tied to the land, Snowbird will send her Beta Flight away to assist Puck and the others…and drag Delphine Courtney with her into the spirit world to end this fight, no matter the cost!

32 PGS./Rated T+...$2.99