This is the kind of thing that always bothered me about Alpha Flight. It didn’t seem genuine. They just used a number of Canadian stereotypes and the writer’s didn’t have much first hand knowledge about Canada. Going back to the issues now, this results in comics hilarity, as you will come to find out as I take on single issues.
Wow, check out how hard it was to faithfully reproduce Canada in the dark pre-Internet days of 1989. Alpha Flight’s editorial team relied on faithful fans for reference.
Nowadays, Google Earth can show you license plate numbers on cars in North Africa, and yet every Marvel book from the Avengers to Guardians of the Galaxy take place in scenery alarmingly similar to the 5-square-block radius of their 40th street offices.
Seriously, name a Marvel book from the past 5 years, I can point out the exact location of at least one major scene.
Ask me about Silent War No. 1! I can name the pizzeria on the street corner Black Bolt is posing in front of!
In a recent Heroic Age promo, even Captain Britain leaves his homeland unprotected from mystic menaces so he can pose for the Times Square gawkers.
Who says this isn’t the Marvel age of irony?
Well to be fair, Warren Ellis still has Logan saying “eh” every 5 seconds in Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis No. 3, but nothing about that series isn’t god-awful.
