Alpha Flight - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:34:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alpha Flight - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Alpha Flight inventory story revealed in recent art auction https://comicsxf.com/2026/03/10/alpha-flight-inventory-story-revealed-in-recent-art-auction/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56221 True North writer Daryl Richard Lawrence discovers a page from an Alpha Flight inventory story and sets out to determine its origin.

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]]> 56221 Absolute Batman learns the truth about Ark M as X-Men returns to the present in our Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/07/absolute-batman-learns-the-truth-about-ark-m-as-x-men-returns-to-the-present-in-our-staff-picks/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55475 The origins of the enigmatic Ark M are explored! What terrible secrets lie within its walls, and just who is assigned to protect it from discovery?

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]]> 55475 INTERVIEW: Writer Daryl Lawrence talks True North, the issue-by-issue guide to Alpha Flight https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/27/daryl-lawrence-true-north-alpha-flight/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53135 In True North, out July 1, writer and Alpha Flight superfan Daryl Lawrence has written the definitive issue-by-issue accounting of the first volume of everyone’s favorite Canadian super team. As a fellow devotee of the “one issue at a time” approach to comic book analysis, I reached out to Daryl to ask him about the...

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]]> 53135 Battle Of The Atom: Canada Day with Anna Peppard https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/08/battle-of-the-atom-canada-day-with-anna-peppard/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49510 We were going to release this on Canada Day, but that darn novel coronavirus got in the way. Anyway, Anna is here and we are going to talk about John Byrne a lot. Ranked This Episode

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]]> 49510 Krakoa North falls in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Alpha Flight #5 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/30/alpha-flight-5-preview/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47280 For an indeterminate amount of comic book time, the members of Alpha Flight have been harboring mutant refugees in a secret Canadian base they dubbed Krakoa North, from which they intended to transport them to safety on the Shi’ar throneworld of Chandilar. But due to some antsy mutants, the Canadian government has found Krakoa North...

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]]> 47280 OK, who let Heather out in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Alpha Flight #4 https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/10/alpha-flight-4-preview/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47097 The last time we saw Heather Hudson, aka Vindicator, her husband Mac, aka Guardian, had trapped her in a Department H simulation to restore her mental health or something, in a story in 2019’s Alpha Flight: True North anthology written by – gasp – Ed Brisson. Welp, apparently at some point in the past four...

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]]> 47097 The Uncanny Avengers reassemble and the X-Men get Dark again in this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/16/the-uncanny-avengers-reassemble-and-the-x-men-get-dark-again-in-this-weeks-staff-picks/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46263 Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Uncanny Avengers #1: Innocent people and world leaders are dead after simultaneous attacks on the U.S. and Krakoan governments, and that means one thing: It’s time for a new iteration of Steve Rogers’...

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]]> 46263 Wolverine Sends Things Out With a Stab in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/16/wolverine-sends-things-out-with-a-stab-in-heroes-reborn-weapon-x-final-flight-1/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29614 Behold the last stand of the Canuckleheads in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1. Written by Ed Brisson, drawn by Roland Bosch, colored by Chris O’Halloran, and lettered by Cory Petit Ed Brisson and company send readers out with a brutal bang in Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight #1. Providing us...

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]]> 29614 The Hulk Just Can’t Catch a Break in Immortal Hulk #44 https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/10/the-hulk-just-cant-catch-a-break-in-immortal-hulk-44/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=22609 The U-Foes bring the fight to our poor weakened Hulk as his haphazard crew make a startling discovery in Immortal Hulk #44 written by Al Ewing, pencilled by Joe Bennett, inked by Ruy José and Belardino Brabo. with colors by Paul Mounts, and letters by Cory Petit. Cori McCreery: Hiya Zach! Nice to see y’all...

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