Episode 245: The Alpha Flight Episode

All My Xs, our miniseries on Marvel Comics' X-Men, takes a little detour to introduce the Canadian superteam Alpha Flight in 1979's Uncanny X-Men #120-#121 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne and 1983's Alpha Flight #1 by John Byrne!

First, the Canadian government wants Wolverine back – and if his friends in the X-Men get in the way, well, too bad for them!

Next, Alpha Flight gets their own ongoing title, just in time to lose their government funding! And to make matters worse, they still have to deal with the gargantuan menace of Tundra!

Can the X-Men stop a group of government agents from forcibly detaining one of their own citizens? Can Curt and Kevin keep from saying "eh" every other sentence? And can Canada's premier team of heroes take off to that Great White North known as … The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

· Curt makes a correction – and recounts a dream

· Why Alpha Flight are better than the Avengers

· Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas: Revised & Updated Edition

· Final Destination Bloodlines

· X-Men #106

· Alpha Flight #16

· Uncanny X-Men #118-119

Join us in two weeks as we look at the wedding of Northstar in Astonishing X-Men #51 (and his official coming out in Alpha Flight #106)!

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