Alpha Flight

Marvel Comics let loose a few key announcements at Fan Expo Canada this weekend, including the news that Fred Van Lente and Kyle Hotz were teaming for the five-issue Destroyers series, that Brian Wood would be writing an unspecified project for Marvel in 2012, and that Van Lente, Greg Pak and Dale Eaglesham's Alpha Flight has been upgraded to an ongoing...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Life after death ^ Up in the North % Construction equipment ¢ Fright night * ^ ¢ ALPHA FLIGHT #1 Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and Dale Eaglesham are behind this 8-issue miniseries, which I believe is the fourth attempt at giving these Canadians their own series, if you don't count Omega Fli

Canada, frozen paradise beyond the safety of America's northern borders. Once more comics fans are invited to visit this land of wonders and mysteries with the latest Alpha Flight series, which relaunches with Alpha Flight 0.1 in comic stores this week...

Even if it's a sweeping generalization, Canadians have been doing pretty okay with the "nice" label for awhile. This summer even the friendliest Great White Northerners will be faced with the influence of Fear Itself, however, pitting the latest incarnation of Alpha Flight against its own government...