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| My thoughts on this series as a whole have not entirely been formed yet, at least not so far as I
would feel comfortable making them public. But anyway, I highly doubt that you came here to read what it is that I
may or may not have thought. Take note that the following summaries are not mine, in an attempt to get some major holes filled, I have stolen The following issue summaries from here, they were originally written by Robert Diehl as a part of Chronology.Net. This information is being reproduced without permission of the authors. I intend to replace these with summaries of my own creation, but until then... | ||
| Issues Owned: | -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 81, 94, 105, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126 |
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February, 1985 | #19 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Keith Williams | |
Turn Again, Turn Again, Time in Thy Flight... Michael determines that the evil (previous iss.) is still active, and that he indeed must go back 100 years to when Lucas put it in motion. Snowbird arrives and bows to Elizabeth, acknowledging her as the fulfillment of an ancient prophesy: the one who binds all evil. Michael has her pull a coronet from his medicine bag, and she is transformed into Talisman. Michael transports himself, Elizabeth, Judd, and Snowbird back to Calgary in 1884. They find Chase and Lucas forcing an Indian to conjure up Ranaq. Protected by Talismans, they force Ranaq to give them women and money. Ranaq fools Chase into removing his talisman and possesses him. Snowbird and Elizabeth attack him. The old Indian gets Lucas to shoot Ranaq's host body with a piece of talisman, killing him. They bury the body on the site of Ft. Calgary, where it will be discovered in 100 years (iss. 14). | |||
| #20 | March, 1985 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Keith Williams | |
Gold and Love Affairs! Walter clears some land for a new sanitarium, and Aurora arrives with new couture and coiffure and
modified powers, and flirts with the construction workers. Snowbird and Michael try to explain to Elizabeth
her prophesied role. She is reluctant to be a messiah, but finds she is unable to remove her coronet. Michael
notes Judds growing affection for Heather and encourages him. Walter and Aurora go to an isolated family
mansion of his, preparing it as a new base for the team. They find it inhabited. Walter is abducted, and Aurora
put in darkness, forcing her to struggle with her Jeanne-Marie personality. She escapes into a room containing
the gold statues of Walters great-aunts eight husbands, which she realizes are alive. She bumps into Gilded Lily,
who takes her to Walter, likewise transformed into a golden statue. | |||
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April, 1985 | #21 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Bob Wiacek | |
Love Wrought New Alchemy. Gilded Lily tells her story: a hundred years ago in Transylvania, her husband was killed in a carriage accident, and she wandered to Diablos castle. He nursed her back to health, revealed himself as a thousand year-old alchemist, and became her lover until the local villagers rebelled, sealing him inside his lab. Lily escaped to England, researched alchemy until she learned to transform things to gold, and then got revenge on Diablos attackers by marrying them and turning them to gold statues. Walter wakes and transforms to Sasquatch, which breaks him out of his coating of gold. Snowbird is attacked by her own gods, and does not know why. Walter attacks Lily just as she is about to dip Jeanne-Marie into liquid gold. Lily turns out to be mostly robot, and when Walter lifts her mask, she dissolves to powder, as does the house around them. | |||
| #22 | May, 1985 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Bob Wiacek | |
Rub-Out Jeanne-Marie, half-frozen, shows up at her brothers door. It seems she came out of her Aurora personality and fled from Walter, flying all the way to Quebec, which power had previously been Auroras. Heather sees Mac in a crowd in Vancouver, alive. Northstar and Jeanne-Marie answer his old terrorist friend Clementines request for help. It seems Pearl the fat lady wants to take over the circus. She attacks and subdues all three of them. Jeffries has perfected Bochs Box, allowing him to physically fuse with the machine, but he cannot stay inside for long, or the fusion will become permanent. Pearl is using the circus to get close enough to bomb a meeting of the Prime Minister of Canada and the US President. Aurora (back in control and now able to glow) and Northstar attack, and Bones accidentally plunges a knife into Pearl, knocking her unconscious. Aurora threatens to tell Alpha Flight of Northstars terrorist past. (He was a Separatiste, who wanted the independence of Quebec from the rest of Canada.) | |||
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June, 1985 | #23 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Bob Wiacek | |
Night of the Beast The gods order Snowbird to battle Sasquatch, one of the seven great beasts. Heather is recuperating from seeing her dead husband alive (see last iss.). Caliber attacks Vancouver, and Alpha Flight stops him. Walter is wounded in the shoulder in process, and is then immediately attacked by Snowbird. Snowbird explains that Walters original experiment did not transform him Hulk-like, but opened a door to Tanaraq. Snowbird transforms herself into another Sasquatch and rips his heart out. Walter lies there, dead, and Snowbird explains the only way to save his spirit is to enter the Kingdom of the Beasts. | |||
| #25 | August, 1985 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Bob Wiacek | |
And Graves Give Up Their Dead The team begin to confront Northstar, Aurora had told them he was a terrorist when the're interrupted by a fight between Caliber and Mac downtown. Elizabeth mystically dissolves Caliber's armor, leaving him in the street in his skivvies. Mac tells this story of how he avoided death: to avoid exploding with Heather in the room, he quickly reconfigured his suit to open a dimensional rift. So he didn't die, but was transported to Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, where aliens called Quwrlln saved his life. He learned he had been transported 10,000 years into the past, as well. So he gets the Quwrlln to put him into suspended animation. He wakes, finds a space ship nearby, which takes him back to earth. After splash down in the Pacific, he swims to Canada, steals clothes, and bumps into Heather in Vancouver (iss. 22) whom he is unable to face since the aliens in saving his life melded his body with his suit, so he is now partly machine. Aurora is not sure she loves Walter, now that his human body is gone. | |||
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October, 1985 | #27 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| John Byrne | John Byrne | Keith Williams | |
Betrayal Omega Flight gloats over having defeated half the team. Roger has built an interdimensional scanner to find a new body for Walter. Michael and Snowbird feel that Elizabeth is being tortured and go to aid her with Aurora and Walter. Delphine poses as Mac again and convinces them everything is okay. He finds that Michael is carrying Smart Alec in his medicine bag (see iss. 13) and takes it from him. Accidentally, he releases the void within the bag, which begins expanding and sucks Alpha Flight inside. Michael sends Elizabeth in to retrieve the rest, but is interrupted by Delphine before he can get Elizabeth herself back. The void collapses back within the bag, trapping her. | |||
| #29 | December, 1985 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | Mike Mignola | Gerry Talaoc | |
Cut Bait & Run! Hulk smash Box. Jeffries helps Roger get out of Box, and Judd and Heather (!) battle the Hulk, while Aurora fears that they have lost Walter forever and Michael loses faith in himself. The Hulk smashes his way out of the building and leaps away. The team regroups and goes after the Hulk, to stop him from smashing Vancouver. The Hulk tears Box to pieces, and when Northstar and Aurora touch hands, they cancel all the powers (a side-effect of Walters experiments, iss. 17). Snowbird arrives, transforms to a sasquatch, and with the help of the army convinces Hulk to leap away. She pursues him to the US border. Gary Cody arrives, announcing that Dept. H has been reestablished with funding. | |||
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April, 1986 | #33 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | Sal Buscema | Gerry Talaoc | |
A Friend in Need Marrina, still a monster (since iss. 16) flees Attumas vessel. She screams with abdominal pains, which are sympathetically felt by Snowbird. Heather flies across Canada to the X-Men in Westchester and is knocked out by Magneto, attacking from reflex. Storm leaves her in Wolverines hands. Heather explains that she wants Wolverine to teach her to fight, and they reminisce. A feral Logan had attacked Heather and Mac on their honeymoon, and they shot him dead, but he got better. Mac went for help, while Heather stayed with Logan. They both saw his claws for the first time, which put Logan in such a state that Heather just held him all night to comfort him. He was adopted by them, until he realized she would not leave Mac for him, so he left, instead. Wolverine tells her that being a hero does not mean having powers, and just then they are attacked by Deathstrikes samurai. | |||
| #35 | June, 1986 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | David Ross | Gerry Talaoc | |
The Child Is Father to the Man Attuma wants to use Marrina as bait to lure Namor, and she is still having abdominal pains. Judd professes his fondness for Heather, who, still shocked by the realization that Mac manipulated Wolverine and herself, is reluctant to get involved with another man. He chalks it up to his dwarfism. Returning to Mansion Alpha, they find Snowbird ill, mad as a bear, and calling for Michael to help her. Michael is off in Eskimo territory, being tested by the spirits of caribou, mosquitoes, a wide-mouth bass, and wolves. He bests them all and is given a new costume by Elizabeth, who had been his real tester. His final test is to vanquish the skeletons of Vikings, who centuries before had killed his ancestors. Michael no longer uses a medicine bag, but draws forth Eaglet, his familiar, and calls on other spirits to defeat the skeletons. He then returns to the mansion to aid Snowbird. | |||
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July, 1986 | #36 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | David Ross | Gerry Talaoc | |
Labor Pains Snowbird hunts a rabbit, but is unable to eat it. Michael explains that she is expecting a baby. Byrrah breaks into Avengers mansion to find Namor and tell him that Attuma has seized Atlantis. Namor resigns from the Avengers and returns to the sea. Judd tells Thompson how Snowbird was born (see iss. 7), and he cries out that he does not want a baby, just his wife back. He tries to take her to a regular hospital, but the team stops him. Michael examines Snowbird and realizes her son must be born in a place of power. Neither the house spirits nor the gods will help him find a suitable spot, but Dr. Strange does. However, this place of power actually houses Pestilence. | |||
| #37 | August, 1986 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | David Ross | Gerry Talaoc | |
Death Birth In 1848, Pestilence was a ships captain leading an expedition to the frozen north. Desperate for food, he led his dying men across the tundra, and before he died himself he drank an elixir to preserve himself until spring. But his men buried him, thinking him dead, and he remained trapped beneath the permafrost. Aurora flirts with Roger while Alpha Flight flies to a place of power to deliver Snowbirds baby. They are met by Elizabeth, has developed a decidedly haughty attitude. The gods appear, giving Snowbird a last chance to join them, but she wants to remain human. Spirits of decay attack the baby, and Elizabeth prevents Michael or any spirits from helping. She wants him to be shown up as a failure, like he failed her mother and herself. Pestilence lives again through Snowbirds baby, and when Elizabeth steps in to save the day, she finds she cannot stop him, since he was never dead and is not a spirit. Pestilence removes her tiara, returning her humanity and removing her power. Namor arrives in Atlantis to fight Attuma and rescue Marrina. | |||
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September, 1986 | #38 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | David Ross | Gerry Talaoc | |
Pestilence Namor fights Attumas forces alone and is overcome. The Atlanteans do not want Marrina as their queen, since she is an alien monster. Namor goes to the Avengers for aid, sending Byrrah to Alpha Flight. Pestilence takes Macs face to deter Heather from attacking him, but she belts him one, anyway. Judd pulls him under the ice, and he and Heather free the team. Snowbird becomes a sasquatch to fight Pestilence, but he controls all the great beasts, and they attack. Michael dons Elizabeths tiara to become Talisman, and he banishes the great beasts, except for the Snowbird Sasquatch, who attacks Pestilence, who flees underground, still possessing Thompson and Snowbirds baby. | |||
| #39 | October, 1986 |  | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | David Ross | Wilce Portacio | |
The Invasion of Atlantis! Alpha Flight ignores direct orders from the Canadian government and goes to attack Atlantis. Snowbird regrets having chosen to remain human, and Thompson storms off without her, going after their son. Atlantis fires the first shot, blowing the Omnijet out of the sky. After an underwater skirmish, Alpha Flight meets up with the Avengers and plans to rescue Marrina. They are together surrounded by Attumas forces, and the story continues in Avengers 272). | |||
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November, 1986 | #40 | |
| Writer | Pencils | Inks | |
| Bill Mantlo | David Ross | Wilce Portacio | |
Love Marrina has fled in shame, Namor follows her, and Northstar follows him. Marrina suspects that she has been impregnated (see iss. 16. Note: her race is here designated Plodex). Namor finds her and decides to marry her and raise her brood as his own. They are then attacked by Marrinas mate (iss. 16), which she is uncontrollably drawn to. Alpha Flight attacks them both. Marrina overcomes her genetic programming and rejects her mate. This restores her from her monstrous state, and it turns out she was never pregnant but just fertile. Alpha Flight kills the other Plodex, and all repair to Namors villa, where his followers have already gathered under Lord Vashti. Namor declares it his new kingdom, Deluvia, and weds Marrina. | |||
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