scans_daily: Minor Comic Book News

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@ 2009-12-13 09:18 pm UTC

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char: northstar/jean-paul beaubier, title: alpha flight, title: elfquest

Minor Comic Book News

A couple of things.

For the five people on this comm who I haven't already pushed this link on, Tim Fish is doing a Northstar short in Nation-X #2, coming out next month.

Also, Richard Pini reports that the script to the Elfquest movie has been finished. Not much meat there, so here's the movie news timeline.

From Alpha Flight #1 (available in trade)

From Alpha Flight #22 (out of print)

From X-Men/Alpha Flight: The Gift (available in multiple trades)

I don't need to point out the fail here, do I?

*Yes, I know about the mouth-to-mouth with Paulie Provenzano, but so far as I'm concerned, hackneyed, homophobic jokes don't count.

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baihu
2009-12-14 06:53 am UTC (link)

In, what was later massively retconned, story arc. Northstar, who was mysteriously ill for some time, was suppose to come out and say he had AIDS. Higher ups intervened and what was the result was he said he was a fairy. Literal and very thinly shielded double entendre.

After that, naturally a retcon and it is never spoken off again ever. Or I'm assuming that. I haven't located the panel itself, but the panel should be up somewhere, and what few alpha flight books I got is prior to this.

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suzene
2009-12-14 07:03 am UTC (link)

He didn't actually get called a fairy in Alpha Flight #50, he was supposed to be a half-elf (which doesn't take away from the fact that yeah, it was a crap story and would have been one even without the rewrite of epic fail). The "he's not gay, he's just a fairy!" came from other corners.

When he actually came out about fifty issues later, there wasn't anything about him being a fairy -- literally or otherwise -- which was what it seemed like you were referencing.

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	no subject baihu 2009-12-14 07:08 am UTC (link)
	Obviously I was referencing the original fiasco, since it was a just freaking ridiculous idea to pull out as a last minute sub. Or maybe it was done out of pure spite for the editor. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject suzene 2009-12-14 07:15 am UTC (link)
	Jim "There Are No Homosexual Characters In The Marvel Universe" Shooter was EIC at the time, so no big mystery there. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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