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[v_various]

A wealth of Namor and North Star from a post I made back in the days of lj.



Context really is for the weak, I can't quite remember the original write up or order. But they all come from my cracky Alpha Flight collection! I love you AF!


So, there's this:


I have that one where everyone can see it. Here is a page from that comic:


Northstar does not know how to be your herto boyfriend.

These are from a different issue:





My, what ever will Aurora do?


Can you believe this passed for subtle? This is from the "we never SAID he was gay" years.



These are from an issue where he Namor is looking for Marrina. I can't even.







I would like to point out, Northstar just swam between Naomr's legs. Look at the bubble trail. Second thing, why is Northstar even comparing Namor's romantic love to the love he has for his sister?!

Here is something from yet another issue, a bit a bonus Shaman dickery.



Hey everyone, listen to this bit of private medical information about your teammate! Also, (and picture this said in the same dramatic fashion) Northstar totally has AIDS!

okay, so that second part never happened. The writing team later decided Northstar didn't actually have aids, he was "homesick". Also, a fairy.


And this, just for fun. Have you ever bought a comic just for the cover? I'm sure you have. We all have.







Suggested tags:
char:northstar/jean-paul_beaubier
char:sub-mariner/namor_mckenzie
(Namor Mckenzie? What?)
char:aurora/jeanne-marie_beaubier
group:alpha_flight
publisher:marvel_comics

Comments

[hyperactivator]

Poor Namor doesn't know if he wants to be the pimp or the ho on that cover.

[rordulum]

Look at that. As soon as Namor's got Sue, he loses interest, and would rather grope random Atlantian women. No wonder she won't leave Reed.

[crabby_lioness]

There is crack, and there is Alpha Flight crack. It's a cut above -- Michigan.

[jeyl]

"I don't understand...?"

We're ok with that.

[skalja]

Man, woobie!Namor is the greatest. And I've READ that issue of Namor, but I barely remember it -- I think it's part of the "Llyra diguises herself as Susan and sleeps with Namor while getting herself pregnant by Namor's human half-nephew who looks a lot like Namor so that when Namor realizes he's slept with Llyra not Susan he will think that her son Llyron is his even though he is (at this point in continuity) sterile so that Llyra can put Llyron on the throne" plotline. Yeaaah, that was the Dork Age of the title.

To answer your question amongst the tags, Namor's father's name is Leonard McKenzie. I can only assume that "Namor McKenzie" is the/a name he uses above water but not below it, since I can't imagine the Atlanteans giving a crap about what his surface-dweller dad's name was.

[shadowpsykie]

mmm Puck is so sexy.....

what?... leave me alone!

[ormardu.blogspot.com]

It's not just you.... yum body fuzz....

[suzene]

Mantlo wrote a very inconsistent Northstar. One issue he's the Aloof Canadian Ice Prince who doesn't care what people think of him, the next it's "Hey, pay attention to me, Marrina's boyfriend!" Even in this cross-over, one panel, he's telling Heather where she can shove her "nature wins over nurture" theory, the next he's following her orders without a murmur.

Also didn't care for his turning Heather Hudson from a badass normal and obvious choice to succeed Mac to "Shut up, Heather!" who whines about not having powers and flips her lid at anything that reminds her of her dead husband, then jumps right into his old suit.

I did like Kara, though.

[his-spiffyness.livejournal.com]

Kara is great! I really wish they would do more with her. Didn't she turn up in San Francisco before they got the asteroid?

[suzene]

I'm a big fan of her manifestation freak-out. ;) And, fortunately, she survived contact with Frank Tieri and appears to still be around.