Did Louise Simonson get paid by the word? Ten pages into this issue and I was already ready for a nap. It’s the most boring comic book I can remember reading–Spidey and Marrina (from Alpha Flight) get kidnapped by an alien collecting lifeforms, including some Superman might want in his zoo, and Alpha Flight shows up to help them.
Actually, Alpha Flight shows up to bicker. According to John Byrne, Northstar was always supposed to be gay but Byrne isn’t writing this issue so one has to wonder if another possibility was he was supposed to have the hots for his sister, Aurora.
Most of the issue is spent with Northstar acting like a perv in regards to her.
If I never read another Alpha Flight comic again, it’ll be way too soon. What a miserable time.
Amusingly, Simonson seems to get it–Spidey comments on their lame behavior.
