Trivia / Alpha Flight

• Creator Backlash: John Byrne against his successor, Bill Mantlo. While he was never fond of the idea of putting Heather into Mac's battlesuit, Byrne was especially upset with the handling of Puck. Byrne had always intended Puck to be a dwarf naturally, due to achondroplasia, and the pain he suffered is a legitimate side-effect of that condition. Instead, Mantlo introduced the concept of Puck being a mystic prison for a demon, and his dwarfism was the result of that curse. Though Mantlo shouldn't be held entirely responsible for the concept; Chris Claremont introduced the "curse" aspect (and Judd's "true" height) in the X-Men/Alpha Flight miniseries; Mantlo simply came up with the explanation for it.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Alpha Flight Vol.1 ran for 130 issues, but only 36 of them are available in collections or digital comics - the initial John Byrne run, a handful of tie-in issues for Crisis Crossover events, and the issue where Northstar comes out as Marvel's first gay hero.
  • Alpha Flight Vol.2 ran for 21 issues, none of which have been collected or republished as digital comics.
• Referenced by...: Oversaturated World: Group Precipitation: "Look! Up in the Sky! by FoME, Masterweaver, and archonix": In Masterweaver's section, Sonata, a aquatic being turned humanoid, during a discussion about comics, has a "Marrina Was Innocent" button on her clothes, presumably referencing the death of Marrina and how she's not a villain.
  • Bob and George had George and the friends he had in his homeworld in a government-created team called Delta Flight, whose roster includes a psychic, a cryomancer, and is led by a Cyclops ripoff.

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