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suzene (suzene) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-02 19:11:00

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char: northstar/jean-paul beaubier, creator: joe madureira, in-joke: context is for the weak

Marvel Comics Presents (vol 1) #92
Title: Marvel Comics Presents - "Separate Allies" (Marvel, 1991, 8 pages)
Creators: Karl Bollers/Antonio Matias (writers), Joe Madureira (pencils)
Availability: Out of print

Another book that's in my collection only because it had Northstar in it. Instead of a cameo, he gets his own story dealing with the fallout both from his Olympic scandal and his days in the FLQ. Ambitious for a little eight-pager, and, keeping the limitation of length in mind, it doesn't come off too badly,

Northstar is observing a skiing competition to benefit charity. As a member of Alpha Flight and a former skiing champion himself, he's an object of interest to the attending media. This doesn't sit well with a former rival.

The figure at the bar is a former member of the same FLQ cell Northstar abandoned. He's seeking vengeance and he's set a bomb on the slopes. OH NOES!

The bomb goes off, causing an avalanche!

Sorry, Richelieu, but no one's allowed to out-dickery our Northstar and his Mullet of DOOM!

I actually didn't recognize the artist until I read that last page and got to the reporter's "my hips won't unsway!" pose. I got into X-Men comics on the Lobdell/Madureira run, so it tickled me a bit to see Joe Mad's baby pictures, so to speak.

Also, context is for the weak:

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raattgift
2009-04-04 04:26 pm UTC (link)

I think it's safe to say that whoever drew this had never been to Calgary in winter.

Everyone is underdressed, pretty much nobody's wearing a hat, nobody's breath is visible, big clumpy snow is falling vertically in a wind that is making ponytails and scarves fly horizontally, the cameraman is gloveless and rolls up his sleeves... Winter does not work that way!

On top of that, they aren't really in Calgary, since avelanche conditions won't be found until you go almost 200 km west, although there is the freestyle park at Calgary Olympic Park, which is almost as flat as how the hill Richelieu's on is drawn... (it only has 120 metres of vertical drop)

That the baddie on the ski hill is called Glissant is amusing. Or perhaps Northstar is just asking for lube.

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