(NOTE: I don’t know how to get the funky umlauts and don’t have the time to learn this week. Thank you for your grace. – Chris)

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! And on this day of days we bring you issue 50: a double-sized offering in which three Alphans depart the team, two of whom get their pasts rather aggressively reimagined. And Loki’s here. There’s a lot going on.

In this episode, Chris:

• brings up the Siege Perilous, which Tom definitely didn’t see coming
• and then almost rage quits over the Knapp/Kara Killgrave…escalations
• gets real excited during some listener mail that mentions Emo Philips (Chris again: And with good reason! He’s still touring and I strongly recommend catching a show while you can. I am a proud Emophiliac.)

and Tom:

• misses some obvious Shakespeare jokes: he’ll do better next time
• and then almost rage quits over the Knapp/Kara Killgrave…escalations
• gives Mantlo some due; not flowers, but a curt nod

Issue covered:

Alpha Flight #50 – “This Mortal Coil” – cover date September 1987
Writer is Bill Mantlo
Artists are June Brigman and Whilce Portacio
Letterer is Janice Chiang
Colorer is Bob Sharen
Editor is Carl Potts and 
Editor in Chief is Jim Shooter

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