Alpha Waves
Blog posts will announce new episodes and news pertinent to the Why Not?! Podcast
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Episode 45: Bill, Adieu
Well, we’ve come to the end of Bill Mantlo’s run on Alpha Flight and, folks, he absolutely saved his best issue for last. It’s a wild and, frankly, incredibly well-accomplished issue as Manikin confronts his creator. Both a super-smart metacommentary and just an all-around solid story, it’s quite the issue to go out on. In
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Episode 44: Keep Alpha Flight Weird!
In our penultimate episode covering Bill Mantlo’s run on Alpha Flight things. get. weird. But quite interesting, too, as Wanda works some things out and Madison, well, Madison discovers the past isn’t always done with you. Really interesting episodes but just kinda weird, too. But, hey, that’s not such a bad thing is it? Issues discussed:
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Episode 43: All My Life I Wanted To Be A Supervillain
Episode 43: “All My Life I Wanted To Be a Supervillain” We cover two issues this week and, holy hell, we have…a GOOD TIME?!?! Two very different issues focusing on two of our least explored AF members (Kara and Madison) by both Bill Mantlo and the writer soon to replace him, James Hudnall. And while
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Episode 42: Wanda and the Kids
Episode 42: “Wanda and the Kids” It’s our somewhat delayed coverage of issue 61 and, yeah, getting sick really throws a wrench in things. But! It’s a great issue as Heather and Jeffries spar with Canadian MPs over Alpha Flight’s direction and Wanda and Beta Flight go on a helluva field trip through Ottawa. The
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Episode 41: Enter the Jaded Dragon
Today we’re wrapping up the first Dream Queen arc in Alpha Flight #59 and #60 and a confusingly good time is had by all while still averting World War 3. We had recorded Issue #61 as part of this episode but life, uh, finds a way and editing that conversation is proving to take longer
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Episode 40: RiDQulous
And we’re back! New year, new energy, and the return of some of our favorite audio gags! It’s been a minute since we talked Alpha Flight so we take our time catching back up on everything that’s brought the team to this place; that place being inside of Box who is now a spaceship. Yep,
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Why Not Watch A Movie #1: V for Vendetta
Happy Boxing Day, folks! We’re rebranding the “Drink” series into, well, this! Kicking things off with one of the best move adaptations of a comic with this classic born of an Alan Moore comic. We have a great time chatting about a movie that seems particularly relevant now…20 years after it came out (feeling kinda
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2025 Holiday Spectacular!
Welcome to our second Holiday Spectacular! In which we share some of the more amusing outtakes that didn’t make it into the show over the last year interspersed with some delightful holiday music. This year we also explore a different and similarly fascinating question to our usual “Why Not?!”: What If?! Giant-Size Alpha Flight??? Thanks
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Patreon One Shot #1: Concerts
Now live for our Patreon supporters! This conversation was cut from our recording of The Crow Have A Drink episodes and is the reason Why Not One Shots came to be. We wanted a space to do 10-20 minute talks about things that are interesting but would derail an episode of the main show and
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Episode 39: “A Sas Called Wanda”
In which Alpha Flight goes on several distinct genre-based adventures over the course of 3 issues…and we feel the whiplash. Lot more on Goblyn; less discernible rules to characters’ power; and the return of…the Great Beasts!!! In this episode, Chris: and Tom: Why Not Read Alpha Flight is brought to you by listeners like you