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 this episode, Chris:

• gives some recommendations re: Puscifer’s best work
• does a great High Brow
• and makes some great sound effects

and Tom:

• has a great time with Manikin’s attacks on “the Scribbler” who created him
• probably does more talking as Knapp than he has any other character, which doesn’t feel awesome
• totally predicted that Knapp and Mantlo might have a heart-to-heart at some point and is damn proud of that random occurrence

Issue discussed:
Alpha Flight #66 – “Killing Me Softly With His Word Processor” cover date January 1989
Writer is Bill Mantlo
Penciler is Hugh Haynes 
Inker is Gerry Talaoc
Letterer is Janice Chiang
Colorist is Bob Sharen
Editor is Carl Potts
Associate Editor is Marc McLaurin
and Tom Defalco is Head of the Class

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Written by Chris Baker
Produced and edited by Tom Flynn
Music:”Oh, Canada” by Five Iron Frenzy