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thejim · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:08 am

2 months after Marvel announcing in Canada that Alpha Flight would be an ongoing title, they canceled it.. I'm so disappointed in Marvel's unwise decision...

http://ifanboy.com/articles/alpha-fligh ... t-issue-8/

Zenos · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:14 am

These are the guys who screwed up Spider-Man and didn't care, messed up the Ultimate Universe on a whim, and keep X-Men always in some kind of time/dimensional related crisis....

I'm sorry Jim, they just don't care.

thejim · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:37 am

Sadly I know this... They'd rather shove down our throat crappy "event" after crappy "event" than give us comics with great story telling... I don't even read X-Men any more, I read like 2 Avengers books (New Avengers, because Daredevil joined the team, and Secret Avengers)...

I asked Tom Brevoort on FormSpring about this...

Quote:

ME: I just heard about ALPHA FLIGHT being canceled, and after it was announced at FanExpo that it was going to be ongoing... Speaking as a Canadian, I'm very disappointed in this...

Tom Brevoort: Sorry about that. We were just as disappointed, but the sales were what they were.

J & S Harrington · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2011 4:28 pm

Given Tom Brevoort's response, I suspect that the Alpha Flight limited series sales were probably not that strong(at least by Marvel's standards anyway) and the "ongoing" announcement was probably a stunt intended to boost sales on the last couple of issues.

My guess is that Marvel was probably never seriously intending to make the series ongoing in the first place.

I could be wrong, but there it is.

-J

thejim · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:06 am

I was thinking the same thing... I believe it was only announced to take away from anything that DC was going to announce...

Zenos · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:38 am

That's why I look at the independent companies like Aspen, Zeneoscope, Dark Horse, etc.