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Issue: Alpha Flight II:16 Date: Nov-98 Story: Redemption (22 pages) Feature Characters: Guardian, Vindicator II, Puck, Flex, Radius, Murmur, Manbot Regular Characters: Gentry, his assistant Hames; Lilli (now Ghost Girl) Guest Stars: Modred (in flashback); Gerry (the Canadian Prime Minister) and his wife; Honey Lemon of Big Hero 6 Villains: Dr. Huxley, the Brass Bishop (Bishop Benedicto de Vica Severtes), Dargil, Mephisto Other Characters: BeatrÌz Credits: Writer: Steve Seagle Pencils: Duncan Rouleau Inks: Rob Hunter, Aaron Sowd, Cabin Boy Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Severtes was a bishop in Spain who fell in lust with BeatrÌz and traded his soul to Mephisto for her, not knowing she'd become a nun. He found a mystical suit of brass (sealed with BeatrÌz's blood, no less) that hides his soul until he can breach heaven's gate and trade her soul to save his. He needs the Solomon Seal to do it, and years ago Puck and a sorcerer named Modred prevented this. Along the way, the bishop beheaded Mephisto's servant Dargil, who now he eats souls to make new servants for him. Radius recklessly attacks the bishop and gets a face full of Dargil, but Puck saves him. The Flight can't destroy the zombie townspeople, but Flex flexes his whole body to throw them back, and they enter the Tower, which is an Escher-like maze. Dargil attacks and zombifies Puck. Radius uses his forcefield to smash the bishop; Heather's Catholicism and Flex's forearm save her from Dargil. Puck leads the bishop to the seal; they approach heaven, and the Flight attacks them. Puck's soul, meanwhile, floats with others, whom he bands with to fight the bishop. Their combined strength allows him to return to his body; he uses the Seal on the bishop's armor, and his liberated soul is claimed by Mephisto. The Flight is returned to Canada; the zombies are freed; Honey Lemon of Big Hero 6 advertises the next issue. Murmur gives herself a new outfit; Lilli is now Ghost Girl, phasing through walls. Issue: Alpha Flight II:17 Date: Dec-98 Story: Tokyo Takedown (22 pages) Feature Characters: Guardian, Vindicator II, Puck, Flex, Radius, Murmur, Manbot Regular Characters: Gentry, Hames, Lilli Guest Stars: Big Hero 6: Sunfire, Silver Samurai, Hiro, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Gogo Tomago; Northstar, Sasquatch, Shaman Villains: X the Unknowable; Dr. Huxley; Weapon X (III?) Other Characters: Cub scouts including Tomi Credits: Writer: Steve Seagle; Plot: Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau Pencils: Duncan Rouleau Pencil Assist: Gus Vazquez Inks: Rob Hunter, Rubinstein Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Big Hero 6 is Japan's only super-hero team, with new HQ in the Cool World Amusement Park, which is suddenly attacked by a giant shape-shifting dinosaur. They counter-attack, rescue civilians, and wish Sunfire were there to help. Sunfire storms into Dept. H, looking for Huxley and learns things are better since Gentry replaced Clarke. Honey Lemon calls for help, so he returns to Japan. Gentry grills Huxley about his exposing Sunfire to "Zero Fluid." Flex bumps into Lilli, and hearts twitter. Northstar is about to return to Dept. H, to get help finding his sister, when Sasquatch and Shaman stop him. They have her. Alpha Flight goes to Japan and helps Big Hero 6 clean up the amusement park. Honey Lemon notes that they are "the fourth most popular super-hero team in all of North America!"; Manbot tells Hiro he is entirely synthetic. They find a cub scout who drew pictures of X; they seem to have come to life. They split up and follow the boy's other drawings; Flex, Radius and Go Go stay behind to wait for Sunfire and realize X was still there, in the shape of a toy bear. It eats Radius; Sunfire arrives and blasts it. X changes shape and flies off; the Samurai has read ahead and is there to attack it. Sunfire, Mac and Heather join in, seeming to kill the monster, but rupturing Mt. Fuji. Fortunately, Honey Lemon has a volcano cover in her purse. Sunfire stays in Japan. Huxley has a secret, new Weapon X lab in the basement, and it has escaped. Issue: Alpha Flight II:18 Date: Jan-99 Story: Alpha: Omega, Part 1 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Guardian, Vindicator II, Puck, Flex, Radius, Murmur, Manbot Regular Characters: Lilli; Dept. H personnel including Gentry, Hames, Su, Haddock, Lt. Power Guest Stars: Guardian, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Shaman, Diamond Lil Villains: Dr. Huxley; Weapon X Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Steve Seagle; Plot: Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau Pencils: Duncan Rouleau Pencil Assist: Andy Smith Inks: Smith, Mendoza, Cabin Boy Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The team is trying to recapture the new Weapon X, but he is resilient in his body armor. He is a New Zealander, and he is sucking up energy from a power plant. Gentry yells at Power for sending Epsilon troops out on Huxley's authority; Huxley is jet-packing to the site. Earlier: Heather takes Mac looking for apartments, but when he suggests they live together, she rebuffs him. Flex finds out Radius's father was Unus the Untouchable, and they are not really brothers. Radius has been pushing beyond his limits in the training room, because of guilt over Sasquatch, and Flex rescues him. Puck reads the file sent to him by Kilgrew (iss. 13) and reveals Huxley's secret lab: Diamond Lil in suspension; the new Weapon X. They were infected with a bacteria which is now a parasite in Weapon X and trying to control his mind and spread itself to all humanity. The present: while battling Weapon X, the new Alpha Flight runs into the old Alpha Flight, including another Mac. Issue: Alpha Flight II:19 Date: Feb-99 Story: Alpha: Omega, Part 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Guardian, Vindicator II, Puck, Flex, Radius, Murmur, Manbot Regular Characters: Lilli; Dept. H personnel including Gentry, Hames Guest Stars: Guardian, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Shaman; Snowbird (an illusion: see next iss.); Diamond Lil (flashback) Villains: Dr. Huxley; Weapon X; Gen. Clarke (flashback) Other Characters: Sewer workers including Randall Credits: Writer: Steve Seagle; Plot: Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau Pencils: Duncan Rouleau Inks: Jamie Mendoza Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Predictably, the Alphas fight each other, and Weapon X escapes. Shaman blames Weapon X for Aurora's predicament: he infected her, and the bacteria is slowly eating her personalities. They need to capture him to learn how to cure her. They don't trust the new team because of their connection with Dept. H. The old Alphas teleport away; the new Alphas find and interrogate Huxley. He claims to have been forced to run the Weaopn X experiments; Puck knows otherwise. Weapon X comes across a sewer worker; the bacteria in him wants to eat, but the human in him wins and runs off. Mac wonders if he's Mac. Mac wonders if he's Mac. Sasquatch tells the old one how Dept. H wiped his brain and sent him into space to die; he crashed in Antarctica where Sasquatch found him (iss. 13). Weapon X is headed for the Hell Pounder atomic incinerator in British Columbia. Both teams pursue. Snowbird (dead since Vol. I:44), is already there and tells them to turn back. Issue: Alpha Flight II:20 Date: Mar-99 Story: Alpha: Omega, Part 3 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Guardian, Vindicator II, Puck, Flex, Radius, Murmur, Manbot Regular Characters: Lilli, Gentry Guest Stars: Guardian, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Shaman; Snowbird (an illusion) Villains: Huxley, Weapon X Other Characters: Credits: Writers and Pencils: Steve Seagle; Duncan Rouleau Inks: Jamie Mendoza, Candelario, Palmiotti, Perotta Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Ruben Diaz Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Snowbird turns into a polar bear and attacks. Gentry shows no fear, realizing it's an illusion, a warning from Shaman. The team sees the Hellpounder, which is a disposal site: a deep-drilled hole with nuclear blasts. Weapon X has Huxley and wants him to detonate the bomb, to crack his suit open and infect the world. Huxley thinks his powerful intellect will be able to dominate the bacteria and rule the world. Aurora is channeling Weapon X. Macs are empathing each other. Manbot is sparking; Radius envelops him with his force field and smothers the fire. Old and new Alphas fight, despite misgivings. Mac and Mac finally call a cease-fire and get everyone to go after Weapon X. They fail to catch him, and then the Hellpounder's containment field goes up. Aurora explains that the human part of Weapon X took the bacteria from her and wants to destroy it in the nuclear blast. He jumps in the hole. Mac the younger gets Puck to trick Huxley into lowering the shield; he orders Shaman and Heather to retrieve Weapon X, and Flex and Manbot to defuse the bomb. Macs and Radius erect their own shielding, in case the bomb goes off. Manbot's system fails; the bomb is about to go off. Weapon X breaks free and holds the pin in the bomb, until it falls down the hole: a noble self-sacrifice in the end. Huxley escapes; Gentry assembles all the Alphas. He doesn't reveal which Mac is real, because they've both proven themselves. Puck and Heather are dating. Gentry holds a celebration. Note: this is the end of the series. Issue: Alpha Flight/Inhumans '98 Date: 1998 Story: Tides (39 pages) Feature Characters: Alpha Flight: Guardian, Vindicator II, Puck, Flex, Radius, Murmur; Inhuman including Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak, Triton, Gorgon Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Other Characters: Joshua Livyere, Phadros, Thera Credits: Plot: Joe Casey; Script: Steven Seagle, Mark Bernardo Pencils: Tom Raney Inks: John Beatty Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Gina Going Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Battle Harbor, Newfoundland, has been mysteriously flooded, and Alpha arrives to rescue and investigate. Heather sees a new tidal wave and goes to find its source, while Radius surfs. The team drops the victims at the hospital and then goes after Heather. Mac generates an E-M pulse to find her, disabling the team's jet. Just before they crash, Inhumans rescue them, carrying them to their beautiful island-city of Attilan. Heather is there, safe but dazed, having passed through a mysterious mist. Karnak explains: Inhuman scientists exposed their baby to the mutagenic Terrigen mists, twice. An earthquake busted the temple, releasing the mist and causing the tidal waves. The baby's genetic potential shows; he causes a statue of Black Bolt's father Randac to rampage through the city. Black Bolt goes to the baby and manipulates his energy impulses; the statue falls. The baby can control stone and earth and has reached out to Heather through her geothermal suit. Part of her wants to stay and mother the baby, but she knows she would never belong there. Black Bolt breaks the psychic link, and the Flight departs. Issue: Sunfire & Big Hero 6 1 Date: Sep-98 Story: Land of the Rising Sun: Part 1 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida), Silver Samurai (Keniuchio Harada), Hiro Takachiho, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Gogo Tomago Regular Characters: Gigi Industrial Corp.'s Mr. Oshima Guest Stars: Villains: Everwraith Other Characters: Mrs. Takachiho Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell Story Idea: Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau Pencils: Gus Vazquez Inks: Bud Larosa Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Hiro is 13 year-old rich, fatherless genius and Sunfire's biggest fan. Bayamax is his synthetic, dragon-morphing guardian, who gets him up for school, where he gives a lecture to his class about Sunfire. Sunfire's powers went recently out of control (because of Magneto's E-M pulse, X-Men II:25, Oct. 1993), and he had been a captive of the Japanese government, until the Silver Samurai and Wolverine broke him out. The Samurai meets Hiro in school and offers him a spot on Japan's new super-hero team. Hiro makes him admit his mother already said no, and returns to class. That night his Sunfire-detector goes off: he's back in Japan. Hiro and Bayamax track him to an abandoned monastery and see that he is dying, his body half-burnt from within. He and Bayamax squabble, but the Samurai arrives with Go Go, who turns into a ball of fire and separates the combatants, and Honey Lemon, who pulls a radiation-dampening blanket from her "Power Purse" and catches Sunfire. He blasts, to scare them off, then collapses. He has come home to die, since Dept. H could not find a cure. He goes with the team. Hiro returns home to find his mother a pile of ashes, and Everwraith wanting to control him. Issue: Sunfire & Big Hero 6 2 Date: Oct-98 Story: Land of the Rising Sun: Part 2 (24 pages) Feature Characters: Sunfire, Silver Samurai, Hiro, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Gogo Tomago Regular Characters: Gigi Industrial Corp.'s Mr. Oshima Guest Stars: Villains: Everwraith Other Characters: Mrs. Takachiho Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell Story Idea: Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau Pencils: Gus Vazquez Inks: Bud Larosa Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Honey Lemon demands to stay with Sunfire while the doctors run tests on him. He doesn't trust these doctors any more than he trusted Dept. H. Alarms sound; Hiro and Bayamax have intruded and are surrounded by armed guards; he triggers an E-M pulse to disarm them, then hacks into the computer. The Samurai arrives and makes short shrift of Bayamax; Go Go arrives and knocks Hiro away from the computer. He explains: he needs help or his mother will die. Everwraith is in downtown Tokyo. He is the astral embodiment of everyone who died in the atomic blasts in World War II. He wants to wreak havoc on complacent Japan, so it will rise from the ashes again. Hiro explains to Oshima: Everwraith had ported his mother away and will kill her unless he sees Sunfire. He tricks them: he pours a glass of water on Bayamax to reboot him. Oshima relents and lets him see Sunfire, who is on his deathbed. Hiro gets angry and walks out, because Sunfire has given up. Issue: Sunfire & Big Hero 6 3 Date: Nov-98 Story: Land of the Rising Sun: Part 3 (21 pages) Feature Characters: Sunfire, Silver Samurai, Hiro, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Gogo Tomago Regular Characters: Gigi Industrial Corp.'s Mr. Oshima Guest Stars: Villains: Everwraith Other Characters: Mrs. Takachiho Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell Story Idea: Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau Pencils: Gus Vazquez Inks: Bud Larosa Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Lee Ann Denham Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Everwraith is wreaking havoc in Tokyo; the team confronts him, but they haven't learned to be a team yet. The Samurai orders them back, and attacks, slicing Everwraith into pieces, but he revives. Sunfire arrives and asks Everwraith what he wants: he wants Japan to grow strong through adversity. He blasts Sunfire, siphoning off his atomic energy using solar panels. Honey Lemon coats Everwraith with ectoplasm, which means he can be touched. She and the Samurai do, hard. Meanwhile Go Go tries and fails to smash the panels, and Bayamax frees Hiro's mom. Hiro tells Sunfire to release the kinetic charge in his body, which he assumed was part of Dept. H's treatment; Sunfire knew nothing about it. He now uses it to break Everwraith's hold on him. He blasts the solar panels, and appears to disintegrate. Hiro stays late at the funeral; Sunfire shows up. He is neither dead nor dying, and he is returning to Canada to find out why he had been misled.
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