One of the best books I've read in a long time. Yea I can hear you now, "Alpha Flight?! The lame-ass Canadian team, good?" but it's true! It was well worth the 2.99 I paid for it. 40 some pages of intrigue, suspense and great characterization. It begins with a flashback of Guardian being dealt a mortal blow by Wolverine and then being forced to sign a curious document before the technicians provide him with medical aid. An event that will come back to haunt him....
Jump forward to present day with Vindicator having nightmares of her husband (Guardian) dying and being reborn all those years ago. Meanwhile in his own apartment, Puck is also having tormenting dreams of rejection by the one woman he's always had a crush on but has never been able to express, Vindicator. They both later get together at a coffee shop to discuss past times when a couple of armed soldiers burst in and tranquilize both of our heroes. Whereupon they are awakened later at Department H, Canada's equivalent of a super advanced CIA. New developments in terrorist activities seemingly call for the start of a new Alpha Flight team deal with such problems. It comprises of AF veterans Puck and Vindicator, Madison Jefferies, and two very different versions of Guardian and Sasquatch. Guardian is seemingly only 19 years old and has little if no knowledge of his past life as Vindicator's husband. Sasquatch is chained to a wall looking like a primordial beast, and not much more intelligent than one. Then there's the new team members: seductive Murmur, shy Flex and his overbearing brother Radius and the gargantuan Manbot.
After being rushed through basic training, the team is sent against the terrorist group known as the Zodiac. During the conflict Sasquatch goes berserk turning against friend and foe, Madison Jefferies is kidnapped, Guardian and Puck have a grapple over leadership and basically the whole mission, while successful, does not come about easily. This is a team with a lot of problems and Vindicator and Puck know it. As they walk out of Department H after returning back from the mission they are shot from behind with stun beams and are dragged back inside... Inside the general in charge of AF's missions is having a polite conversation with the head terrorist in charge of the Zodiac and in yet another area of Department H, Manbot is playing back surveillance tape he took of the mission to a very intrigued group of scientists. Oh yeah, and Sunfire gets shot down en route to Department H.
Do I have you intrigued yet? Hopefully so, I can not begin to adequately describe all the details of this book. It certainly got me hooked; Who shot down Sunfire and why? What the hell's happened to Sasquatch? Did Guardian sign a deal with the devil all those years ago?
Pick it up, it's well worth the money.
Rating: 8 outta' 10