702. Omega Flight vol 1 #1

[This is reviewed on 18th January 2018]

During the great American Civil War part 1 of the Marvel Universe where Iron Man and Cap were fighting over their ideals (a bit different from the movies), a few heroes and many villains decided to travel up north into Canada so as to get out of the US of A jurisdiction  and this series sorts of deal with this particular problem

And the problem actually starts from one of the issues in New Avengers where a strange being came to Earth exhibiting all sorts of powers and whoever stands in his way is decimated. Naturally he lands in Canada first. Therefore Alpha Flight was killed off panel (yup that's right one minute we see them and the next they are dead) before this dude went south to US of A thus giving the Americans time to see how awesome he is and plan ahead to defeat him (sigh!)

So there isn't much of a team left although we are told that Sasquatch survived and there is Talisman who now replaces her dead father, Shaman as the Indian's medicine man named (get ready for this) Shaman - great choice of name, eh?

What can the poor Canadians do then?

They get Sasquatch to sign up first and hope that by using him as a front, they can recruit the remainder of the team. By the end of this issue, all we get is Shaman saying no to him and people are proposing Spider Woman and USAgent as otherwise he would have no team. Unfortunately, even though the scenes were great, the Wrecking Crew came to Canada destroying and killing and Sasquatch thinks that he alone is a match for them! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! And here in his normal guise he is supposed to the smart one ... a scientist of sorts ... so in the world did he think he could take on all four of the crew together when they have given Hulk and Thor tough times??

Ah well ... this is in the era of decompressed story telling so you know they have to prolong the story to minimum of five to six issues in order to fill out a TPB ...

The artwork by Scott Kolins generally works although some pages are better than others but the last panel on the final page? You will have to stop and study it to find out what the heck is going on as the lines are everywhere and very hard to follow

Ratings: 4/10