Puck Part 67: Alpha Flight #91 (December, 1990)

Puck and the rest of Alpha Flight are used as pawns by Doctor Doom.

I have this issue.

Judd is with Northstar, Diamond Lil, Box and Vindicator as they bust up a deliver of high-tech weapons being smuggled into Canada by a group calling themselves the Latverian Liberation Front. The smugglers are stopped, but burst into flames before they can be questioned. Doctor Doom then arrives in Canada to trade his country’s technology for access to clean water because the Latverian water supply has been contaminated…and requests Alpha Flight as protection. Judd is among the Alphans chosen to go with Doom to Parliament when another group of LLF members appear and attack Doom. Judd helps take them down, and learns that there is more to Doom’s plans than meets the eye. Doom vanishes, and official talks between Latveria and Canada cease.

Notes of Interest:

1) Judd gets thrown “fastball special”-like by Lil for the first time.

2) This issue is the first meeting between Judd and Doctor Doom.

WTF? Moment: Nicieza brings back Judd’s connection with Hemmingway with a rather small off-handed remark.

WTF? Moment #2: Isn’t it great to see Judd’s uniform with pants? I know he’s had them for a while now, but it really is a better look than the one with the shorts and the hairy legs. Just sayin’…