Puck Part 76: Alpha Flight #100 (September, 1991)

Puck is among those left behind to make a final stand against the oncoming Consortium assault fleet.

I have this issue.

Judd, Captain America, She-Hulk, Diamond Lil, Black Widow, Northstar and Sasquatch face an alien invasion in Toronto. Being nearly invulnerable, Judd is chosen by Cap as one of the heroes to act as a shield while they fall back to a metro station to regroup and formulate a plan. The station is destroyed before the team can reach it, but they make it to an underground tunnel, and Cap tells them the only way to end this is to infiltrate and destroy the Consortium mother ship.

She-Hulk, Lil and Sasquatch act as a diversion on Earth while Judd and the others commandeer a Consortium craft. Judd uses the ship’s translation programs to communicate to the mother ship that their ship is leaking radiation and needs extensive repairs… buying them time and the opportunity to land unobserved.

The four heroes split up, with Judd and Black Widow taking over the communication systems and ordering the fleet to return to the mother ship. Cap and Northstar succeed in setting the ship to go to warp, and the four of them return to Earth just as the team sent to fight Galactus returns…without Vindicator.

Notes of Interest:

1) We learn that Judd knows Japanese.

2) It seems Judd has a history with Black Widow, fighting on opposing sides in the Tonkin Gulf in 1967.

3) Black Widow knows Judd’s first name is Eugene.

WTF? Moment: I love the fact that Judd’s past includes Black Widow. It’s little things like this that make reading comics such fun.

WTF? Moment #2: So Natasha knows Eugene’s name? Was it because of their previous work, or did she just read it in the Avengers’ files? Plus - he doesn’t seem fazed by it. Does he know her name too?

WTF? Moment #3: I know this is nit-picking, but we see Judd, Widow and Cap on the stolen craft all sitting separately with their backs to each other looking out separate windows, so it’s hard to tell who’s piloting the thing as they approach the mother ship. Maybe they all are?