Puck Part 81: Alpha Flight #103 (December, 1991)

Puck witnesses Windshear’s first public appearance as acting chairperson of Alpha Flight.

I have this issue.

Windshear appears on the television show Canada A.M. and is bombarded with accusations of mishandling the Consortium incident and causing massive damage in Toronto. Judd looks on from behind the cameras, acknowledging that this sort of thing was outside his comfort zone. Windshear makes a comment that can be seen as throwing Heather (as team leader) under the bus, and Judd realizes that he new face of the team is gonna need some pointers.

Notes of Interest:

1) While Judd isn’t comfortable being interviewed on camera, he understands the need to appear unified in the public eye.

WTF? Moment: I guess the meeting with DeFalco didn’t go so well since Judd’s still confined to a single page of the issue.

WTF? Moment #2: Why Lobdell didn’t have Judd hop a plane to help fight Diablo is beyond me. This is a guy who fought against the Great Beasts, remember? A few elementals would be child’s play.

WTF? Moment #3: If the plan is to make Judd work more “behind the scenes” of the team and help maintain public support and government funding, I’d be happy with that. He’s been around long enough to justify keeping an eye on watchdogs, giving Windshear some wisdom and maybe even training some future Beta members…just GET there already!