Puck Part 83: Alpha Flight #105 (February, 1992)

It’s Madison Jefferies’ bachelor party, and Puck is there to take part in the celebration.

I have this issue.

Judd is with Colin, Walter, Jean-Paul and Kyle as they celebrate Madison’s impending wedding at a local Toronto bar. But it’s also Christmas Eve, and when someone tries to rob the bar they learn that the thief was only planning to borrow the money because his landlord raised the rent on his family’s home. The Alpha males decide to help him, and Judd, Walter and Colin visit the landlord and ‘convince’ him to sell them the house.

Notes of Interest:

1) Judd has known Jean-Paul for six years as of this issue.

2) The bar they are at is called Corky’s, and is the same bar Judd was a bouncer at when he received the Alpha Flight call signal back in Alpha Flight #1.

3) Apparently, John Byrne hangs out at Corky’s too.

4) Judd reveals to Corky and others that he’s Puck of Alpha Flight and nobody believes him…not even Byrne.

WTF? Moment: Judd’s over seventy years old at this point and comments that the thief’s story is the most tragic thing he’s seen on a Christmas Eve. Really? I know it was summer when he was in battle in Spain with Hemingway, but surely something tragic happened either to him or around him during Christmas time as he traveled the globe. Plus – wasn’t he in prison at some point?

WTF? Moment #2: Having Judd storm off after Corky asked him for an 8x10 of Guardian was funny. It would have been even funnier if Judd brought in a pic of Mac from his Guardian days – a Byrne pin-up perhaps?