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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2013-02-17 11:19 am

A suspicion about Marvel and its depiction of Canada

One wonders if the upcoming Omega Flight reorganization to be depicted in Avengers is part of a larger plan to play out Canada's internal divisions in a superheroic context.  To wit:

Alpha Flight - Canada according to Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Trudeau and Tommy Douglas among others.

Omega Flight - Canada according to Stephen Harper, Mike Harris, Brad Wall and so forth.

I suspect Jonathan Hickman of being capable of doing the research and thinking it through in those terms once thoroughly informed. But would editorial oversight permit that?

Am I thinking too much about this? Probably.

[identity profile] shanejayell.livejournal.com 2013-02-17 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

Taken over by the Master, hosting the first WEapon X project, the second Weapon X, having a mutant concentration camp....

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2013-02-17 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
And that first Weapon X complex has been taken over by Scott's crew, hasn't it?

[identity profile] shanejayell.livejournal.com 2013-02-17 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup.

(Anyone read the issue? I'm wondering if it's still in Canada or if Bendis moved it.)

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2013-02-19 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't seen any suggestion that the facility's been removed from Alberta so far.

Guessing that Ottawa might be interested in this development...?