Irving Forbush Presents :

Story by Scotty Lobdell

Penciled by Clayton Henry

Inked by Mark Morales

Colored by Digital Rainbow

Lettered by Rich & Jimmy @ Comicraft

Editorial Assists by Sean Ryan & Stephanie Moore

Edited by Mike Marts

Chiefed by Joe Quesada

Publishing by Dan Buckley

Cover Dated January 2005

Days of Future Present, Past Participle! Part One of Four

I only own this issue for the Uncanny X-Men 141 Homage cover.

We kick off Big Hero 6 Month with this very issue!

The Alpha Flight are – Sasquatch / Yukon Jack / Centennial / Nemesis / Puck / Major Mapleleaf

Big Hero 6 are – Hiro / Go Go Tamato / Sunpyre / Honey Lemon / Baymax / The Ebon Samurai

I really liked this volume of Alpha Flight, it was very fun and light comic book fare.  I also liked the second volume as well with their espionage story elements.  I only own two issues of the first volume (33 and 40) and only this issue of this volume.

Issue opens with the two teams fighting each other, like any good meeting of two superhero teams.

There is an ad for Spider-Man on DVD, go buy it!  Actually, just get the 2.5 edition.

Even though there is a bunch of fighting right at the top, there are a lot of jokes being flung around with the punches.

There is an ad for Smackdown v Raw, which I played on the PS2.  Amazing how far the graphics have come in just nine years – which isn’t that amazing now I think of how much time and how many systems have come and gone (two!).

Smallville Season Three was coming to DVD!  Also the horrible X-Men / Fantastic Four miniseries is coming out, where four X-Men get exposed to cosmic energy.  The four X-Men that are exposed are – Emma, Gambit, Wolverine and Nightcrawler.

The two teams get together to try to help former Alpha Flight member, Flashback.  He wants to enlist present day Alpha Flight to save his future self so that he doesn’t die at that moment.

Big Hero 6 leaves right when Flashback shows up.  Baymax, the team’s robot, was being mind controlled and once they figure that out, the fight stops and Big Hero 6 leaves to investigate what that was all about.  Which I’m sure this first half of the comic was suppose to work like a back door pilot for their eventful miniseries.  There must have been some cross appeal with international comic book teams.  I suppose that does make sense.

This is the only comic appearance I own with Big Hero 6, the rest are handbook style books.