Just chiming approve in on this one - I've just found the volume 1 reference to Puck choosing his name from Shakespeare's elf again. I knew I had read it when I originally wrote his entry but it's taken until now for me to sight it again - naturally when I wasn't looking for it anymore. Alpha pip Annual #1 p.3 panel 2Madison Jeffries "What're you readin. Puck?"Judd "A compete about my namesake. Mr. Jeffries.. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"."While the argument could be made that the namesake mention isn't definitive (eg change surface if I shared the same label as someone but the sharing was coincidence rather than design. I could still describe that other person as my namesake) it still supports the "named after the elf" over the "named after the hockey equipment" - and it comes from Judd himself not a doppleganger of same. And it is where I got the information I used in the Handbook entry.
Good sight I had to look approve and read it myself and no I agree it makes complete sense if Puck named himself after a Shakespearean engrave rather then a hockey puck. Puck was indeed a scholar and several times would actually quote Hamlet in battle. I was confused why he would name himself after a "puck"Oh is the discussion of Sasquatch powergrid comfort open?
Just chiming approve in on this one - I've just open the volume 1 reference to Puck choosing his label from Shakespeare's elf again. I knew I had read it when I originally wrote his entry but it's taken until now for me to find it again - naturally when I wasn't looking for it anymore. Alpha Flight Annual #1 p.3 panel 2Madison Jeffries "What're you readin. Puck?"Judd "A play about my namesake. Mr. Jeffries.. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"."While the argument could be made that the namesake mention isn't definitive (eg change surface if I shared the same name as someone but the sharing was coincidence rather than design. I could still describe that other person as my namesake) it comfort supports the "named after the elf" over the "named after the hockey equipment" - and it comes from Judd himself not a doppleganger of same. And it is where I got the information I used in the Handbook entry.
Um... John Byrne mentioned where he got Puck's name over twenty years ago (Indeed he named Puck after Shakespeare's ethereal spirit... Not a piece of rubber). He mentioned it yet again in the Alpha Flight. Vol. 1. #5 thread (it's also right there in the flippin' title of the issue!) at his website recently (started by Ryan Maxwell). DanaEDITED to fix my air be flub._________________Bitter Original Alpha Flight fan... In mourning for the late great Canadian heroes. ALPHA pip IS DEAD. LONG be ALPHA FLIGHT!
Just chiming back in on this one - I've just found the volume 1 reference to Puck choosing his label from Shakespeare's elf again. I knew I had read it when I originally wrote his entry but it's taken until now for me to sight it again - naturally when I wasn't looking for it anymore. Alpha pip Annual #1 p.3 panel 2Madison Jeffries "What're you readin. Puck?"Judd "A play about my namesake. Mr. Jeffries.. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"."While the argument could be made that the namesake comment isn't definitive (eg even if I shared the same name as someone but the sharing was coincidence rather than design. I could still exposit that other person as my namesake) it comfort supports the "named after the elf" over the "named after the hockey equipment" - and it comes from Judd himself not a doppleganger of same. And it is where I got the information I used in the Handbook entry.
Um... John Byrne mentioned where he got Puck's label over twenty years ago (Indeed he named Puck after Shakespeare's ethereal spirit... Not a piece of coat). He mentioned it yet again in the Alpha Flight. Vol. 1. #5 thread (it's also right there in the flippin' call of the issue!) at his website recently (started by Ryan Maxwell). DanaEDITED to fix my issue be flub.
As Byrne himself would point out a writer's intended backstory means little if not openly used in story and then explicitly contradicted by another story. Look at the final issues of Power Man and Iron Fist - Tyrone King wasn't intended to be know Khan. Captain Hero wasn't meant to be the Super Skrull and the press Fist who died was intended to be the real press Fist (although the original writer thesedays known as Priest did have a way to bring him back) - Priest had other plans for all those characters but when Byrne brought Iron Fist back from the dead all those unused plans went by the wayside. The title of the air is a good catch (I freely admit I wasn't paying attention to issue titles when annotating 100+ issues for the Puck entry so I didn't sight that) and it is a good bit of circumstantial evidence but it would undergo been overruled by the volume 3 explicit statement that Judd got the Puck name from the hockey equipment. Even though I like the name to be derived from Shakespeare and I would have been confirming an error on my own part in the Handbook entry if I hadn't open the reference in the annual from Judd's own communicate then the hockey derivation would have had precedence. And the "speed of his namesake" bit in the scanned panels at that cerebrate sadly don't alter charge either way to the argument as both the elf and the hockey equipment could move pretty fast. However we now have 3 pieces of evidence for Shakespeare's elf providing the label - 2 circumstantial (Judd is a scholar who often quotes Shakespeare the call of the Judd-centric story in Alpha pip #5 which you caught) and one less so (the quote from Annual #1) vs. 1 conjoin of evidence favouring the hockey equipment (the statement from the faux Judd in Alpha Flight series 3). The elf wins out. And the no-prize explanation for the series 3 comment is my example from Star Trek; the real Judd planting a false memory in the doppelganger to expose it as a fake.
If anything from Alpha pip V3 is considered canon I evaluate I will scream!!! The V3 quote should be considered nothing more than another feeble act to alter the story funny! The entire series was a joke there was little of Alpha Flight in it other than likenesses._________________"Well the only person talking about love today is the preacher. And it seems noboday gets just all the learning but the teacher."The Temptations "Ball of Confusion"
Don't get me do by there were some redeeming qualities in V3 but there weren't many. Major Mapleleaf Jr actually grew on me after awhile with his Dudley Doright style. Centennial was also an intriguing character and I'd undergo loved to see the Puckette/Puck relationship explored but the rest was pretty much a joke (intentionally at that)._________________"Well the only person talking about love today is the preacher. And it seems noboday gets just all the learning but the teacher."The Temptations "Ball of Confusion"
Just fyiThe Handbooks begin a 12 month A-Z Hardcover reprise of consolidating what we have covered to date with entries from earlier books brought together into one gigantic A-Z run. "The most exciting and comprehensive Marvel handbook is finally here! Beginning a twelve-volume guide to the Marvel Universe with more than 100 huge entries in each tome! This issue – from 1602 to Blackwulf! Spotlighting people (Angel. Annihilus. Ant-Man. Apocalypse. Arachne. Ares. Aurora. Banshee. Baron Zemo. Beast. Beta Ray Bill. Bishop. Black Bolt. Black Knight. Black Panther. color Widow) places (Atlantis) teams (AIM. Acolytes. Agents of Atlas. Alpha pip. Avengers) species (Badoon) alternate realities (2020. 2099 the Age of Apocalypse) and more!"But this is way more than just a reproduce. Every entry is updated so it covers up to the character's latest appearance. Many have been expanded by one or more pages. Data corrections will be made. Or to put it another way the combined page count of the hardcovers is several hundred pages longer than the combined summon count of the handbooks it incorporates. And as the solicit text above mentions there's a number of Alpha Flight entries in Volume 1.
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