“Creating a Canadian superhero is rather like growing bananas in Nunavut. With enough ingenuity and willpower you can do it, but is it worth doing?”
Canadian Superheroes
June 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Canadian Content · Asides · Comics
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2 responses so far ↓
1 The Constructivist // Jul 2, 2007 at 1:54 am
Hey, wait, is there anti-Marvel snobbery here? What about Wolverine? Alpha Flight?
2 Rob // Jul 2, 2007 at 9:50 am
Yeah, that occurred to me too. I thought about titling this post “what about Wolverine?” But I’m not sure that Alpha Flight disproves Heer’s thesis.
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