Alpha Flight #114
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAlpha Flight #114 holds its place in Marvel history as the debut issue of Wyre, a genetically-enhanced super-human assassin whose backstory is directly entangled with Weapon Omega (Wild Child) and the Secret Empire's shadowy super-soldier program — making him one of the more conceptually distinct antagonists introduced in the title's late run. The issue also advances the Weapon Omega identity arc, a narrative thread that gave the series its sharpest Wolverine-adjacent angle during the Simon Furman era. While the series was deep into its final years, #114 planted seeds that paid off across the 'Extreme Prejudice' arc and beyond, and Wyre's unexpected revival in 2024–25 X-Men comics proved the character has had genuine staying power in the wider Marvel Universe.
In "Bloodline!", Weapon Omega confronts unsettling questions about his past as Alpha Flight faces a crisis in the field. When Heather dispatches Beta Flight to resolve a hostage situation, the mission takes a deadly turn when Manikin is fatally poisoned by the Jackal. Written by Simon Furman and illustrated by Pat Broderick, with inks by Bruce D. Patterson and colors by Bob Sharen, this 1992 issue delivers a tense, character-driven moment in the series, with Broderick's dynamic art defining the cover.
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By late 1992, Alpha Flight had transitioned fully into the hands of British writer Simon Furman — veteran of Marvel UK's Transformers line — and penciler Pat Broderick, who had taken over from Scott Lobdell and Tom Morgan at issue #110. Under editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco and editor Rob Tokar, Furman used the 'Bloodline!' story arc beginning here to pivot the book away from event tie-ins (the series had just come through Infinity War) and toward a grittier, character-driven mystery around Weapon Omega's engineered origins. Pat Broderick handled both cover and interiors, with inks by Bruce Patterson and colors by Bob Sharen — the stable creative unit that carried the book through issues #114–120.
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- First appearance of Wyre (cameo): a genetically-enhanced Canadian assassin created by Simon Furman and Pat Broderick, whose full powers include projecting razor-tipped inorganic tendrils from his body and superhuman strength, speed, and a healing factor.
- Story title: 'Bloodline!' — released September 8, 1992, with a November 1992 cover date.
- Written by Simon Furman; pencils by Pat Broderick; inks by Bruce Patterson; colors by Bob Sharen; letters by Janice Chiang; cover by Pat Broderick.
- Tom DeFalco served as editor-in-chief; Rob Tokar was the series editor.
- The issue features both Alpha Flight (Guardian/Heather Hudson, Weapon Omega/Wildchild, Sasquatch, Puck, Northstar, Aurora) and Beta Flight (Manikin, Witchfire, Persuasion, Goblyn, Laura Dean), plus the Jackal as villain.
- Central plot: Weapon Omega begins investigating his engineered origins, while Guardian sends Beta Flight on a hostage mission that ends with Manikin being fatally poisoned by the Jackal.
- Wyre's motivation — guilt over his role in creating the Secret Empire's super-human killers, of whom Wild Child/Weapon Omega is one — would be revealed and expanded across the subsequent 'Extreme Prejudice' arc (issues #115–117).
- Wyre was later revived after roughly three decades of publication limbo, appearing in the 2024–25 volume of X-Men (Vol. 7), demonstrating the character's continued relevance to Marvel's Weapon-program mythology.
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