not to derail the topic any further but yeah to me it is the Justice League cus you have some of the big guns, some 'second' stringers, some action and lots of fun and to me that is in my mind 'comics defined'

from time to time original Alpha Flight was able to achieve this to some degree

My favorite member of Alpha Flight would have to be Puck.

See there really is so much they could do with this book but if they said lets put out another X-men titled book people would be happy. It should be given a chance to go somewhere.

I liked the old Alpha series even as lame as it could, and did, get and I was glad to see the old line-up. Maybe if it got past the first story arc it could have turned out better.