{"id":4527,"date":"2010-11-16T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2010-11-14T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T02:52:14","slug":"alpha-flight-funnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/16\/alpha-flight-funnies\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Flight Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As some of you may remember, <a title=\"Alpha Flight on ONCE UPON A GEEK\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2010\/08\/24\/alpha-flight-favorite-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m a big Alpha Flight fan<\/a>.\u00a0 Yes, they are the laughing stock of the Marvel superhero jet-set, but I still love them.\u00a0 Thanks to Rob over at <a title=\"Aquaman Shrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aquamanshrine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Aquaman Shrine<\/em><\/a>, I stumbled across this <a title=\"Alpha Flight strips on James Duncan's site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaesye.com\/?tag=alpha-flight\" target=\"_blank\">series of Alpha Flight comic strips by James Duncan<\/a>.\u00a0 They are hilarious!\u00a0 Below I&#8217;ve presented three of the nine strips he&#8217;s done so far.\u00a0 <a title=\"Pitabow Comics Present Alpha Flight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaesye.com\/?tag=alpha-flight\" target=\"_blank\">Visit <em>Pitabow Comics Present<\/em> for the rest of the Alpha Flight comic strips<\/a> as well as numerous other funny strips!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaesye.com\/?p=1250\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Alpha Flight comic strip by James Duncan at Pitabow Comics Present\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/alphaflight_funny3.jpg\" alt=\"Alpha Flight comic strip by James Duncan at Pitabow Comics Present\" width=\"700\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaesye.com\/?p=1319\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Alpha Flight comic strip by James Duncan at Pitabow Comics Present\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/alphaflight_funny2.jpg\" alt=\"Alpha Flight comic strip by James Duncan at Pitabow Comics Present\" width=\"700\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaesye.com\/?p=1396\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Alpha Flight comic strip by James Duncan at Pitabow Comics Present\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/alphaflight_funny1.jpg\" alt=\"Alpha Flight comic strip by James Duncan at Pitabow Comics Present\" width=\"700\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you enjoyed these, be sure to <a title=\"Pitabow Comics Present\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaesye.com\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">visit James Duncan&#8217;s site <em>Pitabow Comics Present<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent 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