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Taking a break from our alphabetical investigation of the small press, just for a week or so.
There's a text feature on the inside front cover of this comic that gives a brief history of Youngblood, outlining their status as government agents and celebrity superheroes. There's a brief note about a revival of the team that "collapsed under its own weight," the only real nod to the Moore/Skroce team and what happened to them. Though, later in the issue as the team fights a giant robot, Shaft notices something familiar, and I'm wondering if the tech is Big Brother-inspired. Leonard Doyle is, sadly, absent from the team.
In that vein, along with Leonard, Suprema and Twilight are also missing. I know Suprema shows up in at least one issue of Bloodstrike that I've got that came out around the same time as the relaunch of all of these Extreme Studios titles. Glory, Prophet, Supreme, and a host of others got reboots, and really good reboots around this time. Prophet, amongst the rest, went on to have a respectable run and told an absolutely amazing story. It would have been lovely to see where Youngblood under Casey and Donovan's capable hands would have gone, but, as I've noted in previous posts about the series, in issue #9, partway through a storyline, Liefeld pulls the plug and gives us a really lame issue, and then the series fizzles.
But I don't want to go into the series just waiting for it to end. There's some excellent stuff happening here, stuff that, while it owes a great deal to the previous series, charts its own directions and narratives. I'm excited to read it again, as I haven't since it was first published. The team is reassembled and the celebrity aspect is pushed - the idea is that the government wants to be able to export superheroes the same way that they do Hollywood stars. I get the sense it's just not going to work out that way.
More to follow.
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Joe Casey is among my favourite writers - his run on Adventures of Superman is probably one of the best Superman stories I've read.
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