I'm fairly certain that this is the first issue of the rebooted Prophet that I read. I picked up most of the tail end of the series at a thrift shop a few years back after poking through them on the shelf, and then I read this one and was hooked. I don't know what it is about the Maximum/Extreme/Awesome studios characters that draws me in. I think perhaps I have this retroactive reading practice after having read Supreme that actually makes the characters and their stories mildly more palatable than they might have been originally. Borges writes an essay about the retroactive effect of Kafka's writing on those writers who came before him - we recognize, prior to his advent, the Kafkaesque in older writings. I think it's a similar effect on these superheroes once viewed through the lens of Moore's Supreme, and, now, the Graham/Roy-helmed Prophet and the Keatinge/Campbell Glory. These stories redeem those that came before, give us a context and let us understand that these mediocre adventures are, in a way, simply preparing the characters (both narratively and literally) for the grand adventures that await them.
Today's comic chronicles the 10000+ year history of Diehard. It's a really, really great story, and a nice one to open up our daily consideration of this title. To be continued!
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