There are a couple of things that strike me about this comic.
First, Brigade are basically the Avengers, right? You've got a battle-hardened fighter (Captain America), a growing guy (Giant-Man), and archer (Hawkeye), a water guy (Namor, perhaps?) - but they're renegades, not playing by the government's rules. It's ironic then that the Avengers themselves managed this much better than Brigade about 15 years later, after the Civil War. What I suppose this proves is that the Image comics creators had the ideas, but sadly not the skills. As I noted in yesterday's post, McFarlane was clever to get established and well-regarded writers on his book early on. It took Liefeld a little while to come around and let Alan Moore have a go at his characters. It's a pity Liefeld pulled the plug. All that said, this is actually not one of the worst comics. It's produced by a sort of second tier creative team, not one of the Image founders, but a disciple of sorts. And in that, it doesn't really have anything to live up to, the way the rebellious artists books do. It wasn't a great comic, but it had its moments.
And one of those moments is the other thing that struck me, a moment that doesn't actually feature the titular team. There's an extra feature in the comic starring a character named "Infiniti," who I know absolutely nothing about, and who apparently only features in 4 small back-up comics and that's it. What really got me about this short feature was a character who appears right at the beginning of the story, but looks like he's just stepped right out of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol:
Apparently known as "The Enigma," you can bet that I will be tracking down the other piece (I'm only missing one) of this story to see what he's all about.
To be continued.
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