It turns out that a demonic enemy of Avengelyne's set up in ancient Rome, and she had to oust him. I think.
I'm getting the feeling that these different series of Avengelyne that Avatar releases are not really different series. The events of Revelation tie directly back into the end of Bad Blood, which I assume is the series that preceded it. I think the multiple #1s really ought to be treated more as story arcs, rather than series in and of themselves. This, of course, gives far more opportunity to print multiple covers for the issues, and to publish prelude and #1/2 issues when there isn't quite 2 comics worth of stories.
That sounded a bit snarky, but it wasn't meant to. For some people, this is the joy of the hobby, the collection of variants and premium comics. Who am I to disparage that? The reason that I bring up the idea of story arcs is that it shifts the way I approach the comics as I read them. If I pick up a full series, I expect to get a full story. If I pick up a story arc, I recognize that there will be much I'm not getting. The movement of the arc to series status camouflages the fact that this is actually an ongoing series. What it really means is that I'm reading this alternate Avengelyne out of order.
I have no idea why I'm so taken with this series. There's something vaguely magically realist about the way that the people that Avengelyne comes into contact with in the first century seem to have no qualms with the way she's dressed. I mean, we would now, so I can't imagine what the uproar would have been then. I might read some more Avengelyne tomorrow. We'll see.
More to come...
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