The Faces of Glory - Alan Moore's Glory #0 [Haley Variant, Avatar Press]

I really quite like the Haley covers of this series, though this one is perhaps my least favourite. Haley's covers seem to capture something of the pensiveness of the character, though this one is showing off a bit too much pensive butt to really mesh nicely with his other two covers. Well, sort of. There's butt, and then there's butt. You'll see what I mean when I post his next cover.

This is the Alex Haley variant of issue #0 of the Avatar series. I'll give Avatar some respect for the extra material in this edition of the zero issue. Awesome's is balanced out by some sketchbook material and a black and white preview of an upcoming issue of Supreme. In this edition, we have an illustrated history of Glory, one that, rather skillfully, manages to make sense of her convoluted continuity. I love seeing things like this, and they're actually indicative, to me, of the Alan Moore sensibility that was brought to the Awesome Universe. Rather than deny where the characters had come from, they instead made them tributes to the original heroes. There were some really amazing superhero stories coming from Awesome, and Moore, for a little while there.