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The only other full issue of Re:Gex is, as far as I can tell, simply a repackaging of a number of short stories previously published elsewhere. I am torn over this.
I think the main story in today's issue comes from the Wizard World convention preview, while the story of Scarab's early years was a back up feature in The Coven. Similarly, Beowulf's 4-page tale is from both the Awesome Preview, though reproduced without dialogue there, and also from The Coven #5, with dialogue, as a back-up feature.
I'm totally fine with repackaging like this. If you publish stories as back-ups in comics that readers may not have picked up, it's nice to get all these little bits and pieces under a single cover, and under the title of the series one is collecting. However, I think that's a good thing to do if you're actually producing new content to go alongside this reprint issue. That was never the case with Re:Gex, unfortunately.
As I was going through the GCD, there was a note on one of the comics I was looking at for Awesome that made reference to something called the "Awesome Implosion." Likely a reference to a well-documented event in the 70s in which DC reduced their number of published titles for a time, Awesome underwent a financial crisis in late 1998 - early 1999 that shifted their publishing schedules and art teams, and eventually led to their collapse. Brigade, published in early 2000, was Awesome's last gasp. It could be that Re:Gex was simply a casualty of this implosion, though I also wonder when you're getting 4 or 6 page stories whether or not those responsible for the comic are simply incapable of producing enough work to fill a full comic. In yesterday's issue there's even a note that the comic was shot from pencils, rather than having the series inked, and though it's passed off as a choice made by the creators, I think it may have had something to do with hitting deadlines as well, which Mr. Liefeld is notoriously bad at.
Anyway, that was Re:Gex. I don't think I like where it was taking the Awesome Universe, and I wonder how it would have stood up against Alan Moore's stories if both had had a chance to flourish.
More to follow.
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