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The second, and final, piece of what was meant as a 3-issue mini-series guest-stars The Coven, whose series I really ought to get around to reading. I'm close to finishing off those series, so maybe soon. It turns out that Lionheart has shown up in The Coven, so I'm in some ways coming to the character backwards. Which doesn't appear to matter much, honestly. What I do find interesting is that Lionheart is, for all intents and purposes, a spin-off from The Coven, but since I didn't know that, I've read it as a series that stands by itself. I'm not sure what the overall effect of this is, aside from the fact that I wasn't expecting The Coven to show up, as I might have if I'd read their series, and met Lionheart there, first.
And speaking of The Coven, today's issue is a flip book with the final issue of Awesome's second series featuring that team. I've read bits and pieces of the series, so I wasn't completely lost, and this short tale is a story of Fantom and her experiences during the Second World War. The story is a reprint of Fantom's tale from the Coven: Black and White, which is, as far as I can tell, also reprinted in Coven: Dark Origins. The 1999 Awesome output comes at a time when the company is beginning to seriously flounder, and the reprints speak to this. It's difficult to really consider this issue as a proper part of the second volume of The Coven - it's previously released material and doesn't move what narrative might have been happening in the second volume forward at all. But I'll have more to say about that when I actually read the series.
At the end of this issue, Lionheart actually develops some armour from her powers, the pieces of which fit over the exposed skin her costume leaves. So at least she's not just giving everyone a free show when she's in her superpowered form, though I still don't really understand why her costume wouldn't go underneath the armour plates as well. Surely all that magical metal is stil cold.
I'll probably mention this when I get to their series, but I think the magical underworld of the Awesome Universe that Churchill and Loeb were crafting fits very nicely with the Silver-Age-esque superhero world of Moore and company. *sigh* What could have been...
More to follow.
Oh, and here's the flip cover:
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