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It's always bittersweet for me when I pick up this comic. I think, given the opportunity, it could have become a favourite (it already is, really), and it could have become one of the best superhero team books out there. If Liefeld's claims are correct, and a huge amount of what would have been the Awesome Universe went into Moore's America's Best Comics, I'm actually not sure where the Youngblood-inspired stuff went. Top 10 is the only team book in the ABC Universe, and it's very, very different from Youngblood. I do think some of the storylines were recycled. There's some similarities between the story in Awesome Adventures and one of Tom Strong's storylines, but aside from that, I don't see that many reminders in the latter of the former.
As I noted yesterday, Joe Casey picks this team up, with a slightly modified line-up about a decade later, and it's very good, but once again cut short by Mr. Liefeld. For now, however, we have the three short stories and 3(ish) issues of the team from Awesome, and they are, honestly, awesome.
A cool first issue adventure - there's a special that came out just after what's referred to as "The Awesome Implosion," which I take to mean that Awesome lost a lot of money and lot of creators, called Alan Moore's Awesome Handbook - this prose publication outlines Moore's plans for the first years of both Youngblood and Glory in the wake of neither of those series having much chance of ever seeing the light of day. The Youngblood series was seen as a series of single issue adventures, with the occasional two-parter, which I'll talk about in a couple of days. The series sounds fun and interesting and, of course, really intelligent.
More to follow.
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