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This, I think, is the last comic published by Awesome Entertainment. At least, it's got the latest cover date on it. With Awesome, though, that's not always an indicator of when the comic was actually released.
Brigade started off as an Extreme Studios team book way back in the 90s, and this reboot takes a similar tack in bringing together characters from various corners of the Awesome U and putting them in a situation in which they have to help one another. It's a bit contrived, but, honestly, would have made a really cool series had it had the chance to play out. I'm not totally familiar with Dash of the New Men, but her narration of this comic is really well done, as is her reticence at rejoining the superheroic lifestyle.
So what happens to the Awesome U after this issue? In some ways, the revision wave that began the whole thing sweeps across. Some characters are completely lost. Some find their way out of Limbo (that's a Grant Morrison Animal Man reference) and into new series, but not for many years after the dissolution of this wonderful shared narrative space. Bits and pieces of the world are carried along in these series, but none of them are as interwoven as the comics of the Awesome U were, which diminishes the series somewhat. In my humble opinion, of course.
There are a couple of other bits and pieces of the Awesome U I need to track down, most notably The Coven. Once I've got them, we'll pop back into the mystical side of the universe, but aside from that we're pretty much done. Sad, but immensely satisfying too.
More to follow.
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