Glory (Avatar)

    (Avatar, 2001-2002)

The best way to typify Avatar Comics is that at any moment an evil sorceress can appear wearing a pink French maid’s outfit — and it’s not supposed to be funny. Garish covers explode with outrageous imagery (a recent one featured alien fetuses riding miniature dinosaurs) and girls falling out of their underwear, while the contents read like a failing junior-high-school literature composition. They’re like the Golden Age all over again — in the worst way possible.

Publishing Alan Moore’s Glory will go a long way toward changing Avatar’s image. There’s a big surprise in this issue, and it’s not the script by Moore, which, after sitting in a drawer for years, still crackles with his unexpected, obvious-after-the-fact ideas (like a genuinely schizophrenic secret identity for a super-hero). And it’s not the Golden Age Glory story by Melinda Gebbie, which nicely replicates the primitive charm of ’40s comics. No, it’s the art by Marat Mychaels: It’s much, much better than any of his previous work.

— S.A. Bennett
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Glory (Avatar) #1 Variation A

December, 2001
Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $4.50 		Cover A by Marat Mychaels; Glory with sword and outstretched hand; Large figure in background Alan MooreMarat Mychaels
Glory (Avatar) #1 Variation D

December, 2001
Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $2.00 		Alan MooreMarat Mychaels
Glory (Avatar) #2 Variation B

January, 2002
Cover Price: $3.50
1 copy available for $10.50 		Alan MooreMarat Mychaels