Image Comics is doing something so weird that I wonder who's idea it was: they're bringing back Extreme Studios. The weird thing is that not only are they only re-doing Rob Liefeld books...but they're, more or less, completely changing them. If you forget, Extreme Studios & Awesome Entertainment were the Rob Liefeld Image books. There were literally a ton; Youngblood, Team Youngblood, Bloodstrike, Prophet, Glory, Supreme, and a bunch of others. The most famous books out of this were written by Alan Moore...but for the most part they were big, dumb, superhero books in the classic Liefeld style. Prophet did get some buzz when superstar artist Stephen Platt quit Marvel and drew a few issues before quitting and going to Hollywood to draw storyboards (he never came back to comics). Prophet is back with a new team and it's super fucking bizarre. It features a guy that travels through time. In this issue he interacts with aliens. The art, by Simon Roy, is rugged and the colors, by Richard Ballerman, are beautiful. It's just weird, though; writer Brandon Graham shows us a jell city, weird, mutated beasts, and a sexual encounter with an alien. But it is fascinating and oh-so far away from the Liefeld/Platt stuff. ***
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