Or - “The Family That Punches Together, Gets A Sequel A Decade Later…” 

Let us go back, ladles and jellyspoons, to a far-flung time in our nation’s distant past.  As the years pile up in our wake, we travel back to another age, so different from our own as to be like a different world…  1994.  Bill Clinton was president, most of you weren’t even able to type yet, the Internet was still just USENET, Stephen was single, and I was just about to get married.  In the midst of the chaos that was comics (think teeth and claws, bad girls, Venom, Wolverine, dark and gritty, and EVERYONE had “Blood” in their name) there came a quirky little concept from Alan Davis that harkened back to the Silver Age of comics.  The adventures of teen superheroes Crimson Crusader and Imp and their uncle-slash-caregiver seemed to be a throwback to an earlier time in comics, but turned out to be something even more wonderful:  a throwback to ALL the earlier times in comics, in pulps, in adventure fiction itself!

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