May marks the 15th anniversary of the publication of one of the projects I’m the proudest of: Invasion of the Space Amazons from the Purple Planet #1. At the risk of sounding immodest, it may just be a comic that was ahead of its time:
- Five years before all the males on earth died in Brian K. Vaughan’s acclaimed Y, the Last Man series, Invasion of the Space Amazons from the Purple Planet explored the concept of a female-populated world…
- Five years before pirate fever swept the nation with the hit movie “Pirates of the Caribbean”, issue #4 of Invasion of the Space Amazons from the Purple Planet featured an exotic seafaring adventure…
- In the years when comic shelves were dominated by “bad girl” art and gun-toting vigilantes, Invasion of the Space Amazons from the Purple Planet presented a comic starring strong female characters, years before manga and graphic novel publishers finally began to reach out to female readers …
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