Starting off the first day of 2020 with a lookback at a distant past ... a past over 2 decades in the making! Yes, a slice of hyperbole from yours truly, that quite frankly will regularly delve into the new year ahead, in "celebration" of my own past geekdom, and perhaps even sell some sets along the way LOL
Presenting a Card-Flipping Look at "The Prophet Collection" (non-sport) trading card hand-collated set of 90 cards, with this being the sole set available for purchase, alas with less than stellar AKA heart-breakingly stained card-sides, I will not lie.
Nevertheless, the artwork featured offers a look at the hyper-'roided muscled fictional men and women from the Image Comics aesthetic era of the (mid) 90s, for a superhero character created by Rob Liefeld.
Approximately half of the set's 90 cards were created by Stephen Platt - whom I'd personally adore, and quite frankly bought the first few issues of the comic book because of his art (I have zero memory of the story, alas), with additional artists including Liefeld himself, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Mike Deodato, Art Adams, Chris Sprouse and Sam Keith and more.
A whole lot of the art in Liefeld's Extreme Studios showcased similar overly cross-hatched-n-inked art aesthetics, synonymous with Image Comics' breakout during their heyday.
Featured directly below is a 9-card "Puzzle Card" series, which formed a larger image, and is something I liked about non-sport trading cards back in the day, and is somewhat n "interactive" element of card collecting, as you need to form a larger image(s), as such as you need to collect the cards themselves, IMHO. It too serves as a "character-profile" of the primaries/principals of their individual book+teams.
The character first appeared in Issue #2 of Liefeld's "Youngblood" (July 1992), Prophet had since starred in three ongoing series bearing his name, circa 1993, 1995, and 2012, respectively. "A fourth series, named Prophet: Earth War, began in January 2016." (Wiki).
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