Pepe Moreno

It's good to see some of Pepe Moreno's comics work from the 1980's coming back into print after so many years. If memory serves, Rebel first appeared as a serial in the pages of Marvel's "Epic Illustrated" magazine, a great publication in its heyday. Rebel is goofy fun, with the emphasis on cool designs for uniforms, weapons and (above all) vehicles. It's no wonder that Moreno later graduated to designing video games based on the same themes. Interestingly, the plot ends with the destruction of one of twin towers of the World Trade Center in NYC - a curious premonition that gains added significance in a post-apocalyptic tale written long before the advent of Al-Qaeda.… (meer)