If you want the very definition of a forgotten gem: read Kurt Busiek and James W. Fry’s Libert
If you want the very definition of a forgotten gem: read Kurt Busiek and James W. Fry’s Liberty Project series from 1987, years before Busiek became a top level creator after Marvels. The concept was, essentially, Suicide Squad: criminals are given a chance to rehabilitate themselves through public service in a superteam. But the book distinguished itself through good characterization, and a serious examination of how society makes rehabilitation and redemption difficult, if not impossible, as well as how the criminal justice system is fundamentally centered on dehumanization and humiliation, as opposed to rehabilitation. People call this “early Busiek,” like it was cruder than his later work on Thunderbolts or Astro City. To that I say he was just as good here as he was later…he just wasn’t famous yet, and fewer people were paying attention. -- source link
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