However, Masterman has risen from the ashes as the vehicle for the Many-Angled Ones (Lovecraftian other-dimensional invaders), and Zenith is the only one left to pick up the fight. Their only descendant, Zenith, is now a teenage pop star whose ego is only surpassed by his hunger for women, drugs, alcohol and fame. More then forty years later, a generation of 1960s superheroes have either died or faded from view. Zenith: Phase One has just hit the market, and covers the rise of its eponymous hero through exposition and a major flashback: in 1945 Berlin, British hero Maximan battles the German super soldier Masterman until both men are destroyed by an atomic bomb.
That volume is now being chopped up into four separate hardcovers for the general audience. Originally published in 2000 AD between 19, Zenith had never been collected in its entirety until last year, when 2000 AD released a limited-edition hardback of the serialised stories. After languishing in copyright limbo, Grant Morrison’s breakthrough work finally sees the light of day again in a beautiful hardcover edition, with Steve Yeowell’s linework as crisp as ever.
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