Brian Reace

Lightning Comics was one of those scrappy early-'90s indie publishers swinging for the fences, and Brian Reace is a piece of that bold, boundary-pushing moment — debuting in Bloodfire #2 in 1993, brought to life by Joseph A. Zyskowski and Julius "Octavian" Jackson. He moves through a world shared with the title's headline character Bloodfire and the intriguing Dr. Cornelius Thorpe, making for a compact but vivid corner of the Copper/Modern Age indie landscape. With only a handful of catalog appearances across the short-lived Bloodfire run, Brian Reace is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through early-'90s independents such a rewarding hunt for collectors who love the road less traveled.