INSIDE IMAGE COMICS’ TRIBE BY LARRY STROMAN 

This is one of my favorite of all of the second wave books, what a tragedy this series was. You're right Stroman did Alien Legion, X-Factor, Cloak and Dagger (I really love his C&D material). I recently finished my Tribe collection: the ashcan, #1 regular + a copy signed by Stroman and Johnson (in purple ink!), the white retailer incentive variant, the Axis Comics published issues 2 and 3 (4 was never published/the first story arc was never completed), the card set and binder that make up issue zero (worst 90s gimmick ever)... which is the sum total of Tribe outside of some logo clothing. In many ways the series is the ultimate expression of 90s collector exploitation, and unfortunately Axis Comics was a short-lived disaster. Tribe got dropped for shipping late after just one issue, so Stroman started Axis Comics. They hired on a bunch of other artists and basically promised to be Image 2.0 (since Image at the time was canceling books left and right and basically closing thier doors to other creators for the time being), but only managed to ship 4 comics (2 issues of Tribe, an Axis Jam special with Hero Illustrated, and one issue of Beasties) before declaring bankruptcy and leaving everyone unpaid and feeling burned. Tribe itself... I think is the king of collector exploitation: A card set zero issue with two 5 card chase card subsets, one occuring at the rate of one card per box, a limited serial-numbered binder to store the cards in, a serially numbered "monument set" of 8×10 card prints of the guest art from the card set, ashcan and retailer ratio incentive variant for the first issue, logo gear including a pin, a hat, a t-shirt, a hoodie, and a jacket (all with just the logo, no Stroman art) all for a 4 issue mini-series that was never even completed. I still love it though, Stroman's art is so beautiful and expressive. Edit: I am guessing whoever gave this a thumbs down must have been a contractor for Axis Comics.

I remember buying the first issue when it came out from Image and loving the art and story. A month or two after that, though, I moved back to South Florida, and I fell behind on collecting and never resumed. If the four issues were republished as a collection, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

That was great! I love Larry Stroman' artwork as well.

Looks much better than the X-Factor stuff. That is my least favorite art era on any book I read.

So Todd cancelled him? Damn, but #1 sold so well

On the subject of short-lived mid-90s publishers... did you ever get into Dave Elliot's Blackball Comics? It was the short-lived home for Trencher post-Image, also some Simon Bisley and Kevin O'Neil material, and the first half of Mark Wheatly's Radical Dreamer... in a very weird poster format.