Nextwave Rocks
March 11, 2006
When I first heard about Nextwave as was a bit intrigued. It’s billed as a humorous comic centered around five less than popular Marvel super heroes. More importantly, the humour is English, which I love.
I picked up the first issue, gave it a read though and came away feeling that maybe it wasn’t what I was looking for. Maybe I was taking it too seriously. Who knows… Anyway, I gave issue #2 a shot, and wow am I glad I did! This book ripped out and had funny pouring all over the place.
OK, a bit of back story, the five characters resurrected for Nextwave are: Monica Rambeau the leader (aka Ms Marvel or Photon), Aaron Stack a robot who “does robot-y things” (aka Machine Man), Elsa Bloodstone who’s super strong and English, Tabitha Smith blows stuff up (aka Boom Boom or Meltdown), and The Captain who is strong and can fly for some reason (aka The Captain). So those are the characters, a seriously motley crew. They were put together as a team by Dirk Anger or H.A.T.E. who they promptly rebelled from. He’s unhappy about that.
The main premise at this point is that they are going around fighting off H.A.T.E.’s UWMDs (Unusual Weapon of Mass Destruction). The first of which is Fin Fang Foom, a huge ancient Chinese dragon in purple underpants.
Clearly not targeted at children, there is a ton of innuendo and sarcasm that I find hysterical. At the moment my favorite character is Machine Man, but this is most likely related to the two frames I’ve included in this post.
I was also entertained with the description of The Captain:
The Captain is so absurdly strong that he once smacked someone’s spine out through their lungs just by patting them on the back.
In his defense, he was extraordinarily drunk.
Is it possible The Captain could be Chuck Norris?!?.
Anyway, if you like comics and you like to laugh, go read Nextwave.
Tags: aaron stack, boom boom, comic, comic books, comics, elsa bloodstone, fin fang foom, H.A.T.E, machine man, marve, marvel comics, meltdown, monica rambeau, ms marvel, nextwave, photon, purple underpants, robot-y, tabitha smith, the captain, uwmd
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[...] Warren Ellis (Nextwave) will partner with Mike Deodato (New Avengers and Amazing Spider-Man) will take over Thunderbolts beginning with issue #110. [...]
[...] Nextwave - I’ve already said it, Nextwave Rocks. This Warren Ellis written and Stuart Immonen drawn book is by far the funniest monthly Marvel puts out. It’s a strange humor, but one that appeals to me greatly. Unfortunately, it has to come to an end. Marvel has canceled this title, issue #12 will be the last. Fortunately both are off to places where I will still follow them. Ellis is taking over Thunderbolts with issue #110, a new exciting team spinning out of Civil War. Immonen will take over for Bagley on Ultimate Spider-Man. [...]