Making it Good: The New Warriors (vol4)
We're going to break away from reimagining crap movies to reimagining a crap comic. Namely Marvel's current and 4th volume of New Warriors. This is a TERRIBLE book. One I buy for the worst reasons. Fanboy nostalgia. The Nieceza Warrior's run is among my favorite in comics. And so I keep buying this shitty book (currently written by the hack behind Underworld). The dialogue is awful and mostly consists of people giving speeches at each other. And the artwork has actually gotten WORSE since Paco "I can't decide how big people's boobs should be" Medina left. Of course what I want most is Nicieza back on board. But at this point I'd settle for Jay Faerber (who wrote volume 2) back. Or even Zeb Wells from Volume 3...
But lets say that Marvel attracted someone else. Someone who'd make a good counterpoint to Bendis' Avengers. Someone like...Dwayne McDuffie. He's being wasted in JLA cross-over hell right now. So lets get him back to Marvel. And as long as I'm dreaming how about Mark Bagley back on art. Or Darick Robertson. I'd prefer Robertson because it would mean the hateful anti-supers book The Boys had finally died...
So McDuffie & Robertson. And they get a certain amount of editorial instruction on what the book needs.
1. Its meant to be a counterpoint to Slott's Avengers: The Initiative. Slott's book (in theory) is the pro-reg book. So the Warriors will be the anti-reg book. For those in the dark Marvel had a GIANT cross-over called "Civil War" about the need for super-humans to register with the government. The pro-reg side under Iron Man won. The resistance side under Captain America lost. It was all pretty stupid. But its the status quo at Marvel now, and some writers are making some decent stories with it...
2. Certain characters have to be in it. A new Night Thrasher as leader. Original Thrash's half-brother. Those two may or may not be the same. The rest of the team should be ex-mutants, depowered by Decimation. Ok, this one for the non-comics followers was when Marvel had Scarlet Witch go crazy. First she changed the WHOLE world so mutants were in charge for House of M. After that ended, as the world was changing back, she said "No more mutants" and all but a couple hundred lost their powers and became humans. Its dumb...
But once again, thats the current state of affairs with the company, so play it as it lies. The cast HAS to have Jubilee, Beak and Winddancer as they apparently have fans. Who knew?
3. The Warriors get their new powers from re-engineered high-tech gear. Spidey's web-shooters, bits of old villain gear (Stiltman, Backlash, flying harnesses, some kind of teleporter). They've got a couple of non-powered techs as support cast...
And then you let a GOOD writer loose and see where he goes...
But lets say that Marvel attracted someone else. Someone who'd make a good counterpoint to Bendis' Avengers. Someone like...Dwayne McDuffie. He's being wasted in JLA cross-over hell right now. So lets get him back to Marvel. And as long as I'm dreaming how about Mark Bagley back on art. Or Darick Robertson. I'd prefer Robertson because it would mean the hateful anti-supers book The Boys had finally died...
So McDuffie & Robertson. And they get a certain amount of editorial instruction on what the book needs.
1. Its meant to be a counterpoint to Slott's Avengers: The Initiative. Slott's book (in theory) is the pro-reg book. So the Warriors will be the anti-reg book. For those in the dark Marvel had a GIANT cross-over called "Civil War" about the need for super-humans to register with the government. The pro-reg side under Iron Man won. The resistance side under Captain America lost. It was all pretty stupid. But its the status quo at Marvel now, and some writers are making some decent stories with it...
2. Certain characters have to be in it. A new Night Thrasher as leader. Original Thrash's half-brother. Those two may or may not be the same. The rest of the team should be ex-mutants, depowered by Decimation. Ok, this one for the non-comics followers was when Marvel had Scarlet Witch go crazy. First she changed the WHOLE world so mutants were in charge for House of M. After that ended, as the world was changing back, she said "No more mutants" and all but a couple hundred lost their powers and became humans. Its dumb...
But once again, thats the current state of affairs with the company, so play it as it lies. The cast HAS to have Jubilee, Beak and Winddancer as they apparently have fans. Who knew?
3. The Warriors get their new powers from re-engineered high-tech gear. Spidey's web-shooters, bits of old villain gear (Stiltman, Backlash, flying harnesses, some kind of teleporter). They've got a couple of non-powered techs as support cast...
And then you let a GOOD writer loose and see where he goes...