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spectralbovine

If You Like Anything, You Will LOVE THIS POST!

Nov 04, 2009 22:09

BOOM!

You guys! Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E., by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen, is the GREATEST COMIC IN THE HISTORY OF EXISTENCE!

Nextwave is essentially a parody of superhero comics, specifically the Marvelverse, that is still a fun and entertaining superhero comic in its own right. Actual Marvel characters make what I can only assume are ( Read more... )

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punzerel November 5 2009, 16:22:52 UTC

I am sending this to Littlest Sister! It sounds potentially right up her alley.

spectralbovine November 5 2009, 16:41:00 UTC

It is right up everyone's alley! It goes right up your alley and kicks you in the face!

pellucere November 5 2009, 22:57:21 UTC

It was right up Littlest Sister's alley when she read it several months ago! Sista, you are behind the times once again.

Hi again, spectralbovine. I may reread Nextwave soon, it was a lot of fun. Ellis usually is entertaining, even in his more serious works! It was kind of like Transmetropolitan minus all the philosophizing about journalism and politics and human nature, and plus a great deal of explosions and drop bears.

spectralbovine November 5 2009, 23:08:45 UTC

I have not read Transmet yet, but I am certainly more eager to now!

beeker121 November 5 2009, 17:11:30 UTC

I did not realize you had never read Nextwave. I found it last year sometime and fell out of my seat laughing. I regularly loan my copies out to people to spread the love.

However, I didn't know that it was dead and done and there wouldn't be anymore. Which makes me a little sad. But I'll just keep rereading what I've got. whee!

spectralbovine November 5 2009, 17:27:16 UTC

I borrowed my copies from Seanan. And, man, I was laughing on BART, laughing while waiting for a show, laughing at lunch, laughing in my apartment. I think people were giving me funny looks.

The title didn't sell well enough to be able to afford Immonen, and Ellis wouldn't do it with another artist. Apparently there were supposed to be some miniseries later on, but I guess those never came to fruition, like the mythical Avatar specials we were supposed to get this year.

Kick! 'Splode!

mycenae November 5 2009, 18:31:11 UTC

I LOVE NEXTWAVE!

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spectralbovine November 5 2009, 18:36:36 UTC

I love that bit!

It's pretty much the only Marvel comic I've read
Alas! I am a Marvel guy.

that doesn't stop it being awesome, even if I don't get all the in jokes.
It's true!

Maybe I should buy it, though, to like, reward it for being awesome.
Heh, yeah. I'm waiting to see what the Ultimate Collection is like. They're collecting all twelve issues in one trade that's coming out in March, but I don't know what sort of bonus material will be in it. Or whether it will include "If you like anything, you will LOVE NEXTWAVE!" on the back. Because I kind of want the copy I own to have that so I can read it and laugh all the time.

I'm playing Nextwave!Monica in my friends Marvel game.
Ooh, fun.

seffina November 5 2009, 19:50:12 UTC

It's utterly random of me to comment, but I have to wholeheartedly agree: Nextwave is awesome. I just need to get my own copy instead of treating friends' copies like crap.

spectralbovine November 5 2009, 22:09:15 UTC

It's not that random! I know and like you and welcome more comments.

the_narration November 6 2009, 01:30:41 UTC

Nextwave was totally hilarious and awesome.

"All I have is two Uzis and a shovel. And guns don't work on samurai, so all I have is a shovel. Rock."
"Release the Drop Bears!" (Drop Bears were a monster in the game Shadowrun. And yes, they were vicious koalas that brough death from above. In-jokes for the win.)
"Fing Fang Foom put you in his pants!"

spectralbovine November 6 2009, 01:36:37 UTC

Ha, I didn't know that about Drop Bears. Good times.

And I didn't realize Fin Fang Foom was an established Marvel character until I Googled. Heh.

And Elsa was pretty badass. (You have actually conflated two awesome moments. The first line goes to "So I guess I can shoot things and bury them.")

the_narration November 6 2009, 01:55:02 UTC

And I didn't realize Fin Fang Foom was an established Marvel character until I Googled. Heh.
Ah, silly Marvel and their silly villains from the 60s....

You have actually conflated two awesome moments. The first line goes to "So I guess I can shoot things and bury them."
It has been a few years since I read it, but I thought she did that bit both ways.

spectralbovine November 6 2009, 02:03:07 UTC

"I've got two Uzis and a shovel. Which, I suppose, means I can shoot things and bury them afterwards."

"Samurai robots beat guns. No question. So it's just me and a shovel. Rock."

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