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Thursday, March 02, 2006
"I'm going to put you in my pants!"
Remember when I would post about how Marvel and DC being too dependent on supplying life-long readers thrills based on continuity weaving while anyone looking for something new (read: product that will keep the company alive and viable after the Continuity Heads are dead) would feel a bit disenfranchised looking for that superhero thrill? The post on the sidebar about "Young, Snotty and Blogging" is an example of that. Well I'm happy to report that things have changed a little bit. There is a comic being published that is exactly the type of thing I have been pining for. Strangely enough, it's published by Marvel.
Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen's Nextwave doesn't feel like any other superhero book being published. As soon as you see the covers by Stuart Immonen you know there's a lot more creativity and attitude put into this book than the books it will be shelved by.
The most important aspect of all is that the book has a wild sense of humor. Reading bits like the Q&A in issue #2 or Fing Fang Foom's sing-song intro in issue #2 reminded me of all the jokes and asides writers like Stan Lee and Steve Englerhart would throw in their narrations, but now updated for a world flowing with information and jaded irony (there's certainly know reverence for Marvel's past but c'mon, was Stan ever reverent?). That spirit of creative anarchy left Marvel comics for a long time but I know I feel a bit of it coming back. Ellis has re-created that excitement for the age where you can download a comic's theme song from the publisher's website.
This is what modern superhero comics should be striving for. Marvel would rather drown us in Infinite Crisis rip-offs but I can only hope Nextwave is well received enough so that we'll see more than twelve issues of the planned maxi-series. Perhaps other creators unafraid to go a little nuts with Marvel's toys? It's worth a shot.
For more creativity in stand alone imagery why don’t we look towards the fine world of polish movie posters (thanks to Shane for letting me know about this).
Can you imagine advertising Rebel Without a Cause or To Live and Die in L.A. with these images? The Dumbo poster looks like something out of Kramer’s Ergot. This is what I wish would fill the lobbies of American movie theaters.
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