Over at the Miltonian: looking back on The New Warriors in the 90s
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I write for The Daily Miltonian from time-to-time. Wanted to let folks knew I put a new essay up there. Here’s a sample:
For this edition of the Spinner Rack, I decided to plunge into the Russellian Incorporated Innovations Corporation’s warehouse o’ comics and find one at random that might be worth a few minutes consideration here on The Daily Miltonian. When I looked at the cover of New Warriors #7, I just saw Night Thrasher fighting a b-list villain named The Bengal with the Punisher’s emblem in the background.
I thought, well, I can write about the way comic books like to run a guest appearance by a popular character in the early issues to boost sales on a new book, and boy was the Punisher hot stuff in the 90s. And, I thought, the New Warriors are coming back right now. They’d slunk off in popularity as a B-list team that Marvel wrecked to kick off Civil War. Now that Civil War is over, The New Warriors have come back as a new team book, the face of the resistance to Tony Stark’s mad new world order and featuring the return of the intense, focused, almost Batman-like Night Thrasher.
Then I opened the book up and read it and remembered: “Oh, yeah, Fabian Nicieza was flippin’ amazing in the 90s.” Wow.
You know you love this stuff. Head on over and read the whole darn thing.
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“comic books like to run a guest appearance by a popular character in the early issues”
…like that time spiderman showed up in the bible?
Everyone liked Spider-Man’s Bible cameos, it’s Northstar’s appearances that The Church is trying to hush up.