ATTENTION NEW UNIVERSE FANS!

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http://www.newsarama.com/wwphilly05/Marvel/XPanel/WWPhilXMen.htm

Blimey me ol Guv'nor this is going to be the worst comic of all time ever.

"Tentpole" events, eh?

(yes, 7 year old me had a huge crush on Jennifer Swanson...I'll be in my bunk...)

from http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Feb_06/Feb06solicits.html

Claremont's New Excalibur was really great when read in skim-fashion! It was much more coherent and not nearly as awkwardly-wordy as I Was expecting (possibly because I was only reading the text from every third panel). Also the Kitty/Wisdom interaction was really nice.

Also, is the Ultimate Universe off-limits by editorial edict?

Getting to the anticipated announcement from the event, Ellis’ next Marvel project will be the ongoing series Newuniversal (a working title). “They’re giving me the New Universe to play with,” Ellis revealed.

"I'm going to be doing many terrible things with the old New Universe books - clean stuff, as if the books had never been published before, so I won't be beholden to any of the older work."

Ellis' new (i.e. rebooted) take on the New Univese will include a "chunk of the old stuff and a slightly smaller chunk of new stuff, just to get the best story out of it."

Ellis named Nightmask as one of the more interesting concepts of the previous New Universe incarnation.

Newuniversal will be an ongoing title, featuring all of the characters of the/his New Universe. "I wanted to write a big ensemble book," Ellis said, "and the idea that hit me as I was flipping through the [original] stuff was that it all should have been one big story. To me, the people lost sight of that when they did it."

Ellis said that it will be written at a Marvel Universe level (n terms of content), and Marvel editors said that it would most likely be rated "T+".

The stories of Newuniversal will not be self-contained, Ellis said. "It will roll along."

The series is slated to be launched at the end of the summer.

Actually, the Exiles comic at the moment reminds me of D&D games I'd run in jr high where the party somehow managed to land in the Forgotten Realms, Camelot, Krynn, not Greyhawk cause it was so boring, and wherever the Herculoids lived. Which was in turn a lot like the Marvel Super Heroes game we ran where my friend Matt just went around kicking the shit out of villains/heroes with stealable stuff (armor, Ultimate Nullifiers, adamantium shields) and built an arsenal.

The Ellis stuff should be fun, though. The girl is a more active Ellis fan than I am -- she buys his stuff, I forget to get around to reading it because it's in her office with the 30 Days of Night and Battle Royale comics I keep forgetting about -- so it's a shoo-in for our pull list.

NIGHTMASK -- FRED VAN LENTE / ARNOLD PANDER
JUSTICE -- PETER DAVID / CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
PSI-FORCE -- TONY BEDARD / RUSS BRAUN
STAR BRAND -- JEFF PARKER / JAVIER PALUDO (tho I think & hope they mean PULIDO)
DP7 -- C. B. CEBULSKI / M. D. BRIGHT

Ellis should have pulled his Counter-X thing on the New U -- Star Brand was much better-suited to the Vertigooey take Steven Grant brought to X-Man.

Jeff Parker - writing Marvel Adventures: FF, but best known for his creator-owned mindie sensation, The Middleman (which I've heard nice things about).

C. B. Cebulski - Marvel editor / assistant editor? (OH NO)

Action Philosophers looks veryvery nineties. Not in the grim-n-gritty Punisher: The 'Nam Years sense, but nineties nonetheless.

Can you STAND THE SUSPENSE!?!

Also, boo to Marvel for actually trading the old NU stuff in regularly-priced trades.

Hey so the first 6-issue mini (the high-profile Ellis / Larocca one) happened, and it was a great set-up / revamp for something that might never see its intended conclusion. The second mini (the not-so-high-profile Ellis / Kurth one -- Kurth's a bit like Chris Weston, in case you want an off-base comparison to lose yr shit over) is going on right now, w/ pre-arranged skip months filled by one-shots written by Kieron Gillen (HAND PICKED by WE hisself) -- the first fill-in 1-shot (subtitled "1959") was pretty OK, and continuity wonks will appreciate the involvement of an alt-world TONY STARK.

FWIW, the nu NU has gotten its grubby mits on Nightmask, Star Brand, Justice, Spitfire and (in a honest-to-goodness shocker) Kickers Inc. DP7 / Psi-Force involvement might be happening as well, but I can't tell for sure.

And no MARC HAZZARD yet either.

Yeah I have been enjoying this - and speaking as an Ellis agnostic and New Universe fan I'm surprised how much.

Haven't read the Gillen yet but since he came to Poptimism a couple of months ago I now feel very well-disposed to the man.

Psi-Force involvement is absolutely happening; Proudhawk was in the first mini. (iirc, I'm operating on extreme timezone whiplash atm)

Sorta piggybacking Tom's post (since it reminded me): I meant to mention that while this definitely is A Warren Ellis Joint (SCIENCE!), it's not as overwhelmingly Ellisy as his stuff tends to be (meaning his characters are more like actual characters & less like mouthpieces for unending streams of "cool") (tho this might just be a matter of degrees).

I was enjoying it, but maybe I missed #6--did the first series have any sort of end, or did it just stop?

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/11/117443/2542590-27099_3652_30066_1_star_brand_super_super.jpg

hey that font looks familiar

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SrZJxAawL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

the cruelest revive

buncha bastards teasing shit.

kinda want to re-read this shit

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