Panel of the Week

From the Longbox – Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.

This is Elsa Bloodstone. She’s a monster hunter and she rolls with twin shotguns as well as twin uzis. Not even sawed-off boomsticks either. These are full stock and full barrel angry instruments of justice. Ms. Bloodstone is part of the Nextwave team and her British patience will only last so long.

Nextwave is a team of minor Marvel heroes that revolt against their employer to fight against their employer’s employer. Got that? It doesn’t matter. A robot, an ex-avenger, a monster hunter, a mutant, and super powered screw up battle over the top enemies in over the top fashion. It’s pure parody and with Warren Ellis writing and Stuart Immonen drawing it’s just great comics.

Well, shit. It looks like Ampersand over at the Weekly Crisis just did a post about Nextwave. Unbelievable! On the same day! And what’s worse is they got double page scans of the huge fight scenes at the end of Vol 2. How do they do that? My scanner sucks. I guess we’ll have to settle for team introductions here at POTW.

Roll Call:

Tabitha is a mutant with the ability to create time bombs that she detonates by muttering the catch phrase ‘tick tick tick BOOM!’

Aaron Stack, better known as Machine Man, puts robot rights first and fleshy humans second. Or any mammal for that matter.

The Captain, or Captain #$@% as he originally called himself, doesn’t remember his real name but it’s ok. He’s wicked strong and he can fly.

Elsa Bloodstone is a second generation monster hunter. She’s strong and fast and durable and quite, quite British.

Monica Rambeau, previously the afro’d Captain Marvel of Avengers fame, leads Nextwave by just barely putting up with the rest of the squad. She can also turn into lasers beams and stuff.