new warrior #2 review

this next issue is actually boring to me, the first one barley kept my attention even though it was just a basic team book. the problem was that they writing wasn't engaging i wasn't able to care about the characters. with could have worked in the 60's but they needed to catch up and give these characters some good backstories. this one actually is where we learn about night thrashers past.
the book starts with three cops getting killed by midnight fire. that's the guys name not what did the killing. this guy who has the ability to have a horrible name is the villain. while the team are training they get news of the dead cops who had a note on them that said "thrashed by the night", i wonder who they are trying to lore out.

we see Dwayne fighting crime a few months ago i guess he felt suspenders would protect him from the bullets flying at him. apparently the crime he helped stop was actually a double cross that midnights fire had been in the middle of stopping from the inside. god dammit he has a stupid name! and if they don't call him that they call him fire which is still stupid!

anyway, night thrasher, midnights fire and silhouette decide to fight crime together, this is the last time i mention their names! i swear. as night thrasher puts it they "thrashed"the gang operations.during this he was doing fire's sister sil.

apparently as they were trying to get a in with a new gang a cop spots them.


but seriously look at that they were begging to get caught, its the middle of the day and they are out in the open with assault rifles! there's even people all around them!
the consequence of their stupidity is that sil gets shoot up real bad and the gang guy and the cop dies. but in the eyes of midnights fire this is all night thrashers fault of course this reference makes sense cause they were on the streets when they were fighting!

then they go to china Town to fight fire's gang. then the story becomes a bad Saturday morning cartoon where the hero has to face his arch villain. thrash fights fire at first is losing but get the upper hand,but before he can kill him but then silhouette appears alive but not so well.


then the plot becomes stupid. because it comes to light that fire killed the cops so that no body would notice his warehouse stocked with huge illegal highly dangerous tech weapons.

okay now think about this he killed three cops so no one would come after him! that's like the opposite of what you are supposed to do! those he seriously think that no one would notice dead cops? even the start of the issue they make there plans clear kill cops and then use the weapons to "obscure my involvement". how does that work! i thought he wanted to keep these guns secret.so to keep them secret he has to start using them! the very noticeable and impossible to miss munition.

oh but it gets better fire's gang then threaten to fire their weapons into the crowd of people, yes the people they are apparently paid to protect and with the weapons that they were willing to kill to keep secret.



the warriors take out the weapons
Sil dis owns her brother and the warriors are left to wonder whether thrash would have killed fire if he wasn't talked down or not

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so that was issue 2 and was it any better? no....no it fucking wasn't.
this plot is so bad i can't think anything else to say. the villian is bad, the the story is bad the hero is so bland that he could been replaced with any 90's anti hero, and the art felt rushed for some reason(the drug bust looked like day time!)
i hate giving any comic a low score but i have to 1 out of 5. you can easily skip this issue and you wouldn't have to worry about missing anything.

join me again next time as i review issue 3, stay tuned and spread the word thanks.

new warrior #1 review!! my first comic review!

the new warriors were at some point the next big thing. or maybe just marketing thing i don't know i wasn't around back then. but i can only assume that they tried to make a big deal about them just from the cover

THE NEW HEROES FOR THE 90's! popping out ripping through the number 1 issues of legendary book like x-men fantastic four and for some reason alpha flight. those this book warrant such claims as "the next generation of super hero excitement"? lets find out.

we open to page one and are introduced to night thrasher a new creation for this book who will act as team leader but at the moment it seems he's doing what any hero would do threaten someone with death, our honorable hero ladies and gentlemen. and in a extreme totally rad manner he drops the guy. but don't worry it turns out the guy was actually nova! thrash is lucking cause if rider's powers hadn't kicked in he would have one very dead teenage superhero. kind of a dick move but whatever I'm not the superhero.

now we see marvel boy who apparently is high up on the "boggle scale". also batman shirt in the corner. ) and so we see Vance(his real name) try to impress the avengers
,he does not. after cap tells him to take a hike night thrasher waves him down. i just think it funny that that how he is brought into the warriors the equivalent of "hey you! yeah you!,wanna join our vigilante group?"

then namorita is introduced she's a college student (weird for an atlantean) and is in queens with her class to ask questions about the contaminated ground and how genetech (evil big business) is gonna fix it.

we then see night thrasher's base of operation, a high rise in Manhattan. we also learn his backstory he's batman. only difference is he has a Asian lady and black dude as his alfreds. then thrash explains he hacked shield to find nova and marvel boy. they don't approve of this act of terrorism but its not like he is trying to get these total strangers to trust him so they can fight crime together.
he then calls firestar and threatens to reveal her alter ego to the world she doesn't take it well.

back in queens... genetech unwail there "ambient ionic energy locator and collator" or simply put a machine that cleans dirt. but it turns out environmentalism really doesn't work because Terrax (the ex- herald of Galactus) explodes out of the machine.

the boys are then greeted by a angry firestar
, but before anyone can be formally introduced there is an earthquake. all sighs point to queens so they head off but not before firestar says something clever!

namorita is get her ass whooped but is saved by "these brave new warriors who have burst onto the scene". speedball ditches his mom and decided to help.

meanwhile... the warriors are not doing well especially night thrasher whos plan was use skateboard and throw smoke pellets... nice job
speedball makes bad joke
marvel boy those this with him then this happens to terrax

then Dr. scientist explains "terrax was a disembodied sentient energy form that needed constant groundsoil replenishment". which means if he isn't on the ground he explodes.

the avengers come in to take the glory and the gathered heroes contemplate their futures. they decided to fight the crime the avengers never touch, so they join hands as THE FANTASTIC FOUR!.... I MEAN NEW WARRIORS.

but was it truly the beginning of a legend? not really i mean most remember them as the guys who started civil war.
this meant well and seemed to have the makings of something that could have been good but was stuck as a promotional tool for the decade never being more then a joke. the art was exceptional being drawn buy mark bagely who even the casual reader may know as the original artist for ultimate spiderman, the writing wasn't great but wasn't the worst just a bit corny filled to the brim with moldy jokes and dated references(fabian nicieza). a great effort i give it 3.5 out of 5.


stay tuned to this blog though because i will be going through each issue of the new warriors starting here at issue 1 too issue 50, those it get better? lets hope so this is the comicbook specialist and i hope to see you again.

same pic for different comics

for some reason this month has become new warriors month and i have just had lots to talk about regarding the new heroes for the 90's. this is the striking resemblance of these two poses in two different issues of new warriors i don't consider this plagiarism for a few reasons mostly because its by the same artist the very talented mark bagely. you can also argue that its not exactly the same cause really it isn't it just has the same basic parts like the knife, the moon in the back and even the chimney. but they are still not a trace. its likely that mark just thought that looked cool.

also these are issues 18 (on the left) and issue 1 (to the right) from the original run

i forgot darkhawk! he's a new warrior!

i forgot darkhawk from the avengers set! when i was talking about my new warriors heroclix i had forgotten about darkhawk

he was in the new warriors too but i just completely forgot. its not like he is a bad character or even a horrible clix but it completely went over my head.
actually the clix as actually not to bad for back up he has leap/climb, energy explosion, and toughness with 3 damage first clix. not bad and is versatile for range or close-range. in the middle he has regen if you wanna bring him back to top health easier. after that he a lot better for range he has energy shield/ deflection and penetrating/psychic blast.
if you are newer to heroclix and want a character that is simpler to use and can hold his own in lower point game.


character is from avengers set.

new warriors heroclix!!!

this is the new warriors!! thats right the heroes for the 90's and they are here now in the form of heroclix the game that is growing into one of the premiere board based strategy games. i love it and it can only be rivaled by d&d. the new warriors being one of my favorite teams especially when they first came out i gathered them from various sets and have made the original line-up and scarlet spider who was there for a short time. I do find it kinda messed up that that these are basically all the new warriors you can get at least in modern sets I don't know much of older sets. its still cool that you can make the original line up but there are others that i would also like turbo(either the boy,girl or a duo piece),rage(dude he is in the initiative!perfect timing!),silhouette, bandit(as night thrasher or bandit w/e).
while we're at it we need a night thrasher update his stats don't hold up to well as a vet. he is good but it can be reworked into something better i mean he did hold his own against punisher in a hand to hand fight. also quick thing about his stats if you use him for range you are stupid.
I can also stand for a new justice just because he has gotten better and he has become a good character. speedball would be cool but that isn't a must do thing for the future. thats all i got to say so to quote night thrasher at the end of issue one from the first series "thats it. end of discussion."

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both of these were done relatively quick and i am so happy about that. the scarlet spider was actually difficult cause i was in the car. the piranha plant i did because i hap just finished a drawing of a tree and my brain was stuck on plant life. if you wanna see my old highschool art you can go to http://idiotbox2099.deviantart.com/ I will also start to update stuff cause i have been doing very little on the Internet lately.