Hence why I felt I didn't have to commit after the first two issues.
I mention this all the time about CW, "When was the last time you saw the New Warriors being used anywhere?", but it comes off as a bitter pill as half the founders are dead, their name is mud and Speedball is a pariah (who may die whenever Jenkins wants a bonus check).
I pose this choice; would you rather a C-Lister spend years in Limbo, or be used, but act nothing like themselves, be used in a manner in which they're a cardboard cypher, and their only recent experience (i.e., the experience Marvel's executives use) will be said title? I'd rather them in limbo, thanks. Then I could hope somewhere in the future they could be used seriously and efficiently. Sure, people know who Elsa Bloodstone is. But all they know her as is a British femm stereotype with huge knockers who serves as a cypher for Lara Croft. And you could argue she WAS made to copy Lara Croft. But she could grow beyond that. Thanks to Nextwave, she never will. I'll call it now. It's all she'll be remembered for for the next 5 years at least. Same with all the others.
Again, if Ellis had just created spoofs, like Dirk Anger or "The Captain", then I could live with it. But when you mangle C-Listers like that who can't bounce back from being mishandled like an A or even B lister sometimes can, then I tune out.
Name me the last time a C-List character was used as a goofy comic relief in a soul-less narrative for over a year and then returned in a serious, competant manner for a purpose OTHER than to die. At Marvel. She-Hulk doesn't count. Her book's not a pure comedy.
I just figured a book whose characters have no souls, where the skits are as random as AQUA TEAM HUNGER FORCE (lord, I could almost kill Monty Python for convincing every comedic wanna-be that "random" is instantly funny; it's not. Sometimes it works and sometimes it makes you wonder what kind of acid the writer was on) and that's just not my thing.
Oh, and I could say the same "non-decompressed" thing about X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. It's a fun superhero book. Sure, the major flaw is that if it's the adventures of the teen X-Men, then it's "ten years ago" and you can't have modern references or designs for Cerebro. But compared to NEXTWAVE, that's nothing. The first issue was good clean fun. But like Nextwave, it's pointless. Do I hear anyone singing that book's praises?
Compressed stories alone aren't enough for me. It has to be part of a whole package and to me Nextwave was a title that did more harm to the MU than good for me.
And to quote Ellis:
), but I still don't take it seriously. Really, Dread, if all of these were third tier character that you didn't care for I don't think you would be complaining so much.
That kind of respect to the creator and fans of the character?
Or does he get a free pass because he's "funnier" to a broader audience?
