Namorita par Eric Canete
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This first installment, though, is more about setting the scene. The New Warriors had been created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, who had introduced the team in two issues of their THOR run. The group was created with the intention of spinning out a series, and they were conceived as something of a Marvel answer to DC’s Teen Titans—young heroes who would have their own ideas about how to fight injustice that maybe didn’t line up with those of the more established adult heroes. The group was made up mainly of characters who had been scavenged from elsewhere: Kid Nova, who had previously been just Nova until Frankie Raye stole his code-name when she became the Herald of Galactus, Namorita from Bill Everett’s SUB-MARINER, Marvel Boy, who was the present day version of future Guardian of the Galaxy Vance Astro, Firestar, who had been created for the animated SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS and Speedball, who’d headlined a short-lived series a year or so previous. The only new character was Night Thrasher, a driven Batman-esque urban crime-fighter who fought the underworld atop an armored skateboard.
After their first appearance in THOR, we in the office were not kind to the New Warriors. They were derided as a tone-deaf out-of-touch attempt by middle aged men to write a book about young people, which came across as authentically as Bob Haney’s Teen Titans had in the 1960s. I can recall that Greg Wright and Evan Skolnick even had the splash page that introduced the team pinned up on the office dartboard, where it was full of holes. Nobody thought this was an idea with much merit, and nobody was especially angling to write the series. Well, nobody except this one guy who worked in the sales department.
Fabian Nicieza had been scrabbling around the edges for a couple of years, hungry to break into the field as a writer and taking any assignment that was thrown his way, often dedicating a lot more effort to them than they were seemingly worth. Despite the fact that he didn’t have much of a track record, his pitch for the title beat out several other more established would-be authors (just because nobody thought the book had any future didn’t mean that people didn’t want to earn some checks from it) Editor Danny Fingeroth paired Fabian up with artist Mark Bagley, who had been the winner of the Marvel Try-Out Contest some years earlier. This would be Bagley’s first launch series as well—he’d been doing piecework all around the line, including a lot of stuff for licensing.
The combination of Fabian as the boundary-pushing tyro, Danny as the conservative-minded traditionalist and Bagley as the mainstream meat-and-potatoes artist formed an effective triumvirate. NEW WARRIORS became something of a surprise hit, and one of the real bright spots of the early 1990s Marvel line. The team took the characters seriously, gave them rich backgrounds and internal conflicts and connections, and put them in gray area situations where the right thing to do often wasn’t very clear-cut. It was really a terrific book. But Bagley left to shift over to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN after 25 issues, and a busier Fingeroth had to turn the series and its eventual spin-offs NOVA and NIGHT THRASHER over to his then-Associate Editor Rob Tokar to manage. Replacement artist Darick Robertson lasted most of the way up to issue #50, at which point he stepped off as well, replaced by Richard Pace. More crucially, after years of seemingly-endless expansion, the marketplace began to contract as the speculator boom dried up overnight. Consequently, plans for a second spin-off NEW WARRIORS title didn’t come to fruition, despite Fabian having built his big storyline leading into #50 around bringing in all of the heroes who would be a part of the second book. Frustrated by this, and by an overall lack of respect for the work he had been doing on the series, Fabian decided that his final issue would be #53—he had plenty of other work to focus on at that point, primarily X-MEN.
Source : substack de Tom Breevoort
Je crois qu’on peut pas plus encapsuler les années 90 que cette phrase
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New Warriors : L’intégrale 1992
Rien ne va plus pour les New Warriors : Night Fighter a quitté l’équipe, Marvel Boy a tué son père et la gouvernante du groupe est en fait une vilaine surpuissante ! Quels sont les plans de Tai et a-t-elle réellement été derrière la création du groupe ? Vance Astrovik sera-t-il jugé coupable pour le meurtre de son père ? Et ce n’est pas tout : l’équipe recrute deux nouveaux membres ! Dernier volume illustré par Mark Bagley (Ultimate Spider-Man). Mais la série New Warriors reste entre de bonnes mains avec Fabian Nicieza toujours au scénario, accompagné de Darick Robertson (The Boys), qui illustre ici son premier épisode, jamais publié en France ! En bonus, une série d’Annuals associant les Warriors à Spider-Man !
- ASIN : B0F1Y18236
- Éditeur : Panini
- Date de publication : 17 septembre 2025
- Langue : Français
- Nombre de pages de l’édition imprimée : 320 pages