Blind Prophecy

So on my comic book trip this week, I saw a trade paperback for NextWave: Agents of H.A.T.E., a marvel title I haven’t paid much attention to. Why hasn’t someone told me about this sooner? The book is a cracktastic collection of cracking crack to the crack degree. For the last 20 pages I was laughing out loud and thinking “that has to be the funniest joke in the book.” But then I’d turn the page and something even funnier would happen.

For example, cute wubbly koala bears… of DEATH!
Fear my robotic head.
Captain America telling Captain Marvel to stop looking at the evil naked villains and go home and fix his dinner in the most condescending “I’m stuck in the 50s” way possible…

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The concept of the book is that these largely discarded Marvel characters have formed a team to fight terrorism. Only it turns out that the organization that hired them and funded them is a front for a terrorist organization. Our band of heros don’t much like each other, snark constantly, riff on comic book conventions (“The Captain” with his “generic set of super-hero abilities” is a parody of all the Marvel characters who have been “Captain something-or-other”… Captain America, Captain Marvel, Captain Britain, Captain Forsa, etc.).

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So yeah, they reference Deathrace 2000, they snark like no one’s business, and they put the subtext right out there (like Cable’s fascinations with big guns). In short, I highly reccomend this book to comic fans.

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