Nextwave #5! Koala Bears! Explosions!

[Jake V]

Quite possibly the greatest 22 pages of story that marvel has ever released. The story really isn't that importent as long as people get kicked and things blow up. And they do.

Some choice lines include:
"Cover your eyes, go back to Avengers mansion, and make my dinner."

"Tabitha! Quickly! To me my X-Bait! Help me lift my gun! Techno-organic prolapse imminent!"

[Doom Hammer]

Theissue starts off with the Nextwave Squad going to destroy a War Garden, from which the Human Resources Broccoli-Men are grown.

H.A.T.E. beats them there, explosions ensue, ridiculously strange UWMD's are dropped, Koala Bears fall from the sky, but none of that's important. What's important is a line delivered by Captain America to Monica Rambeau in a flashback that is WAY too funny to be spoiled in a message board. Holy crap, I almost died. I didn't even like this book at first, but it's totally found its place now, and this issue was worth the wait.

Now what'd we learn?

Aaron is ****.

...also, even a robot can cry.

Celestials are a bunch of ****s.

Cable has big guns.

Koalas are super cute, and Elsa has some serious qualms about shooting them.

...however, that does not stop her from shooting Koalas.

Dirk Anger thinks he's fat.

Best. Issue. (Of Nextwave). Ever.

And CBR got referred to in the letters page. So hey, there ya' go.

[Doom Hammer]

Goddamn you, Jake V. You beat me by two minutes. I waited all day because I figure you'd post one, and as soon as I decide to, you ruin my day.

Funny how similar the opinions are...

[Expletive Deleted]

Arishem The Judge . . . brilliant.

Fear my robot head . . . brilliant.

Lizard Boom Sticks . . . brilliant.

Sci-fi kung-fu bullets . . . brilliant.

I <heart> Nextwave.

[ultramandingo]

"moo haa ha ha".................did any one get the "crayon butchery variant" ? if i won that contest id wana "combat ptarodactyl suit" of my own

[Jake V]

"moo haa ha ha".................did any one get the "crayon butchery variant" ? if i won that contest id wana "combat ptarodactyl suit" of my own
I got it. My store sold it to me for like 2 bucks, so I bought 2. One to color in, one to.... i dunno yet.

[Joe Rice]

This wasn't a superhero comic book. There wasn't enough crying and there was too much enjoyment. I want my angstdollar back.

[Karl J. Barnes]

This wasn't a superhero comic book. There wasn't enough crying and there was too much enjoyment. I want my angstdollar back.

You'll have to wait, since the dollar is in the corner mumbling to itself right now.

[ultramandingo]

This wasn't a superhero comic book. There wasn't enough crying and there was too much enjoyment. I want my angstdollar back.


i thought dirks head in the toilet thing was pretty angst-y, lets see peter parker try that

[Karl J. Barnes]

i thought dirks head in the toilet thing was pretty angst-y, lets see peter parker try that

Peter is angst-y, Dirk is deranged...big difference.

[Young Avenger]

"Suffer fleshy ones. Fear my robot head." I heart Nextwave!

Did anyone else think that the Koalas look like Stitch?

[ultramandingo]

Peter is angst-y, Dirk is deranged...big difference.
what about geting "colored" with crayons .......i guess thats more "emo"

[The Sentry]

One of the best books Marvel is putting out.

[KenK]

Oh lord, this issue was hilarious! The Captain American line was funny as hell!

God, I hope Immonen doesn't leave the book anytime soon, though.

This is an ongoing, right?

[The Sentry]

12 issue finite series.

[ultramandingo]

bad signal
waren ellis

NEXTWAVE 5 came out yesterday.

There's a golfer on the pub tv
called Retief Goosen. I always
thought Retief was a made-up name.

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Sent via mobile device
road, street or pub

[LordAllMighty]

Cool gotta go to the comic store today:)

[SalazarSleaze2]

lol

Nextwave spoiler/review threads are always full of inane jokes and presumably funny reviews in the spirit of the book.
Even the titles of the threads are supposed to be funny.

Is that the level of humor in the book?

[Jake V]

lol

Nextwave spoiler/review threads are always full of inane jokes and presumably funny reviews in the spirit of the book.
Even the titles of the threads are supposed to be funny.

Is that the level of humor in the book?
There are levels of humor?

Are you like, level 7?

I hear humor level 5 is really tough to beat.

[Expletive Deleted]

I'm a level six Absurdist, myself, but I have almost all the pre-requisites for the Sarcastic Bastard prestige class. Another point or two in Mockery and I'll be good to go.

[SalazarSleaze2]

Thanks for proving my point, guys.
No wonder the book is selling so poorly. :)

[Jake V]

Thanks for proving my point, guys.
No wonder the book is selling so poorly. :)
Eh. It outsells about 225 other books.

No one's under the impression that a book starring Boom Boom and Machine Man will ever crack the top 10.

[Expletive Deleted]

No wonder the book is selling so poorly.Sales only matter in terms of survival, and NEXTWAVE is above the cancellation threshold. So . . . who cares?

Oh, and if I may interject something ever-so-slightly off-topic . . . smilies are the devil.

[Sentinel K]

Nextwave ......is......so......good.


Prolapse.....imminent.


Nggggghhhhhhhhhh.


SPECIAL BEAR'S DEAD!!!!

[Lex]

Thanks for proving my point, guys.
No wonder the book is selling so poorly. :)Oh, my! What is your mother doing to that elephant?!

[Zombienorthstar]

12 issue finite series.



Really...oh that is so wrong....MORE NEXTWAVE JOE Q OR BY ODINS BEARD IM SENDING ROUND THE HAMSTER OF DEATH.

[BizarroBeachHead]

Easily the best issue of Nextwave yet. I can't remember the last time I was this blown away by a comic book.

[Atom_basher]

can someone PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ spoil his line

[Doom Hammer]

can someone PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ spoil his line

Jake actually did in the first post...(we started simultaneous threads so mine came after his, making me look stupid again, which is not hard)...Monica's complaining that she didn't have to deal with such absurdity in the Avengers. She is shown to be a liar when she says, in a flashback, something like, "Those are the Gamma-Activated Bull-Men from beyond the 16th Perimiter!...and they're naked." To which Captain Freakin' America matter-of-factly responds, "Cover your eyes, go back to Avengers Mansion, and make my dinner."

Bwa-ha-ha!

[BizarroBeachHead]

I LOVE that Cable's gun is actually an I Beam.

[Sean Whitmore]

Warren Ellis should write everything there is. Not just comics, everything where the printed word is involved. Billboards. Surgeon General's warnings. Fire safety instructions. Credit card applications...OF DEATH!!!!

Monica: "You are ****. I mean, you're the **** robot I ever heard of."

Celestial: "You are total ****."
Machine Man: "...what?"
Celestial: "No. Really. You're ****."

Celestial: "You're turning away from us. We are speaking to you and you're turning away from us. This is exactly the kind of **** we are talking about here."

Boom Boom: "AAAAA! Death bears!"

Lizard Man: "Schrödinger's death!"

Captain's mom: "Special bear's dead."

Elsa: "Samurai robots beat guns. No question."


SEAN

[ultramandingo]

"Warren Ellis should write everything there is"

"WARREN ELLIS writes comic books and graphic novels, videogames, animation, books, screenplays, tv and anything else he can steal money for"

.....plus hes got a nuther tv thing just waiting to get canceled again

[Sean Whitmore]

.....plus hes got a nuther tv thing just waiting to get canceled again


Y'know, I've had the Global Frequency pilot sitting on my desktop for months, and I've yet to watch it. Maybe the TV execs know the audience better than we know ourselves. :eek:


SEAN

[BizarroBeachHead]

Y'know, I've had the Global Frequency pilot sitting on my desktop for months, and I've yet to watch it. Maybe the TV execs know the audience better than we know ourselves. :eek:


SEAN
Sheesh, what a relief. I thought I was the only one.

[Doom Hammer]

This is going to make a epic, **** fantastic trade or HC. It doesn't even have to try to be awe-inspiring. It just is.

Question:

Someone (Stonegold, maybe? One of the funny guys, I think) had "'Special Bear's dead' - Nextwave #5" in their sig...when Nextwave #1 came out. So...how was that known back then?

[Sean Whitmore]

Someone (Stonegold, maybe? One of the funny guys, I think) had "'Special Bear's dead' - Nextwave #5" in their sig...when Nextwave #1 came out. So...how was that known back then?


That would be I, and thank you for that. :) Warren Ellis had released that scene from his script through his mailing list a few months back. It was actually about the time #2 came out, I think.


SEAN

[Zombienorthstar]

I wish that Marvel and Ellis would state this is in canon so that once the series has finsihed the team can still exsist in the marvl universe.

[DMike]

I think they already said it was in one of those Joe Friday things. Or maybe Warren said it on his site. All I know was that someone involved with the comic said it was canon.

[Young Avenger]

I wish that Marvel and Ellis would state this is in canon so that once the series has finsihed the team can still exsist in the marvl universe.

Tom Brevoort has said that Nextwave is in continuity in his thread in the Civil War forum.

[twilight]

Thanks for proving my point, guys.
No wonder the book is selling so poorly. :)

Cool.
Thanks for dropping by Salazar.

Some of us like our books light-hearted and silly.

[Sentinel K]

Cool.
Thanks for dropping by Salazar.

Some of us like our books light-hearted and silly.

Some of us (me) like books that are fantabulously awemazing.

This is Nextwave.

[Petertime]

lol

Nextwave spoiler/review threads are always full of inane jokes and presumably funny reviews in the spirit of the book.
Even the titles of the threads are supposed to be funny.

Is that the level of humor in the book?


Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Nextwave is a humor comic?:eek:

That's going to changes things when I go back and reread it.

[Tommy]

This is the greatist book EVER! But since even issues of Nextwave are better than odd issues I am betting next issue will blow this one out of the water.

[The Fury]

For an explanation to where exactly Machine Man has been all these years in the MU...it has to be the best explanation they could have thought of.

Best book I read this week easily. :D

[stealthwise]

This book rocked hard. Nowhere can I constantly reread a current title and find something new to laugh my ass off at every time.

[ultramandingo]

bendis -" nextwave- our monthly waren ellis reach around." ...."our"(?) .....dang ! ok, i admit i read bendis stuff , mabey he'll start rippin of ellis intsead of "westwing" ......

[Nick MB]

bendis -" nextwave- our monthly waren ellis reach around." ...."our"(?) .....dang ! ok, i admit i read bendis stuff , mabey he'll start rippin of ellis intsead of "westwing" ......

He rips off West Wing? Where?
Or is this going to be a sophisticated point along the lines of "Bendis characters talk a lot. West Wing characters talk a lot. Therefore..."

To keep it on topic, Nextwave is amazing. Annoyingly, don't get my copy of #5 till next week.

[jaguarshark]

I really hope the book isn't cancelled and Ellis doesn't leave after #12, as has been rumoured... I needed to save money, so I pledged to drop all the ongoing titles I was reading that I didn't enjoy as much as All-Star Superman. So all I've got left are that and Nextwave! And there's rumours All-Star Supes is only going 12 issues, as well.

[streator]

sounds like a good issue.
a question, though:

why wasn't nextwave solicited for august?
has ellis or marvel said when issue 8 will be coming out?

[Stagier]

i love this book, it's retarded and out of control.

[Cowlander]

one of the best books on the market

[Ogre U AHole]

This thread has convinced me to start reading Nextwave.

Bring on the bwah-ha-ha!

[Butch Mapa]

Love it :)

[ultramandingo]

* NEXTWAVE #6 preview halfway down this page:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7493

"dont you try impress me with your english counting. you know i growed up in a trailer park"

[Haunt]

i think Boom Boom needs a new costume. i don't like her current one and it's not trailer park enough.

[streator]

why wasn't nextwave solicited for august?
has ellis or marvel said when issue 8 will be coming out?
anyone? bueller?

[BizarroBeachHead]

* NEXTWAVE #6 preview halfway down this page:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7493

Oh my God. What did Dirk Anger do? I have to know!

[ultramandingo]

"UPDATED: Marvel has released more previews for titles shipping June 28th Nextwave #6 and some other crap thats not Nextwave #6 , but whishes it was "


hey cool ! my 600 post on 6/6/06..............im the devil

[Jack Ketch]

As I understand, Machine Man's last series ended with him meeting the Celestials. So the fact that he'd then been called a loser by Kirby Space Gods provides a nice bit of continuity to explain his new attitude.

That, and Monica appearing in She-Hulk 7 in her Nextwave costume were all the signs I needed to know this was in continuity.

[TommyV]

That, and Monica appearing in She-Hulk 7 in her Nextwave costume were all the signs I needed to know this was in continuity.

I don't remember this at all - is this when she was trying to recruit Avengers to testify for Starfox?

[atoningunifex]

I can't believe how much I am in love with this comic. I wish Warren Ellis would write Legion of SuperHeroes.....