Warren Ellis' Nextwave, Black Summer, and Supergod. The first is just a joke on Marvel continuity, the second is about fallout from a US government superhero program, and the third is the aftermath of a superhuman arms race which ends up creating inhuman monsters. Ellis also did No Hero and considers it part of a trilogy with the latter two, but I've never read it.
Well, the Marvel continuity has been running continuously for more than 50 years, and it's all still technically "canon." More recent writers have taken this into account, but needless to say, there's a lot of absurdity and nonsense that's popped up over the years, and Nextwave went out of its way to dig it up and showcase it, in all its bizarre glory.
"The series frequently uses flashback scenes in which existing Marvel characters such as Captain America, Ulysses Bloodstone and the Celestials act grossly out of character for comedic purposes."
Warren Ellis' Nextwave, Black Summer, and Supergod. The first is just a joke on Marvel continuity, the second is about fallout from a US government superhero program, and the third is the aftermath of a superhuman arms race which ends up creating inhuman monsters. Ellis also did No Hero and considers it part of a trilogy with the latter two, but I've never read it.
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Well, the Marvel continuity has been running continuously for more than 50 years, and it's all still technically "canon." More recent writers have taken this into account, but needless to say, there's a lot of absurdity and nonsense that's popped up over the years, and Nextwave went out of its way to dig it up and showcase it, in all its bizarre glory.
"The series frequently uses flashback scenes in which existing Marvel characters such as Captain America, Ulysses Bloodstone and the Celestials act grossly out of character for comedic purposes."
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Nextwave is amazing. Total slapstick deconstruction of the stupidest tropes in comic books. It has a theme song.
The Ellis run on the Authority was really good too