Warren Ellis Nextwave preview

Newsarama has a preview of Warren Ellis' new Marvel series, Nextwave. This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. It's got some of that great humor that you see in Red Dwarf, but applied to the Marvel Universe. Ellis has a bunch of C-listers (Machine Man, Elsa Bloodstone, the former Captain Marvel\Photon) joining H.A.T.E. (Highest Anti Terrorism Effort). H.A.T.E. seems a lot like S.H.I.E.L.D. because they having a flying headquarters and are lead by General Anger. Anger isn't missing an eye, but he has some kind of device covering one. I laughed at this bit, where Anger talks about why he is still alive, which is clearly based on Nick Fury's use of the Infinity Formula to keep himself ticking in the 21st Century:

Anger: "You know how I look so pretty? I take drugs. Special H.A.T.E. drugs. Life-extending drugs. H.A.T.E. has the best drugs. Because H.A.T.E. loves me. And I love H.A.T.E. Every day of my horrible drug extended terrorist fighting life. Everyday I smoke two hundred cigarettes and one hundred cigars and drink a bottle of whisky and three bottles of wine with dinner. And dinner is meat...raw meat. The cook serves me an entire animal and I fight it bare-handed and tear off what I want and eat it and have the rest buried. In New Jersey! For H.A.T.E.!"

Damn, that is just so funny. General Anger is going to become my favorite Marvel character if he keeps that up. Nuff said.

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