Anyone remember this ill-fated line of comics? It was conceived by Jim Shooter in 1986 and lasted until 1989.
Here are some titles that might be familiar to any of you---
Codename:Spitfire(formerly Spitfire and the Troubleshooters) DP7(Displaced Paranormals) Justice Kickers,Inc. Marc Hazzard-MERC Nightmask PSI-Force The Star Brand
According to a Wikipedia article,this was to be a distinctly separate world,fully divorced from the mainstream Marvel Universe,consisting of its own continuing characters and stories in a more realistic setting. There would be no aliens or hidden races,gods or mythological beings,magic, or supertechnology. Superhuman characters and powers would be limited,and thus more subdued in their activities,yet their actions would have realistic consequences.
New Universe was created during the 25th Anniversary of Marvel.
Any other New Universe facts you have,just leave a post!
[ December 01, 2012, 01:53 AM: Message edited by: Reboot ]
Posted by Matthew E on :
I remember it. I got the first few issues of DP7 and Psi-Force. Don't remember much about Psi-Force, but I can still list all the members of DP7:
Antibody Mastodon Viva Friction Twilight Blur Scuzz
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
I picked up a couple issues of Nightmask, Starbrand, Psi-Force and DP7, but the only one I actually stuck with was "Justice" (must've been that mullet). I'll certainly see where Ellis goes with it.
ComicBookResources has an interesting article: New Universal
As a side note, if not for the New Universe, I may not have discovered the Legion. Why? Because it was in "Justice" that I first saw Keith Giffen's art and that's what made me pick up my first LSH issue, the OYL reboot #1.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I was on board with "New Universe" from the beginning, collecting Star Brand, Spitfire, Nightmask and Justice, then, when the line was trimmed to four books, I bought all four.
Nightmask was a great book but ahead of its time.
When Peter David took over Justice, he made it FANTASTIC. The last issue of that title, BTW, was my first ROFL from Peter David's work. In it, one of the characters tells another the following joke:
A man knocks on the door of a house, and says, "I'm sorry to tell you this, ma'am, but I think I ran over your cat."
"Are you sure it's mine?" asks the lady. "What did it look like?"
"It looked like this," the man says (joke teller sticks out tongue and moved hands into "zombie" position to indicate mangled dead cat).
"No, no," the lady says, "what did it look like before you hit it?"
"Oh," replies the man, "it looked like this" (joke teller holds hands up with look of pop-eyed, screaming fright on his face).
It was a funny enough joke in and of itself. Then, at a later point in the story during which those characters are captured by the villain, and he's "monologging" to them (to borrow a term from the Incredibles), those characters make the faces at one another and laugh together. The villain is standing there, sputtering, "Don't laugh! I'm talking to you!"
Posted by Omni Craig on :
DP7 was always my favorite, but I'm a sucker for team books. I wanted to like StarBrand, but I am not a fan of Romita so that made it a hard pill to swallow.
I hated when they had Quasar visit their universe though. What happened to "separate" realities? I think he used the StarBrand's power to get home.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
I was a big DP7 fan too. It is a real shame such a great concept got exiled to limbo. Ah well...
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
DP7 never really appealed to me, too much like an X-Men clone.
Posted by Fanfic Lady on :
Seems like whenever Marvel does flirt with the New Universe, it's all Star Brand-this and Star Brand-that.
As a huge fan of D.P. 7 and Psi-Force, I end up shrugging and skipping it.
I was also a big fan of Strikeforce Moritori, which launched around the same time, IIRC, but wasn't part of the New Universe, being in it's own third continuity...
The announcement almost makes it sound like Marvel about to have their own Crisis. Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
Any New Universe treatment almost always has to be Starbrand-centered. It was the reason for pretty much everything (except maybe Kickers, Inc. ) From the looks of it, they're just bringing back some NU concepts rather than the actual characters (judging by Nightmask's appearance), which would be a shame.
Definitely sounds like Marvel's "Crisis." When's the Shadowline gonna pop up? I could use me some Dr. Zero ...
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