Nextwave

On a wave of good reviews I decided to take the plunge and buy not one but both volumes of Warren Ellis's Nextwave, and I really don't regret it.

Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. features some old, little used Marvel cahracters on the run from H.A.T.E., their own team after discovering it was in fact all a front for the Beyond Corpora ton to test WMDs on America. The team includes Monica Rambau (Photon) Aaron Stack (Machine Man), Tabitha smith (Boom Boom), Elsa Bloodstone and a new character called The Captain. From that synopsis it sounds serious and dark, it isn't.

Nextwave is bonkers, absolutely mental, ignore continuity, ignore common sense and enjoy the daft ride as this mismatched group of misfits fight ever more bizarre foes. What other series would have Fin Fang Foom threaten to put one of the team in his pants, and you have General Dirk Anger chasing them in more and more unhinged ways. It is glorious daftness, now go, buy it before I release the Drop Bears