This book is crazy! It's like a mix of the Losers and Kot's Secret Avengers. The kind of series that makes you wonder how it was allowed to get made but at the same time, you're thankful. The line up is one that, aside from Monica Rambeau, I've never heard of. I'm not sure if the rest of these characters appear here first or they are small characters from Marvel history. I suspect the former because this introduces them as if they're brand new characters. The humor here surprised me. I laughed o...

There is nothing more fun than reading a book that the creators obviously had a ridiculously fun time making. Wolverine and the X-Men, Sex Criminals, Superior Spider-Man, Casanova, Atomic Robo, The Goon, Chew, and NEXTWAVE.These are my bibles, the salve to soothe the addled and jangled mind of a corporate whore, someone for whom creativity is measured in how subtle the joke must be before it escapes the attention of Human Resources - the subtle flourish of choosing a colour that is not Sanctione...

I loved reading this, a classic piece of Warren Ellis silliness. Girls, guns, girls with guns, evil underpant wearing lizard fiends, it has everything, wrapped in his trademark humour and disrespect for pretty much everything. The book follows the shenanigans of a group of old C-list Marvel heroes as they turn the tables on their former employer who has just been exposed as a terrorist organisation bent on blowing up parts of the world, avoiding mental breakdown and freeing scary pant wearing li...

Perhaps it's funny after a beer. The thing is I didn't have a beer.

HATE are the Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, aka, like SHIELD, someone really wanted to spell HATE! Dirk Anger (of course) is the Director, a bile-spewing Spider Jerusalem knockoff, and his agents of HATE (or are they Nextwave? Ah, I don’t care!) are Machine Man, a sassy robot who likes beer, Monica Rambeau, a former Captain Marvel, Elsa Bloodstone, a sorceress or something, and some weirdo called The Captain who used to have a dirty name. Together they fight Fin Fang Foom, a giant dragon who’s w...

Warren Ellis regularly has jarringly original ideas with superheroes. He's the one that turned a one-issue Justice League stories into four-issue cinematic experiences with The Authority. Planetary is the best homage-comic there is. Nextwave doesn't tread quite so nicely on superhero conventions. Ellis calls Nextwave a "remix" book, which almost has it. He brings together several of the lamer characters in the Marvel Universe (Photon, Boom Boom, Machine Man), and has them fight a S.H.I.E.L.D. an...

Oops, this just ain't happening. I thought this was an off-brand superhero book but it's Marvel, replete with references and in-jokes that I have no interest in deciphering. And a dragon that wears 50 foot long shorts. And torturously PG'd dialogue such as: "Well played, you disturbing metal-faced object, you." and "Bite my cordite, lanky!" Hell no.

I often look to "best of" or "top" type lists to get inspiration on what to read next. I find that I discover more comics that way and also, it gets me interested in some that I would've not paid attention to previously. In these types of lists, there are evergreen picks that are always present. And while this one isn't usually one of the top contenders, it is constantly present.NextWave: Agents of HATE is an interesting book. Its very snappy and quirky, while at the same time being very charact...

The back of this book says “If you like anything, you will love Nextwave”. I guess according to Marvel, I don’t like anything.What’s it about?This group of not very well known superheroes fights stuff... that’s pretty much the storyline.Pros:The art is very good! I think Immonen is a great artist for sure!The action scenes are fantastic. Ellis is great at writing exciting action and Immonen is great at drawing it so we get a really good combo here!The highlight of this one is the humor. I didn’t...

Nextwave, Agents of HATE, an anti-terrorist group of super heroes, discovers that HATE and it's parent company, the Beyond Corporation, are actually terrorists. Nextwave decides to make things right by blowing lots of shit up.I've been hearing about Nextwave for years and it sounded right up my alley but I never got around to reading it. Thanks to some free time and my Marvel Unlimited subscription, I've now remedied that.The Nextwave cast is a lot of second and third string Marvel characters th...

I guess I'm not really the target audience for this book. I suppose it's an understatement to say it's over the top in terms of the violence and language. I get that it's a parody of the more violent comics out there. I think it just leaned a little heavily on that and didn't give enough character development for my taste. All of this is acknowledged in the back matter. Nextwave is what it is. It just isn't my kind of thing. But don't let that stop you from checking it out if a comic full of bro...

Well, I'm not crazy about it, but it did make me laugh. Nice stuff, but I imagine for someone like Ellis this was nothing more than a paycheck he had some fun with.

12/5/15: Re-reading for Book Club and seriously, it is still a riot. I may have to buy this series because it is too spectacularly absurd. I can't stop laughing out loud and I'm in public. I don't care. Words were invented so that they could be this funny.12/28/10: OMG. This is singularly the funniest thing I've read in a very, very long time. Hilarious. Just, frakking hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing out loud and woke up my sleeping husband several times. (Poor fellow.) I may have to buy the...

Review for both volumes of Nextwave. What this is, in a nutshell, is an excuse for explosions and big fight scenes, held together by sarcasm. It's (mostly) a satire of overly action-oriented comics, while still enjoying huge fight scenes. Shallow? Sometimes. Any substantive value in plot or characters? God, no. Fun? Absolutely.

Book Info: This collection contains Nextwave, Agents of H.A.T.E. issues #1-6.Other Useful Reviews: Martin's review, Jordan Lahn's review, and Sesana's reviewABSOLUTE RATING: {3+/5 stars}STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>Nextwave is a group of five superheroes working for General Dirk Anger – director of H.A.T.E. (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort). When the group finds out that their employer was being funded and armed by the Beyond Corporation, (i.e. a former terrorist cell turned power-hungry co...

Most of the time, comics do not benefit from deep and patient consideration. The vast majority owe their popularity to a world of powerless men trapped in a work-a-day world that provides them little pride and less edification. Readers of history often fantasize about living in another age, readers of travelogues imagine impossibly pricey vacations, and fans of Romance want an 'unbound pillar of desire', which I think is a piece by Rodin.Likewise, many comic readers have been happy for little mo...

NextWave: Agents of H.A.T.E., Volume 1: This is What They Want bring together and 'eclectic' band of Superheroes in crazy adventures as they take on creatures and Supervillains from all over the place! :D This gives them plenty of opportunity for witty observations of the foes and and social commentary on the way which really gives the book an edge to its storytelling! :D The jokes though flow thick and fast throughout ranging from Feminism to Government and will have you ribs hurting throughout...

Quite possibly the greatest comic in the history of comics.

This book was hilarious. A complete take off on Marvel, teams such as the Avengers, and organizations such as SHIELD, as well as an over-the-top joke bad guy who's obviously Nick Fury: Dirk Anger, who is 90 years old, takes lots of drugs, smokes cigarettes and cigars, drinks whiskey and eats raw animals.Throw in all kinds of jabs at regular Marvel, including the former Captain Marvel, and some foul mouthed characters and you've got a funny book.This collects issues 1-6, there's a second volume t...