Happy 29th Birthday to New Warriors #1.

Corey Blake, who runs the New Warriors Continuity Conundrum as well as the Let’s Talk New Warriors Twitter account reminded me that it’s the 29th Birthday of New Warriors #1.

I remember reading New Warriors #1 when it first came out. I was an avid collector of Thor so, I got to see the New Warriors make their debut there. I immediately recognized Namorita from the pages of Sub-Mariner, Nova from his 25 issue run of his own series, Firestar from the Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends animated series (and how, by the way, is that not out on DVD/BluRay yet?) and Uncanny X-Men (where she officially made her first appearance in comics many years after she appeared in the cartoon). Marvel Boy I didn’t initially recognize (although I was an avid reader of Avengers), and Speedball was completely foreign to me. But because of the obscure characters I did recognize (Night Thrasher made his first appearance in the issue before) – and if you know me, I love obscure characters. The Internet was pretty new to the world, and so I did searches for New Warriors online and couldn’t find anything. So I launched a site – very, very, very primitive on Geocities (now gone, absorbed by Yahoo) and opened an eGroup (also gone, and absorbed by Yahoo, to become Yahoo Groups) for the New Warriors. A few years back, I uploaded the banners I used for the site. You can see those here. As the Internet evolved, I tried to keep up – my wife purchased me the domain for NewWarriors.com – I launched a Facebook page (and Facebook Group more recently). You can see a brief recap, because that was 19 years ago I launched NewWarriors.com.

You can read a synopsis of every issue of the New Warriors on this site. Want to celebrate Issue #1? You can read about it here.

What should we do for the 30th year? I’d love to hear some ideas. I was thinking everyone could meet on the New Warriors Discord Channel I made, and we could just voice chat about the New Warriors and record it, and I could make it a part of the super, ultra-rare New Warriors podcast thing I do every other-other blue moon.

• Tawmis