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Valerie was the daughter of Amelia Barnhardt (Sprocket) and Donald Joshua Clendenon (Cardinal) during a one night stand in Rhodesia, during their days as mercenaries. Amelia never told Donald that she was pregnant and Valerie never knew who her father was. By the age of six, she was enrolled in a military academy and when Valerie was old enough, she left home and joined the Air Force, where she became an accomplished pilot. Amelia, her mother, was also an accomplished (helicopter) pilot. However, during her time with the Air Force, Valerie was raped by her commanding officer. Valerie would later retaliate, in an attack that left her commanding officer paralyzed. Because the rape was never properly reported, Valerie was held accountable for her actions that left her commanding officer paralyzed, and was charged as a criminal.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/support/sprocket/meteorite

Sprocket’s one night stand in Rhodesia with fellow mercenary Donald Joshua Clendenon – who would go on to become The Cardinal – nearly twenty one years ago would come back to haunt her.

Preganant with Clendenon’s child, Sprocket decided to keep it a secret and not tell the would be father of their child, and decided to raise the child on her own. Born Valerie Barnhardt, she was enrolled into the military academy when she was just six years old. By the time she turned eighteen, Valerie joined the Air Force and eventually became a Lieutenant, until she paralyzed her commanding officer, who had tried to rape her.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/support/sprocket

Thanks to Marvel Unlimited I was able to get much sharper resolution of the various menaces of Speedball. So now we have better images for Sticker, Ghost of Springdale High, Leaper Logan, Basher, Two Legged Rat, The Harlequin Hitman, and Bonehead! And on top of that, I have added the alien race simply known as The Cat’s Eye!

Donald Joshua Clendenon is a Vietnam Veteran, who met Amelia Barnhardt (who later became Sprocket), and got her pregnant. It had been a one time thing, and he did not know until much later that he had a daughter by the name of Valerie Barnhardt (who went on to become Meteorite of the Redeemers). Clendenon came into possession of a power suit and adopted the name Cardinal, where he became a bodyguard for Jeremy Swimmingbear (also known as Sea Urchin). This job would bring him in direct conflict with the New Warriors, who had been tracking Jeremy Swimmingbear’s movements; which dealt with a Russian organized crime ring, trading stolen icons for sophisticated weaponry. Cardinal manages to defeat the New Warriors and make good of his escape. However, Cardinal would encounter the New Warriors, yet again, when the Warriors tracked down Jeremy Swimmingbear again. This time, both Jeremy Swimmingbear and Cardinal are captured; and Cardinal is placed in police custody.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/enemies/a-c/air-force/cardinal

I’ve been working on getting cleaner/smoother images!

Let’s just run down the list – Turbo (Mike), Wondra, Decibel, Tempest, Skybolt, Phaser, Longstrike, Chord, Firewall, Aqueduct, Skybreaker, and Asylum (I). And I added Sayge to the site.

The origin of Left Hand begins with the Vietnam War. Diego Casseas served with a military unit known as the “Half-Fulls”, and along with the rest of his unit, had stumbled upon an ancient Asian Cult of the Dragon’s Breadth, who were guardians of the Well of All Things; an inter-dimensional Well that was bursting with an array of untapped mystical energy. The Cult of the Dragon’s Breadth had been breeding children who would eventually be capable of accessing the Well’s energies better than any other ever had.

Tai, who would be directly responsible for the creation of the New Warriors, was one of the adults who knew that she would be giving birth to the ones that would bear the children of ‘The Pact.’ She had given birth to her daughter, Miyami; and the other mothers followed suit. Tai, however, killed all that would oppose her, except for the children who would bear the offspring of ‘The Pact’ thus leaving Tai as the sole beneficiary of the Well’s powers when the time was right.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/enemies/d-f/folding-circle/left-hand

Previous to Debrii’s debut on the New Warriors Reality TV show, there is very little known about her past. She was recruited by the studio to add “spice” to the show, in hopes of increasing the ratings.

Debrii’s appearance was not only startling to Terrax, but the New Warriors as well.The clutter and dust she’d kicked up proved to be the exact cover Terrax needed to escape. When Ashley, the show’s producer introduced Debrii as the Warrior’s newest member, there was instant conflict.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/team_members_i/debrii

Trey Rollins grew up in a gang infested area of Brooklyn where violence was a part of everyday life. Most notable were two rival gangs called Born 2 Die and Lobo’s Boys. On his way to school one day, Trey heard something and followed it to an abandoned warehouse where he found the golden breastplate of Aegis.

Trey took up the breastplate and waged his war against crime and gangs in the area, earning himself a reputation among the people as a hero. Sometime later, when the New Warriors engaged in a battle against Blaastar, Nova got knocked out, landing in front of Aegis. Two fans of Aegis, young men named Lester and Payton tell Aegis that he has to help the New Warriors against Blaastar. Nova comes back to the battle, carrying Aegis, who helps them fight against Blaastar, finally defeating him.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/team_members_i/aegis

Donyell was the product of Daryl Taylor and a one-night stand with an unnamed woman. Growing up, Donyell developed an increasing amount of resentment towards Daryl’s legitimate son, Dwayne.

Learning that Dwayne had developed a relationship with Silhouette Chord, Donyell, adopting the name Bandit, seduced Dwayne’s estranged girlfriend before confronting Dwayne. Despite beating Dwayne severely, though evenly matched, Bandit became unstable and abducted Silhouette to lure Dwayne into the final piece of his vengeance.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/team_members_i/bandit and http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/team_members_iii/night-thrasher-ii

It’s difficult to imagine we’ve now hit the 20 year mark that NewWarriors.com has been alive! The New Warriors site I did originally started on Geocities (around 1995 or so?) and I had made it simply because there was no other New Warriors website around (that I ever found). December 13th, 1998 I would go on to make a very active New Warriors eGroup (though much like Geocities, Yahoo purchased eGroups so it eventually became a Yahoo Group) – and much like Geocities, eGroups /Yahoo Groups went away. But the one thing that never went away was the passion for The New Warriors. My wife surprised me (20 years ago, to this day!) by purchasing the domain newwarriors.com – and from there, this site has gone through a ton of revisions. I eventually created a phpBB forum on the site which is where most of the conversation migrated to from eGroups/Yahoo Groups when it came to discussing New Warriors. But by this time, another thing was making waves – and that was this thing called Facebook.

So I grabbed myself a New Warriors Facebook page, directed people in that direction; and the conversations continued. The New Warriors was doing good – we got a second, then a third, and then a fourth series. Then there was news of a New Warriors TV show – this was amazing news – until, one day, it was brought to my attention early in the morning that the Facebook page I’d created was gone – all the content – just… gone. But what was in its place? Well, apparently Marvel contacted Facebook and took over the page and set it up for the show. Even though it looks as if the show is dead in the water, finding no home; I never did get my page restored. But I had created a new Facebook page and Group, figuring as much! (I strongly recommend joining the Facebook Group rather than the page, as the Group is very active and fun!)

Some other ventures including trying to launch a (all too short lived) podcast with fellow New Warriors fan Corey Blake and Nova fanatic Doug Smith. Corey, if you didn’t know, runs the amazing New Warriors Continuity Conundrum and Doug runs the most detailed (and been featured in an actual issue on panel in a Nova Comic!) – the Nova Prime Page.

We eventually got a 5th volume of The New Warriors, written by Christopher Yost – and, sadly, even that was cut way too soon. This was the closest, I felt, that we got to what the New Warriors were all about. Despite these cuts, and a series coming to an end, the New Warriors community, has been a lot like the New Warriors. Strong. Durable. Verbal.

And it was just announced, in early January of this year, that a New Warriors limited series is coming, spinning out of an event from Marvel.

I want to thank the New Warriors community that I’ve spent 20 years knowing; and welcome those who I am still getting to know. I’d like to thank the creators who have used the characters from the New Warriors; and the creators who wrote, draw, colored, penciled and worked on the New Warriors. A very special thanks to Fabian who has always been the most approachable person at any Convention (indulging not only my New Warriors infatuation, but my Adam-X one as well) and Evan who has been kind enough to interact on social media and both of whom have joined our group.

Thank you one and all.

• Tawmis