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Twelve-year-old Elvin Haliday was visiting an unfamiliar neighborhood to trade some comic books with another boy when he was attacked by a gang of racist bullies. Elvin eluded them by hiding in the heavily polluted waters of Newtown Creek, but before he could climb out, Fisk Biochem workers dumped more illegal chemical waste into the creek, dousing him with it. Terrified and in pain, Elvin ran home to his only family, Granny Staples, and she nursed him back to health over a period of days. The boy recovered quickly, and in the weeks and months that followed, he went through a tremendous growth spurt that gave him a superhumanly powerful adult body. He was discouraged from seeking vengeance on his tormentors by the devoutly religious Granny Staples, who felt he should use his new powers for good. Fashioning a makeshift costume from a ski mask and a leather outfit, Elvin began operating as the super-vigilante Rage at the age of 14, targeting street criminals and drug dealers such as L.D. 50. He applied for membership in the Avengers, berating the team for their elitism and lack of visible minorities. Despite this obnoxious introduction, he was appointed a probationary Avengers reservist alongside Sandman after aiding the group in an otherdimensional mission. Though technically part of a substitute roster serving as backup for the active team, Rage was a frequent participant in Avengers cases, facing foes such as Ngh the Unspeakable, the Tetrarchs of Entropy, Doctor Doom, the Brethren, the Collector and Grotesk.

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In 1966 during the Vietnam War, an American recon patrol in Cambodia stumbled upon an ancient, hidden temple of a cult known as the Dragon’s Breadth, which had remained hidden for centuries. It had been built upon a well-spring of raw, primal energy called the “Well of All Things”. The inhabitants decided to breed a superior race that would one day unite with the ways of the west. They believed that this union would produce children capable of harnessing the power of the Well. The members of the recon patrol were to be the fathers of these children, one of these men was Andrew Chord the man who would become Silhouette’s father. Seeking a better life for her children, Silhouette and Midnight’s Fire, were brought to a woman to take care of them, away from Tai.

Read More Here: http://newwarriors.com/team_roster/team_members_iv/silhouette

Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth2020 #BHM2020 We start off with the most significant member of the New Warriors! #NightThrasher
Dwayne Taylor grew up believing his rich parents were killed by criminals for some unexplained reason. Taylor’s guardians, the ex-military sergeant Chord (a friend of his father’s) and the elderly martial arts master Tai, supported Taylor’s vow to make all criminals pay for their actions, helping him create the identity of Night Thrasher.

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Though he’s not named, and doesn’t actually having any speaking lines… one of the New Warriors seems to be back from the dead… and it’s not Night Thrasher… or Namorita… who we know will be in the new upcoming series…

But someone else… someone far more obscure who perished…

It would appear that Microbe was resurrected in the pages of Marauders #3 from the looks of things.

Apparently Joe Q and Mike Manley were doing a “Drink And Draw” (I assume together, otherwise it’s weird that they were both doing and they both did Darkhawk)…

My Darkhawk digital layout from tonight’s @Drink_and_Draw. Maybe @urbanbarbarian will ink it if enough people pressure him into it. pic.twitter.com/MvXwC8LwBG— JoeQuesada (@JoeQuesada) January 17, 2020

My Darkhawk sketch from last nights Drin and Draw with @urbanbarbarian and the @Drink_and_Draw crew @DannyFingeroth it was a blast pic.twitter.com/LMirC7jTry— Mike Manley (@TheMonsterman) January 17, 2020

Trying to calm my brain; and digitally coloring (by no means a professional, but fun to do regardless) – the recent #Darkhawk piece done by Manley and colored by me. (Yes, I skipped coloring Powell himself) – Decided to do the Joe Q #Darkhawk coloring too, while I was at it.

Hard to believe but it looks like the New Warriors will have a new title coming out this year. The folks of Syfy Wire dropped the news! A special thanks to Ross Hutchinson who made us aware on our Facebook Group.

The new book will be written by Daniel Kibblesmith, with art by Luciano Vecchio. Daniel said:

…We’re going with most of the original members, plus Rage and Silhouette with Night Thrasher, Namorita, Firestar, Speedball!

He also mentioned that Justice would be a part of it, with some interactions bouncing against Night Thrasher, due to Justice’s roll in the series Outlawed, which essentially deals with teenagers who possess powers of any kind can not be allowed to use their powers (as I understand it). He also noted that the exlcusion of Nova is because Nova is out there doing things in the Universe that keep him busy and away from Earth.

The core concept of the book is that during the events of Outlawed, the New Warriors have chosen a side and are recruiting unaffiliated new New Warriors to get the proper training that they need to survive in the world. The recruits (seen on both covers) are new characters developed for this series.

That being said; with what appears to be five new characters – plus Rage, Silhouette, Night Thrasher, Namorita, Firestar and Speedball; it does sound like it’s going to be a very heavy book in terms of characters.

Things I am already looking forward to, just based on the covers is the fact that Night Thrasher is once again back in his armored look rather than the trench coat. (No offense to whoever designed that, but the armor was very much a part of Night Thrasher). And that fact that Namorita will be appearing once again. Namorita’s state is one that’s been rather puzzling because of her demise in Civil War, then her time displaced version being brought back to the “regular” Marvel Universe (with pink skin), then a blue skinned Namorita being seen at the end of Christopher Yost’s run (a reference to a story he didn’t get to finish), then seeing Namorita with pink skin again in the pages of Fantastic Four and subsequent appearances. I am curious if there’s going to be any attempt to explain Namorita or just accept it and move on.

I am definitely looking forward to what this has to offer!

UPDATE: Marvel confirmed that the New Warriors and Power Pack series will both be 5 issues, and Champions will be ongoing in this updated article.

Now, that said – might I recommend you tell everyone under the sun to buy copies of New Warriors (and Power Pack) so that Marvel sees that they have a fanbase and consider launching an ongoing series.

The New Warriors Talk / New Warriors Continuity Conundrum patreon had me wanting to also update the site here. Wait – you missed the Patreon thing? Well, first go look at that – I will wait here.

Oh, good! You’re back! So, yes, as I was saying – I wanted to do some updates here, especially while on the holiday vacation. So Aegis got a new profile picture as well as some small updates (clarification) about his appearances (as a spirit) in the Hercules series. Justice hasn’t appeared much after the latest New Warriors volume, but I did take the time to update his profile picture as well. Alex Power got an update, with some brief mentions of the Future Foundation (I don’t have the issues, so I don’t have a lot of the details), and got the name updated from “Power House” (which Franklin Richards adopted during Future Foundation) and updated the name to his current (as far as I know) handle of Zero-G. There’s also the somewhat complicated Namorita who got some updates and clarification/notes as well as a mention about her appearance in Annihilation Scourge. Nova got an update that includes Annihilation Scourge. Both Speedball and Rage appeared in Annihilation Scourge as well. Rage is turning out to be a bit like Namorita, where he’s seen – seemingly dying – but then being seen again (thankfully) alive (in Annihilation Scourge). His “death” could be exaggerated by simply stating how durable his skin is that he didn’t actually “die” with the Poison thing. Silhouette got a pretty good update, with her appearances in Ironheart. Darkhawk (the one who may have even a more complicated origin than Namorita) also got a small update. Hindsight Lad got a new profile picture, as did Slapstick and Ultra Girl and the Scarlet Spiders. And last but not least, Debrii got a very small update (about her time as a judge for a television show in France).

From our good friend Corey at NewWarriorsTalk/New Warriors Continuity Conundrum!

Hey all, I want you all to be among the first to hear about a new thing I’m doing both for my @NewWarriorsTalk Twitter account and my New Warriors Continuity Conundrum website. Please forgive my wordiness.

For some context: Financially, we’re not doing well. My wife has several chronic health issues, which result in very erratic expenses. Budgeting is very tricky. We were already just skating by. Then the day before Thanksgiving, our parked car was hit and it was deemed a total loss. Honestly, I wasn’t sure if we were going to make it to January. But we did. Huge relief.

But I need to reassess expenses and shore up money where I can. At the same time, 2020 is the 30th anniversary of the first New Warriors comic book, and 20th anniversary of my New Warriors site!

I don’t want to give up my site or this Twitter account. It’s been an absolute joy to meet and interact with other fans, talk with creators, form friendships, and share my love of these characters and raise awareness about their history.

I want to celebrate the New Warriors big this year. And with the aforementioned financial challenges, I could really use your help. So, I’ve created a Patreon account where you can become a supporting member and get exclusive content.

I’m so excited to be starting this because it will allow me to start doing video commentaries. I’m opening up access to my massive spreadsheet with all the info I use to track anniversaries, story order, creator credits and so much more. And that’s just to start!

All the free content I’ve been posting will continue to be free and accessible to everyone. But if you want to support what I do, support my championing and celebrating the New Warriors, and you want to get even more back for it! Now you can!

I hope you’ll join me on this journey. Whether you can become a member or not, having your support means the world. You can read more about the whole thing, including seeing my face on video (!) here:

Visit the NewWarriorsTalk/New Warriors Continuity Conundrum Patreon!

In the words of The Avengers: EndGame… Whatever it takes.

Pop! Vinyl is releasing a Rich Rider, Nova figure tied to the Guardians of the Galaxy line of figures. While Nova, really (until very recently) has not been tied to the Guardians of the Galaxy comic (the Nova Corp however was seen in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie) – we’re finally getting one of the members of the New Warriors as a Pop Vinyl figure – and if it requires being attached to Guardians of the Galaxy to get it done – I am very all right with that!

The figure itself (seen here) looks absolutely amazing. Although tied to the Guardians of the Galaxy line, that doesn’t leave a lot of room for the other members of the New Warriors – currently – to make their debut in the Pop Vinyl figures (other than possibly Sam Alexander, as another Guardians of the Galaxy release). There’s an exclusive version of this Nova figure that comes with a variant “cover” comic – which jumps the price from the standard 10 to 12 dollars per figure – up to 80 dollars. That’s a pretty steep price to pay for a figure – but if you’re interested, it’s out there.

The figure is due to be released in August.

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.

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