New Warriors Dot Com

It’s difficult to believe it’s been 19 years. 19 years since NewWarriors.com went live. Many years before NewWarriors.com went live, I had been running it on a Geocities (who would eventually go on to be purchased by Yahoo) for many, many years. I had even made an eGroup (also eventually purchased by Yahoo) for the New Warriors which – back in the day – had become extremely active.

19 years ago, my wife knowing what an avid fan of the New Warriors I was, went ahead and surprised me and purchased the domain as a gift for me. It’s been a fantastic 19 years. This site has evolved from a very, very, very simple site, to synopsis of the entire New Warriors run, then the additional of a lot of the solo titles. I created a New Warriors Facebook Page and Group, and the group has been seeing a good amount of activity these days! (Be sure to check out the links on the right side of the page!) Corey (who runs a New Warriors page), Doug (who runs the best Nova related website) and myself even ventured into podcasting about the New Warriors, though that venture was short lived due to busy schedules. (Every blue moon, literally, I do another episode just by myself, between the assortment of other creative ventures I have my fingers in).

I’ve had the good fortune of meeting Fabian at a few cons and getting things autographed and discussing my passion for the New Warriors.

Here’s to the future, and hoping we get to see the New Warriors getting another shot at the title.

• Tawmis

Real Name: Donyell (Last Name Unrevealed)
Aliases: Donyell Taylor, Night Thrasher (II)
Identity: Secret
Occupation: Criminal
Citizenship: American Citizen, with a known criminal record.
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Known Relatives: Dwayne Taylor (Night Thrasher, half-brother), Daryl Taylor (father, deceased), mother (name unknown, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Formerly a member of the New Warriors, Thieves Guild
First Appearance: Night Thrasher #3
History: 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.

Those plans were thwarted when Dwayne won the rematch, and although Dwayne was willing to reconcile their differences when he discovered Donyell’s true origin, Bandit departed, leaving the relationship between the two of them unresolved.

Bandit later reappeared when the New Warriors were scattered through time by Lady Sphinx (Meryet Karim), perhaps only because his lover, Silhouette had been one of the Warriors that had disappeared. Agreeing to lead this band of “New New Warriors”, they teleported to Egypt to begin tracking down where the Warriors had vanished to.

With the arrival of the original Warriors, they managed to defeat both Sphinxs’ when both Meryet Karim and the male Sphinx merged into a composite being and vanished somewhere into the past.

Troubled by their relationship, Night Thrasher parted ways with Silhouette and Bandit, on worse terms than before.

Years later, Bandit turned up in New Orleans. There he romanced Belladonna Boudreaux, leader of the Thieves and Assassins Guild. Although he furthered the guild’s criminal endeavors, he still felt that Belladonna’s ex-husband, Remy LeBeau (Gambit) posed a threat to them. However, when attacked, Gambit explained to Belladonna that Bandit had been manipulating her and that he still had not broken off his relationship with Silhouette Chord. However, before anything else could be done, the members of the guild turned on all three of them, but the guild was defeated and in the confusion Bandit left New Orleans.

During a televised raid by the New Warriors of a building in which Cobalt Man, Speedfreak, Coldheart, and Nitro, who had recently escaped from the Raft, resided. Namorita followed after Nitro. Slamming him into a bus, Namorita taunted him, but Nitro screamed he wasn’t the kind of loser that she was used to facing, she was in fact “playing with the big boys now”, before letting off a massive explosion that killed Namorita, Night Thrasher, Microbe, all of the children at the nearby elementary school, and all residents in the surrounding neighborhood where the fight took place.

Bandit took up the guise as the new Night Thrasher and formed a new version of the New Warriors.

See Night Thrasher II for more.

Height: 6’4
Weight: 300 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Powers: Bandit generates electricity and channels it through other objects, such as the grappling hooks he launches from a specialized crossbow; the hooks penetrate his opponent’s skin, and then open beneath it.. He uses throwing stars and other weapons as needed.

Accessories: None

Note: Bandit is an accomplished marksman, acrobat, and hand-to-hand combatant.

AEGIS

Real Name: Trey Jason Rollins
Aliases: None
Identity: Secret
Occupation: Student, Crime Fighter
Citizenship: American Citizen, with no known criminal record.
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York
Known Relatives: Mother (Unknown Name)
Group Affiliation: New Warriors (formerly, inactive)
First Appearance: (Rollins) New Warriors v2 #0 as (Aegis) New Warriors v2 #1
History: 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.

Aegis continues to fight along side the New Warriors, becoming a member of the young group. However, several times Aegis is pulled between his loyalty to his teammates and his loyalty to his friend, James, who has joined the Lobo’s Boys gang. One such decision nearly costs Bolt his life, when a roof collapsed, and Aegis chose to protect James, who in turn thanked him and the New Warriors by throwing a live grenade to escape.

James even lead Lobo’s Boys to the Crashpad, and with weapons supplied by Joe Silvermane, destroyed the New Warriors Crashpad headquarters. The Warriors are given a new headquarters at an abandoned Firehouse, supplied by Dalton, who in truth is Firestrike.

At a pub, Hercules sees a news cast of the New Warriors, along with Aegis, fighting Mutant Force. Recognizing the breastplate, Hercules makes a point of finding Aegis. Locating them at their Firehouse base, Hercules teleports the Warriors up to Olympus to accuse Trey of stealing Aegis. Trey explains he didn’t steal it and that he found it, which Zeus confirms. Athena arrives and explains that she left it for Trey to find, and that he would be her new selected champion. Then, with a wave of magic, Athena adorns Trey in a more appropriate outfit.

In the end, the Warriors decide that together, they will continue to fight the fight that other heroes refuse to fight.

For reasons yet unknown, when the New Warriors resurfaced some time later, Aegis was not a part of the roster. It could be speculated that he has returned to fighting the fight in the gang infested area of Brooklyn from which he got his start.

When the Registration Act was put through after the actions of Civil War, Aegis agreed and signed up.

Aegis later died during a fight with the Huntsman, when he jumped out of a twelve story window. Despite his faith and belief in Athena, the breastplate was unable to save Aegis. He was, however, later seen in Erebus (which was portrayed as a Casino), where souls seek a chance at winning a second lease on life. It was here where he joined Hercules in freeing Zeus from Hades’ imprisonment. After successfully saving Zeus, he follows Amadeus Cho to the Elysian Fields.

Height: 6′
Weight: 180 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown

Powers: None

Accessories: The Aegis Breastplate allows Trey to use its power to deflect anything directed at him, so long as he is aware of it. It has, however, been shown that he can be surprised by a hit from behind. The breastplate also enables him to control how the force field is to look, whether encompassing him, or projecting it forward in a rectangle format. The force field has withstood everything from gunshots, to high weapon technology guns, even to withstanding the powerful and brutal punches of the demigod, Hercules.

As well, as being able to deflect anything directed at him, the Aegis breastplate allowed Aegis to absorb energy attacks (as seen when they initially battled Blaastar, he absorbed Bolt’s excessive electrical attacks).

The limits in which the Aegis breastplate is capable of withstanding still remains unknown; although being a gift from the Greek Goddess, Athena, it can probably withstand just about anything directed at it.

Note: An interesting fact is that the same breastplate, according to Athena once belonged to Perseus, which was used to slay Medusa. Though Aegis is seen with the Breastplate in the after life, it was revealed that a physical version of it also exists.

Very few people in this world don’t know who Stan Lee is.

Today, TMZ is reporting that Stan Lee has passed away, and confirmed by Kirk Schneck, an attorney for Stan Lee’s daughter.

Stan Lee, though he got his start in Timely Comics, would go on to become much bigger. He often voiced the openings of shows such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends in the early 80’s. But what truly made Stan Lee a house hold name, beyond those who collected comics, was his appearances in movies. He appeared in the Kevin Smith movie, Mallrats. But when Disney purchased Marvel Comics and started the Marvel Cinematic Universe (simply called the MCU to most), Stan Lee had a cameo appearance in every single one of them – and even made a cameo in the Deadpool movies, which at the time were owned by FOX Studios, as well as the Spider-Man movies, which are currently owned by Sony.

To speak of the legacy that Stan Lee was a part of, along with folks like Jack “The King” Kirby and Steve Ditko would be too long to list – but to give folks an idea – he had a hand in The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, The Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, X-Men, and the list goes on and on.

These characters that Marvel created did something different than DC. While Superman and Batman lived in cities like Metropolis and Gotham; the characters at Marvel lived in real life cities, primarily New York City (where, at the time, Marvel was based).

This helped launch the popularity of these Marvel comic book characters; and Spider-Man would even go on to appear in newspaper strips and had a cartoon in the late 1960s. There have been countless Spider-Man cartoons since. There’s been several X-Men cartoons. Several Avengers cartoons. There is, of course, the movies. And even several characters, such as Daredevil appearing on Netflix specific shows.

To say that Stan Lee’s hand in the creation of these characters, along with those of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, had a massive impact – would somehow still be under stating the obvious.

Stan Lee got his start at Timely comics in 1939, with the help of his uncle (Robbie Solomon). Back then, Stan Lee did not have a heavy hand in much, in regards to creation. He was sent to ensure everyone had ink for their artistic duties and what not. But in 1941, he got a bit of a break by being a text filler in Captain America Comics #3, where he used the name Stan Lee (which he would go on to make his legal name, from Stanley Martin Lieber). He would become an editor at the age of 19, until 1972 where he took over as publisher.

In 1942, he served with the United States Army where his military classification was officially entitled as “playwright” – a title shared with only eight others.

In the 1950s, Timely Comics became Atlas Comics. Late into the 1950s, DC had managed to bring back the superhero genre; and Lee was appointed to do the same, by which time, Atlas Comics had now become Marvel Comics, and Lee did just that, created flawed heroes that drew the appear of many. The Fantastic Four was the first, created along side with Jack “The King” Kirby; and that’s when all the others came along after that. With the Avengers, Captain America, who initially appeared in Timely Comics was brought back, and explained to have been in suspended animation.

I will never be able to explain the impact these characters had on me. Avengers and Uncanny X-Men are what got me into comics a very long time ago. My collection is now into the thousands upon thousands of comics. They’ve helped me in my youth, they’ve given me endless memories.

Stan Lee’s wife, Joan, passed away in July 2017. Stan Lee leaves us at the age of 95. He leaves behind a massive legacy, where his name became a household name, and we have characters that he helped create, that will be remembered by everyone, for a very, very, long time.

I’d like to think, that when he left us, he knew that. And he was at peace with that.

– Tawmis

It looks like Nova and Darkhawk might be headed for the new Guardians of the Galaxy comic book. Also on the team: Star Lord, Phyla-Vell, Gladiator, Adam Warlock, Groot, Moon Dragon, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer and Beta Ray Bill.

There’s a concern of Who Will Stand When The Last Guardian Falls…

Because it is a pretty large team, the catch phrase on the bottom might indicate that something big is going to happen and some of these characters might not be in the rest of the series after whatever happens. Whether that means that these characters drop off – or, what I am fearful of – they will kill some of these characters to give the story “impact” – that some will perish and not be a part of the series.

Corey discovered that Namorita apparently has a special, promotional one-shot series – that neither of us have been able to locate any information on. Corey took to Facebook while I took to Twitter. What’s very cool is that Fabian Nicieza has helped us on our quest to find out more (and I would like a copy – even if it’s a scanned copy – of the book!)

Anyone have any information on this promotional #Namorita one shot? Seems @marvel partnered with @arisefoundation and @MiamiDadePD – and we are looking for a copy of this elusive issue! pic.twitter.com/TVezj1OVxV

— The New Warriors (@New_Warriors) October 12, 2018

Tagging @GlennHerdling who was the editor for Marvel’s custom comics back then… https://t.co/SenBqjR8Pf

— Fabian Nicieza (@FabianNicieza) October 12, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-QSNmeKudQ

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Guest writer, Corey Blake of New Warriors Continuity Conundrum.

Just hearing news that Steve Ditko has died. He is one of the legendary creators of the Marvel Universe as the co-plotter, character designer and original artist for Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. He was the artist that established Iron Man’s red and gold armor, which has defined his iconic look ever since.

Later, after leaving Marvel, he also created The Question, a character that would later serve as the model for Rorschach in the seminal comic Watchmen. He created a new Blue Beetle, who was also the basis for a Watchmen character, Night Owl.

Later still, he created the cult hit character Squirrel Girl and one of my absolute favorites, Speedball, a bouncing bundle of energy.

Before all of that he cut his teeth on creepy, bizarre and weird horror and sci-fi stories that could’ve been episodes of the Twilight Zone.

He continued producing comics on his own terms right until the end, distributing them through 20 successful Kickstarter campaigns managed by his longtime collaborator Robin Snyder. His last one just concluded on July 4th.

His faces were always distinct. His characters often posed in weird and memorable angles. And he drew the best hands.

I had made this almost a year ago, and had forgotten to officially post it on the site – but I made a New Warriors Chat Room on Discord.

Liam brought up on the New Warriors Facebook Group that he thought that the New Warriors community, that originally started back on eGroups, which was later purchased and became Yahoo Groups. But that group was founded way back in December 13th, 1998 – making it so that some of us – most of which have never met in person – have known each other for almost twenty years because of our passion for New Warriors. It’s amazing to me that this community I had started for a comic that had no real presence on the web back then (the original New Warriors Dot Com site was on Geocities; which ironically was purchased by Yahoo and decommissioned – but check out the evolution of site banners that were used), has managed to stay together in many regards, and forge these friendships over the years. Jeremy had written a touching piece about those forged friends back in the day.

Anyway – go go back to the point of this – I had made this almost a year ago, and had forgotten to officially post it on the site – but I made a New Warriors Chat Room on Discord. It’s now linked on the right under Social Media also.

Are you looking for this issue? (Or any comic?) – Consider using our Affiliate Link to help keep the site ad free: Cloak & Dagger (Volume 3)

The entire 19 issue synopsis of the third volume of Cloak & Dagger is now up – this volume of Cloak & Dagger was originally called The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak & Dagger because the story suddenly revolved around the idea that Cloak & Dagger were mutants, and that the drugs triggered their mutant powers.

The series goes on to show that Mr. Jip (one of the worse, all time, ever created characters, ever) spent a very long time (too long in my book) manipulating Cloak & Dagger. Then later, another write came along, and says that it was D’spayre who was there, all along, and that he was the one who led to the drugs being injected, because otherwise their lives would have been too good; and he needed to feed off that despair they emitted – oh, and that, because they were injected with the drugs, it somehow swapped their mutant powers (Tandy originally had the Darkforce, while Tyrone had the Lightforce). All of that said, to say – eventually the entire mutant idea for Cloak & Dagger would later be retconned as a lie from D’spayre.