New Warriors Volume 1: The Kids Are All Fight
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| Chances bloooowwwwn, Nothing's freeeeeee, Longing foooooooorrrrr, Used to beeeeeeeee! |
Writers: Christopher
Yost
Artists: Marcus
To and Nick Roche
Collects: New Warriors #1-6 and material from The Amazing Spider-Man #1
Background
Information:
The New Warriors are HARDLY the most popular superhero team
in the Marvel universe; they destroyed the entire of Stamford, Connecticut
which started the super-hero Civil War.
In the real world, they’ve never exactly been
front-and-centre of Marvel’s going-ons, and therefore, haven’t earned much
mainstream attention. As such, a fresh start was entirely plausible for the
team. All you need to know for this book is that Kaine Parker, Spider-Man’s
clone, has taken on the role of Scarlet Spider and is hiding in Mexico.
Review:
Y’know, sometimes Marvel just makes me mad.
We’ve had, in Marvel NOW!, what; eight Avengers titles? Nine X-Men
ones? We’re set to have three Inhumans
books, and somehow justified three Wolverines?
Yet New Warriors,
one not directly connected with any of these gets cancelled? It’s not even bad;
which is more than I could say for schlock like Uncanny Avengers (at least, if the first volume is anything to go
by). Oh well, that’s Marvel for you.
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| Still does whatever a Spider-Man wouldn't |
If you want to get technical, The Kids Are All Fight spins out of Infinity, but it’s hardly central to the story. The High
Evolutionary, an odd man in a metal suit is out to destroy all altered humans-
mutants, clones, inhumans, atlantians, cosmic, magical or
scientifically-altered people and demigods are all on the chopping block to the
evolutionaries. Naturally a team consisting of exactly one of each of these
kinds of people (excluding magical) forms: Justice, Sun-Girl, Faira Sar Namora
of Atlantis, an inhuman named Haechi, Speedball, Nova, Scarlet Spider and
Hummingbird. Their mission is to stop the mass genocide of multiple races.
I’ll be honest; I bought this one because I thought it was
going to be a continuation of Yost’s Scarlet
Spider series, and to a certain point, it is. That said, it’s more of a
team book than anything else in Marvel’s line up. We flit between multiple
characters, and get a really good taste of what their all about. Yost is, in my
opinion, an underrated comics writer. He’s given each character a very distinct
personality and his dialogue is fun to read. What makes him better than most
industry heavyweights, however, like Brian Michael Bendis, is that his
character development doesn’t come at the expense of action, but rather because of it. Fights change these
characters and it’s great to see in The
Kids Are All Fight.
I’ll admit, the first story arc in this series is much
better than the second, which feels a lot like filler, and doesn’t add a whole
lot to the team. There are some funny moments here, which I appreciated, but
Yost ignores some of the bigger mysteries surrounding the group in favour of
this, which I found annoying more than anything.
There’s no way you’re going to write home about anything in
this book’s artwork. It’s fairly standard fare that does its job well, but
nothing more. I can’t think of a single moment in New Warriors that made me stand up and say “THAT looks awesome”.
That said, it’s hardly ugly. You’ll notice the distinct lack of Greg Land in
the credits.
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| Yep, it's a fun book. |
All in all, New
Warrirors Volume 1: The Kids Are All Fight is an entertaining volume, and
it’s a crying shame that Marvel is calling an end to the series while keeping
the awful Uncanny Avengers going. It
gets a three out of five Wolverines.
***
+ Nice balance of characters.
+ Action and dialogue blend well.
- Last story arc is less impressive.
Alternate Option: Scarlet Spider: Life After Death
Another Yost gem.
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