That's a whole lot of colons in that title!
Nextwave was recommended as one of the best comics I wasn't reading by a bunch of people at a forum I read daily and Nate, my favorite guy at Comic Carnival. So many recommendations were probably wrong, but I picked up the first trade anyway. (Yea for a nice hardcover with a dust jacket!)
I'm going to copy the amazon.com product description, because I can't put it any better than this:
The Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, or H.A.T.E. (a subsidiary of the Beyond Corporation) put Nextwave together to fight Bizarre Weapons of Mass Destruction. When Nextwave discovers that H.A.T.E. and Beyond© are terrorist cells themselves, and that the BWMDs were intended to kill them, they are less than pleased. In fact, they are rather angry. So they make things explode. Lots of things. Starring Monica Rambeau (formerly Captain Marvel and Photon), Aaron Stack (Machine Man), Tabitha Smith (X-Force's Meltdown), monster-hunter Elsa Bloodstone and the Captain! Guest-starring Fin Fang Foom!
This is one of those comics that you read twice -- just to make sure you didn't miss anything. Then you quote it a lot ("Fin Fang Foom put you in pants!") and make all your friends read it too. It's that good.
There's plenty of pot-shots at Marvel conventions, great art that matches the irreverent style perfectly, a hysterical Nick Fury spoof complete with mommy issues and a drug habit, battle koalas and a giant green monster in purple underpants. What's not to love?
This is not the comic for you if you're looking for deep character development and lots of drama. If you want a drunken, human-hating robot, lots of explosions and Elsa Bloodstone kicking ass with a shovel, pick it up. It's got a spot on my pull list from now on.
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