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The New Warriors Classic Omnibus
The New Warriors Classic Omnibus, Vol. 2
New Warriors (1990) 27-53; New Warriors Annual (1991) 3-4; Night Thrasher: Four Control (1992) 1-4; X-Force (1991) 32-33; Night Thrasher (1993) 1 (A story), 11-12; Nova (1994) 6-7; New Warriors Ashcan Edition (1994) 1; material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) 122, 159-163; Marvel Holiday Special (1991) 2
1136 pages, Hardcover
First published November 29, 2022
About the author
Fabian Nicieza
2,056 books438 followersFabian Nicieza is a writer and editor who is best known as the co-creator of DEADPOOL and for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, and Robin.
His first novel, the Edgar Award-nominated SUBURBAN DICKS, a sarcastic murder mystery, is on sale now from Putnam Books.
The Dicks will return in THE SELF-MADE WIDOW, coming June 21st.
His first novel, the Edgar Award-nominated SUBURBAN DICKS, a sarcastic murder mystery, is on sale now from Putnam Books.
The Dicks will return in THE SELF-MADE WIDOW, coming June 21st.
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August 21, 2024
Sadly New Warriors does get caught up in a couple of meh crossovers, but when it's not? Oh man is it FIRE.
Basically continues the adventures of our new team, or more of a family now. And Thrasher even goes off on his own at points, we do get his mini series, but also his own series starts (he'll get his own New Warriors OMnibus side stories) as well as Nova. But both are pretty big here, aswell as Nita, Marvelboy, and more.
The relationships in this series are really well done. These are all young adults or late teens, and their problems and issues all made sense. But their dynamic together, how they feel like a family and a team works so well. I'll be frank this is probably the best team outside of runaways to relate to Teen Titans for Marvel.
On top of that I really enjoyed the growth of Thrasher, Rage, Nova, and Firestarter here. ALL of them got some great character development and had to mature in great ways. Also the art is wonderful most of the time, over the top, but fits the themes and designs of the stories and characters.
The best storylines were dealing with going oversea and dealing with a issue, that results in the government checking the New Warriors. Another great storyline was Rage's growth as a character, and how he's doing with learning history, past, and dealing with his rage. Thrasher becoming less violent, unless you trip him up. And Fire Starter dealing with her father being injured. All great stuff.
The crossovers are terrible at points, the X-Force storyline in particular was horrendous and a waste of time. Luckily once that's done it gets a lot better. The other crossover with Night Trasher and Nova single series worked well for each character but also waaaaay too long at times.
Overall worth a read if liked volume 1. A 3.5 out of 5. I'll bump it to a 4.
Basically continues the adventures of our new team, or more of a family now. And Thrasher even goes off on his own at points, we do get his mini series, but also his own series starts (he'll get his own New Warriors OMnibus side stories) as well as Nova. But both are pretty big here, aswell as Nita, Marvelboy, and more.
The relationships in this series are really well done. These are all young adults or late teens, and their problems and issues all made sense. But their dynamic together, how they feel like a family and a team works so well. I'll be frank this is probably the best team outside of runaways to relate to Teen Titans for Marvel.
On top of that I really enjoyed the growth of Thrasher, Rage, Nova, and Firestarter here. ALL of them got some great character development and had to mature in great ways. Also the art is wonderful most of the time, over the top, but fits the themes and designs of the stories and characters.
The best storylines were dealing with going oversea and dealing with a issue, that results in the government checking the New Warriors. Another great storyline was Rage's growth as a character, and how he's doing with learning history, past, and dealing with his rage. Thrasher becoming less violent, unless you trip him up. And Fire Starter dealing with her father being injured. All great stuff.
The crossovers are terrible at points, the X-Force storyline in particular was horrendous and a waste of time. Luckily once that's done it gets a lot better. The other crossover with Night Trasher and Nova single series worked well for each character but also waaaaay too long at times.
Overall worth a read if liked volume 1. A 3.5 out of 5. I'll bump it to a 4.
December 24, 2024
Very nice 2nd book in collecting this great series. Very good read. Recommended
September 16, 2026
#27 A Speedball centric story. It’s loosely connected to Infinity War which was running at the same time. Robbie beats his doppelgänger by turning it to dust while Rage beats his by absorbing and accepting that part of him. Love that it’s all based around Speedball having been sent out for pizza by the heavy hitters.
#28 Namorita is determined to track down Sea Urchin. There’s help from a new supe called Turbo, a college girl who likes the powers but doesn’t want to be a hero. Also a new villain working with Sea Urchin called Cardinal. Oh, and Nova is living at the warehouse HQ, smelly socks and all.
#29 & 30 - wow, depressing story about a Middle Eastern country stuck in the middle of a civil war and the dangers of not knowing all the facts. FYI, Nita is not a good leader.
#31 No idea why Firestar needed to go with Sam and James into the jungle. Nor do I understand why she set fire to the photos of the Hellions.
#32 - 34 & annual 3 - a myriad of hero’s get together to defeat a mutant drowning in darkness. Spidey, Thing and Human Torch, Dr Strange, Clock & Dagger.
The annual finishes with a Speedball story & a Turbo story.
#35 Nova is training the two Turbos on the same night Cardinal breaks out of prison. In other news Namorita is getting pissed and someone knows Robbie’s secret.
#36 Issue focuses on Marvel Boy in prison.
#37 Namorita is pissing me off. She's managed to get Rage's gran killed and the other Warriors families kidnapped.
Night Thrasher #1 & NW #38 He’s been off doing his own thing and doesn’t realise how much the team is falling apart. He saves the team and they save the relatives but he can’t save Rage from himself. Rage, a 14 yo boy in a man’s body, kills the man responsible for killing his only family member.
#39 Love the corner boxes on this issue. Very playful. Rage is released into Chord and NTs care until he comes of age. Nita leaves the NWs, but not before a goodbye kiss for Nova.
NT #2 - 5 and NT Full Circle - Full Circle involves NT getting control of his company back (before NW 38) then 2 - 4 is another run in with the gang from Full Circle and Sil’s brother, Midnight Fire, who is now in Mandripor. NT and Sil decide that love is not enough and split up. #5 NT has another run in with Air Control.
#40 - 42 Wow. Loved these issues. Rich really comes into his own here as he struggles with the nova force and fights Supernova. And the art is particularly good, some truly epic panels.
#43 Vance gets out of prison, but straight into anti-mutant hate. He reinvents himself as Justice. And then gets lured away by that fabulously bad, chaotic bisexual Shinobi Shaw. So much hate, and it’s reflected here in 2026 for anyone different. Mutants will always be relevant, unfortunately.
#44 Horrid cover. Looks like it was a still taken from a freaky porn film. Focuses mainly on Namor tracking down Namorita after her physical changes. He convinces her to return to the NWs. Also Vance left to purposely infiltrate Shaw’s organisation. Coming up a crossover with X-Force.
#45 And we're back to NW after catching up with my X-Force reading. And a nice integrated introduction to the characters for anyone coming over from X-Force.
#46 Meh, not a satisfactory ending at all.
Annual 4 - Psionx have reformed and are now a vigilante super ‘hero’ team. Cleaning the streets by killing the killers. Then a Speedball short about his bully and the reason for his behaviour. And a Firestar story about her friend being raped and how she deals with it as Firestar.
#47 - Start of a crossover with NT and Nova solo titles. Centred around the (male) Sphinx. Speedball/Robbie is a bit of a creep in this. And a thankful mother flirts with Rage, who is technically a 14 yo boy, so creepy af.
Next up is NT #11 but it’s not available to read on MU so I’ll have to skip it.
Nova #6 - While other members of the team have been relocated to different periods of time, Nova appears to have been relocated to an alternate universe, where Earth is a barren wasteland and there is another Nova. Firestar has been sent to Salem witch trials. Rage is in Africa with slave traders. And Chord and the others left behind decide to form a new team to get them back.
#48 - Hindsight Lad & NT half brother, Bandit, put a team together. Sphinx has stolen all of lady sphinx’s power. Vance has been sent back to when his own father was a teenager. He’s being abused by his own dad because he’s gay but he’s going to give up his boyfriend and get married (and start the cycle of abuse again). Vance is determined to help, even though the would stop him being born? And Speedball is stuck in a bubble dimension. New Team, Cloak and Dagger, Darkhawk, both Turbos, Alex Power.
No NT #12 so skipped that.
#Nova 7, #NW 49 & 50 - the second team confront the Sphinx, find a way to bring back the A team, then they all defeat him by making him realise he wants something more from his immortal life.
#51 Silhouette and Bandit leave. Rage and Speedball really creep me out in this one. Rage (14) is considering going on a date with a 21 yo and Speedball (who is a complete horndog) encourages him. They are considering forcing a woman into possibly committing an illegal act by keeping pertinent information to themselves.
#52 Psionx accidentally kill a child. And the team starts to fall apart. Takes NW to bring Asylum in.
#53 That issue made me cry.
That's finished, finally. MU doesn't have the Marvel Comics Presents or the Ashcan or the 1991 Holiday special, so I've not read them.
Overall enjoyable.
#28 Namorita is determined to track down Sea Urchin. There’s help from a new supe called Turbo, a college girl who likes the powers but doesn’t want to be a hero. Also a new villain working with Sea Urchin called Cardinal. Oh, and Nova is living at the warehouse HQ, smelly socks and all.
#29 & 30 - wow, depressing story about a Middle Eastern country stuck in the middle of a civil war and the dangers of not knowing all the facts. FYI, Nita is not a good leader.
#31 No idea why Firestar needed to go with Sam and James into the jungle. Nor do I understand why she set fire to the photos of the Hellions.
#32 - 34 & annual 3 - a myriad of hero’s get together to defeat a mutant drowning in darkness. Spidey, Thing and Human Torch, Dr Strange, Clock & Dagger.
The annual finishes with a Speedball story & a Turbo story.
#35 Nova is training the two Turbos on the same night Cardinal breaks out of prison. In other news Namorita is getting pissed and someone knows Robbie’s secret.
#36 Issue focuses on Marvel Boy in prison.
#37 Namorita is pissing me off. She's managed to get Rage's gran killed and the other Warriors families kidnapped.
Night Thrasher #1 & NW #38 He’s been off doing his own thing and doesn’t realise how much the team is falling apart. He saves the team and they save the relatives but he can’t save Rage from himself. Rage, a 14 yo boy in a man’s body, kills the man responsible for killing his only family member.
#39 Love the corner boxes on this issue. Very playful. Rage is released into Chord and NTs care until he comes of age. Nita leaves the NWs, but not before a goodbye kiss for Nova.
NT #2 - 5 and NT Full Circle - Full Circle involves NT getting control of his company back (before NW 38) then 2 - 4 is another run in with the gang from Full Circle and Sil’s brother, Midnight Fire, who is now in Mandripor. NT and Sil decide that love is not enough and split up. #5 NT has another run in with Air Control.
#40 - 42 Wow. Loved these issues. Rich really comes into his own here as he struggles with the nova force and fights Supernova. And the art is particularly good, some truly epic panels.
#43 Vance gets out of prison, but straight into anti-mutant hate. He reinvents himself as Justice. And then gets lured away by that fabulously bad, chaotic bisexual Shinobi Shaw. So much hate, and it’s reflected here in 2026 for anyone different. Mutants will always be relevant, unfortunately.
#44 Horrid cover. Looks like it was a still taken from a freaky porn film. Focuses mainly on Namor tracking down Namorita after her physical changes. He convinces her to return to the NWs. Also Vance left to purposely infiltrate Shaw’s organisation. Coming up a crossover with X-Force.
#45 And we're back to NW after catching up with my X-Force reading. And a nice integrated introduction to the characters for anyone coming over from X-Force.
#46 Meh, not a satisfactory ending at all.
Annual 4 - Psionx have reformed and are now a vigilante super ‘hero’ team. Cleaning the streets by killing the killers. Then a Speedball short about his bully and the reason for his behaviour. And a Firestar story about her friend being raped and how she deals with it as Firestar.
#47 - Start of a crossover with NT and Nova solo titles. Centred around the (male) Sphinx. Speedball/Robbie is a bit of a creep in this. And a thankful mother flirts with Rage, who is technically a 14 yo boy, so creepy af.
Next up is NT #11 but it’s not available to read on MU so I’ll have to skip it.
Nova #6 - While other members of the team have been relocated to different periods of time, Nova appears to have been relocated to an alternate universe, where Earth is a barren wasteland and there is another Nova. Firestar has been sent to Salem witch trials. Rage is in Africa with slave traders. And Chord and the others left behind decide to form a new team to get them back.
#48 - Hindsight Lad & NT half brother, Bandit, put a team together. Sphinx has stolen all of lady sphinx’s power. Vance has been sent back to when his own father was a teenager. He’s being abused by his own dad because he’s gay but he’s going to give up his boyfriend and get married (and start the cycle of abuse again). Vance is determined to help, even though the would stop him being born? And Speedball is stuck in a bubble dimension. New Team, Cloak and Dagger, Darkhawk, both Turbos, Alex Power.
No NT #12 so skipped that.
#Nova 7, #NW 49 & 50 - the second team confront the Sphinx, find a way to bring back the A team, then they all defeat him by making him realise he wants something more from his immortal life.
#51 Silhouette and Bandit leave. Rage and Speedball really creep me out in this one. Rage (14) is considering going on a date with a 21 yo and Speedball (who is a complete horndog) encourages him. They are considering forcing a woman into possibly committing an illegal act by keeping pertinent information to themselves.
#52 Psionx accidentally kill a child. And the team starts to fall apart. Takes NW to bring Asylum in.
#53 That issue made me cry.
That's finished, finally. MU doesn't have the Marvel Comics Presents or the Ashcan or the 1991 Holiday special, so I've not read them.
Overall enjoyable.
February 27, 2023
(Zero spoiler review) 4.25/5
If you're someone who loves Claremont's X-men run and laments the fact that there is precious little in comics to rival it, than you need to get your hands on this run. No, the high's and quite as high, and the low's, (not that there are any, really) are a little more apparent at times during Nicieza's run. But as far as group super hero comics go, this is without a doubt, the closest thing I've yet come across to rivalling Claremont at his peak. And this is coming from someone who is extremely dubious at best when it comes to the multiplied antics of a cast of caped characters across a lengthy run.
Robertson's art is little short of phenomenal here. Thankfully, with a few exceptions for tie in's, its pretty much him doing it all, and it's bloody fantastic. Whilst changing Firestar's costume was a noticeable low point, everything else he did here was of a standard to make other stalwarts of the industry look pretty average by comparison.
But despite this, Nicieza has to get the lions share of the credit here. Quite how he filled this book with so much heart, so much growth, and much to my enjoyment, how much he steered away from the 'villain of the week' tropey nonsense, to give us a unique, well thought out and executed run for the ages. Volume one may have been a slow start which stumbled on occasion, but this was him firing on (almost) all cylinders here, almost all of the time. I could nitpick about time jumps and how he didn't always wrap things up as conclusively as he could have, but these are minor quibbles. This is a bloody good run, that looks bloody good at the same time.
If the super hero genre had runs of this quality as a benchmark, then this medium would be so healthy, funeral directors would be going out of business. Sadly, run's like this are a sad and poignant reminder of the better times we once enjoyed, and the talented people who once relished the chance to shine and show their talents. Just 'internet search' The New New Warriors if you want a signpost for how far we have fallen. God damn it. 4.25/5
OmniBen.
If you're someone who loves Claremont's X-men run and laments the fact that there is precious little in comics to rival it, than you need to get your hands on this run. No, the high's and quite as high, and the low's, (not that there are any, really) are a little more apparent at times during Nicieza's run. But as far as group super hero comics go, this is without a doubt, the closest thing I've yet come across to rivalling Claremont at his peak. And this is coming from someone who is extremely dubious at best when it comes to the multiplied antics of a cast of caped characters across a lengthy run.
Robertson's art is little short of phenomenal here. Thankfully, with a few exceptions for tie in's, its pretty much him doing it all, and it's bloody fantastic. Whilst changing Firestar's costume was a noticeable low point, everything else he did here was of a standard to make other stalwarts of the industry look pretty average by comparison.
But despite this, Nicieza has to get the lions share of the credit here. Quite how he filled this book with so much heart, so much growth, and much to my enjoyment, how much he steered away from the 'villain of the week' tropey nonsense, to give us a unique, well thought out and executed run for the ages. Volume one may have been a slow start which stumbled on occasion, but this was him firing on (almost) all cylinders here, almost all of the time. I could nitpick about time jumps and how he didn't always wrap things up as conclusively as he could have, but these are minor quibbles. This is a bloody good run, that looks bloody good at the same time.
If the super hero genre had runs of this quality as a benchmark, then this medium would be so healthy, funeral directors would be going out of business. Sadly, run's like this are a sad and poignant reminder of the better times we once enjoyed, and the talented people who once relished the chance to shine and show their talents. Just 'internet search' The New New Warriors if you want a signpost for how far we have fallen. God damn it. 4.25/5
OmniBen.
August 29, 2024
Pues segundo bloque de lecturas sobre los Nuevos Guerreros de Fabián Nicieza, y en este tramo, ya sin Mark Bagley y con Darick Robertson como dibujante (aunque hace un gran trabajo, parece mentira que sea el mismo dibujante que en Transmetropolitan), donde Nicieza va a continuar con las tramas de su etapa anterior, haciendo algún cambio estético a los personajes, actualizándolos a los 90, e incluso algún cambio de nombre, pasando Marvel Boy a ser Justicia después de su paso por la cárcel después de una de las historias más dramáticas de los Nuevos Guerreros, la muerte del padre de Vance cuando este utiliza sus poderes para defenderse de una agresión por su parte.
En estos aproximadamente 25 números de los Nuevos Guerreros, veremos la transformación de Namorita en Kymera, un cruce con X-Force y que además de presentar a Paige Guthrie va a servir para cerrar el tema recurrente de los Arribistas que había comenzado con Jim Lee y Portaccio y que parecía ni ir ni venir a ningún sitio, así que bien cerrado quedaba, el cruce de la serie con los acontecimientos de La Guerra del Infinito, y una saga que les volverá a llevar a hacer frente a la Esfinge, y que será el primer gran crossover de los Nuevos Guerreros, con colecciones propias para Nova, Night Trasher y Speedball, y en la que el ayudante del reticente Night Trasher, Visión en Perspectiva, llegará incluso a reunir un nuevo equipo formado por Puñal, Darkhawk, Turbo y Alex Power (que reúne todos los poderes de sus hermanos y se hace llamar Powerpax).
Así que nada, un poco de todo, y manteniendo un nivel de entretenimiento alto, una prueba de que no todo lo que trajeron los 90 fue malo.
En estos aproximadamente 25 números de los Nuevos Guerreros, veremos la transformación de Namorita en Kymera, un cruce con X-Force y que además de presentar a Paige Guthrie va a servir para cerrar el tema recurrente de los Arribistas que había comenzado con Jim Lee y Portaccio y que parecía ni ir ni venir a ningún sitio, así que bien cerrado quedaba, el cruce de la serie con los acontecimientos de La Guerra del Infinito, y una saga que les volverá a llevar a hacer frente a la Esfinge, y que será el primer gran crossover de los Nuevos Guerreros, con colecciones propias para Nova, Night Trasher y Speedball, y en la que el ayudante del reticente Night Trasher, Visión en Perspectiva, llegará incluso a reunir un nuevo equipo formado por Puñal, Darkhawk, Turbo y Alex Power (que reúne todos los poderes de sus hermanos y se hace llamar Powerpax).
Así que nada, un poco de todo, y manteniendo un nivel de entretenimiento alto, una prueba de que no todo lo que trajeron los 90 fue malo.
March 22, 2023
One of my favorite books from starting to read comics in my early teens, this collection finishes Fabian Nicieza’s term as writer for some of Marvel’s most fun and thought-provoking team books. Collected here are classic stories like the X-Force crossover, Nova meeting Supernova, Namorita turning blue, and the dark Death In The Family that launched Night Thrasher’s solo title. I don’t think it’s as consistent as the Bagley years collected in the first volume, but it’s a great read and reminds me why I fell in love with comics.
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January 28, 2024I read this in 2023, and a big chunk of it again on the 27th and 28th of January 2024. I have various New Warriors "Classic" individual issues and trade paperbacks, also. I have to remember that "Child's Play" was a crossover with X-Force. I thought I was missing those issues. I'd forgotten how much I'd disliked some of those X-Men/X-Force villains, especially the green-haired ones. And Fenris had been horrible forever.
There were a lot of things I liked, and some references that didn't date well at all. But I liked seeing the younger versions of Nova and Justice.
There were a lot of things I liked, and some references that didn't date well at all. But I liked seeing the younger versions of Nova and Justice.
October 2, 2023
Another great classic. Fun stories, great art....
Marvel greatness back in the days
Marvel greatness back in the days
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