New Warriors Appreciation 2020

[The Cool Thatguy]

I feel like the mini was definitely going to end with either the new recruits or the classic team turning against CRADLE and the law, but I'm not sure how that will impact the story if it's been scaled back to a mini or the mini hasn't even come out.

Eh, not a hard prediction. Everyone turns against 'The Man' whomever that may be

[Drops Of Venus]

Cat Justice on this variant cover for Champions. LOL

[Anthony W]

Well I remember when she team with the X-men a few years back she was flirting with Iceman who I think was flirting back but then the O5 happen

You mean when Brian Bendis saw a Family Guy cutaway gag and decided that was the direction to go with the character? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdSVXWPVev0

[classicgmer]

That is how I felt too--I was wanting the book for the appearance of the classic team. I hoped the new characters would be cool, but honestly I really didn't give a damn about them either way. I'd hate if we lose the chance to see the classic gang (and Psioniex! They were in one of the issues solicited pre-shutdown) because of the code names of some new characters that no one has actually read about in-story yet.

I'll be surprised if it isn't eventually published just because it seems like a lot of the other stuff is getting that treatment (Power Pack, The Union, etc) but like you i'd be getting the series because of the original characters.


I get what the writer is trying to do with exploring the themes associated with the new characters but you can do that without being so on the nose with the codenames because to me as is the names are cringe inducing. It also doesn't help that visually that the new additions look like rejected character models from the videogame Overwatch.

[Frontier]

Cat Justice on this variant cover for Champions. LOL

This is too cute for the story it's promoting .

[Digifiend]

Why is he a cat on that cover anyway? The three Champions shown there are still human, so it's not like it's showing the Outlawed event playing out in Spider-Ham's world.

[Frontier]

Why is he a cat on that cover anyway? The three Champions shown there are still human, so it's not like it's showing the Outlawed event playing out in Spider-Ham's world.

For added cuteness .

[shooshoomanjoe]

The first 26 issues from the first series is one of the MU's best runs.

[Drops Of Venus]

Why is he a cat on that cover anyway? The three Champions shown there are still human, so it's not like it's showing the Outlawed event playing out in Spider-Ham's world.

It's just something Rian Gonzales likes to do. If you look up her art, she always add cute animals to it.

[K7P5V]

The first 26 issues from the first series is one of the MU's best runs.

In agreement with you about the first 26 issues of the first run being the best!
Although IMHO, I thought the first 50 issues of the first run were great!
(along with me having a soft spot for the 75th & final issue, of course):

[PaxHouse]

JIC, you didn't get Today's release of CHAMPION #1.....spoilers:

Justice is a part of CRADLE & busts in on the Champion's meeting....!!

end of spoilers

[Digifiend]

Champions #1 came out three weeks ago, not today.

[Huntsman Spider]

JIC, you didn't get Today's release of CHAMPION #1.....spoilers:

Justice is a part of CRADLE & busts in on the Champion's meeting....!!

end of spoilers

Champions #1 came out three weeks ago, not today.

Speaking of that, I do understand where Justice is coming from, wanting to keep the Champions from ending up the same way the New Warriors did after Stamford, the inciting incident for the original superhero Civil War, and I'm glad they're not making him a complete jerk about it. It does fit with his character, overall, the same guy who decided that he would serve his sentence for his father's death despite his teammates trying to break him out, since paraphrasing him, "Just because these powers give me the ability to ignore the law, doesn't mean I should."

[Anthony W]

Is this book cancelled? It should be out by now but there are no reviews for it.

[Digifiend]

It was never resolicited, and we've got solicits for Power Pack #3 and Champions #4, so yeah, considering the three books were all meant to have their #1s in the same month, it's not looking good for New Warriors.