Welcome to Nuke Me with the New: a site dedicated to Marvel's New Universe line of comic books from the late 1980's. If you're not familiar with the New Universe -- how'd you get here? -- I suggest you read the introduction. If you start there, you'll find a link or two at the bottom of each page to guide you through the site.

Universe News

13 May 2008

Shipping this week is the Psi-Force Classic trade paperback containing Psi-Force #1-9. You can also find newuniversal: shockfront #1 on the stands and you might want to check out Amazing Spider-Man #559. It contains a visual gag of "Starbrand Coffee," a parody of Starbucks with the Star Brand logo. Thanks to Dave Van Domelen for mentioning it in his weekly capsule comic reviews.

10 Jan 2008

Out last week was Exiles: Days of Then and Now, a one-shot celebrating 100 issues of Exiles. Included in it is an appearance by Jenny Swensen and the MAX armor, presumably from the same version of the New Universe the Exiles went traipsing through during their World Tour.

14 Dec 2007

Mark Davis points out a preview of the Exiles: Days of Then and Now one-shot at Newsarama that shows what looks like a version of Jenny Swensen in the Spitfire armor. We'll find out for sure when the issue comes out January 2nd.

Speaking of Mark Davis, back in May I asked for newuniversal sites, because I didn't plan to cover it much. Mark has started his own site, NewUniverseComics.com, where he's covering both the original NewU and newuniversal, so if you're a fan of the latter, keep an eye on it (and/or long-time NewU site The New Universe Handbook).

2 Oct 2007

I mention this only because you probably won't see it elsewhere. Warren Ellis, in his latest mailing list post, says, "waiting on the new artist to get free to commence newuniversal, on which I'm thankfully a few full scripts ahead." That is all.

26 Jul 2007

All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z: Update #3, released this week, includes a two-page entry for Chrome, a.k.a. Jennifer "Spitfire" Swensen.

25 Jun 2007

Marvel's solicitations for August include D.P. 7 Classic, vol. 1, a trade paperback containing D.P. 7 #1-9.

21 May 2007

I debated how much to cover newuniversal when it was released. In the end, I've decided not to cover it in detail. There's simply too much backlog for the original New Universe to worry about the, er, new one. (So if anyone wants to submit newuniversal sites for the Links page, go ahead.) This announcement, however, seemed important enough to mention.

Warren Ellis has announced on his mailing list that newuniversal is going on hiatus after #6. He assures fans that sales are fine, but "it's just that we have some internal stuff to reconfigure." No word on exactly how long the hiatus will be.

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