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| - Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen's irreverent parody of Super Teams, which featured five relatively obscure Super Heroes fighting the forces of H.A.T.E., a S.H.I.E.L.D-style organization who were discovered to be in league with the Beyond Corporation, the current incarnation of their former rivals, S.I.L.E.N.T. (Who doesn't love a good acronym?) The team consisted of:
* Monica Rambeau (Formerly known as Captain Marvel and Photon): The leader of the group. She used to lead The Avengers, and reminds her teammates of this fact at every available opportunity.
* Tabitha "Tabby" Smith (formerly known as Time Bomb, Boom-Boom, Boomer, Meltdown, Firecracker, and Mutate #35): A trailer-trash klepto with the "mutant powers of blowing things up and stealing all your stuff" (actual description). Her theft of the Beyond Corporation's Marketing Plan provided the impetus for the team to leave the employ of H.A.T.E.
* Aaron Stack (formerly known as X-51 and Machine Man): A surly, alcoholic, Do Anything Robotic Jerkass. Ended up as Ensemble Darkhorse for precisely those reasons.
* Elsa Bloodstone: Daughter of a famous monster hunter, she was the series' resident Action Girl.
* The Captain (Formerly known as Captain Power, Captain Ron, Captain L. Ron, Captain Universe, Captain Ultra, Captain Avenger, Captain Avalon, Captain Marvel, Captain ☠☠☠☠, and various others before finally giving up): An idiotic Flying Brick from Brooklyn who received his powers from benevolent aliens while drunkenly stumbling home. Subversion of The Good Captain and frequent victim of The Worf Effect. The only member of Nextwave created specifically for the series. The series ran for twelve issues, with each story arc being two issues long (although a case can be made for the final arc actually being four issues long). Plot wasn't a high priority, and served mostly as an excuse for the team to beat things up and cause things to explode.
- Nextwave is published by Marvel Comics. Current price per issue is $2.99.
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