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NEXUS Returns!

23:39 / 03.08.07

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this series, which I first picked up in 82. Found the Dark Horse Archive editions at SDCC for ywenty bucks a pop and am having a flashback week that's actually extremely pleasant, as the old issues hold up perfectly, and the new issue was fun to boot.

Any other fans on Barbelith?

15:55 / 04.08.07

What, nobody read NEXUS back in the day?

Anybody?

**sound of empy echoing room***

16:16 / 04.08.07

You are not alone dude! I got into Nexus back when Dark Horse started publishing the title. Damn good comics for sure. Steve Rude's art just knocked my socks off.

The "God Con" 2-parter is one of my favorite Nexus tales - do you remember that one? Where all the Gods in the universe meet for their own SDCC-style event? Fun stuff.

Waiting for all 4 issues of this latest mini to come out before diving in, but I am certainly looking forward to it. Then there's Matt Wagner's Grendel returning in November! It's a great time for comics.

Any word on the Nexus animated feature that was proposed a few years ago? Steve Rude's art CGI-ified and up on a big screen would be too cool.

19:18 / 04.08.07

I loved and still love Nexus. Haven't read the individual issues in a looong time; they are somewhere in the depths of my collection.

I did leaf through the hardcover reprints of all the old NEXUS books that Dark Horse just put out. Also notable for the 'guest artist' period by many currently major artists - like Mike Mignola and I believe Adam Hughes.

Bought the first issue of the new Nexus; haven't read it all the way through. Looks great to me; and Todd Klein does his usual lettering magic.

Rude said at the San Diego Comic Con that the 2-minute sample footage of the Nexus animated project is all that remains of the now-aborted effort to get it going. Unless someone with big funding steps forward to revive the project, it's over.

02:02 / 05.08.07

I don't recall the Gods/SDCC story, although I am amazed at how many stories, scenes, even lines of dialogue were buried in my memory (I must have reread the old issues several times for that to happen).

I'm struck at how dryly funny the series is. Also, I never fully picked up on all the Dr. Suess riffs back in the day. Now I've read scads of Suess to my daughter and the references are everywhere.

Another amazing thing: the series emerges fully blown in terms of concept, style 7 vibe and it NEVER changes (IIRC). The new issue is so of a piece with the first ten issues: Baron and Rude really found their chord and stuck to it.

The archives are very high quality, superior to DC Archives - save for the excellent SPIRIT run - and Marvel's masterworks. I think the paper stock is thicker and the books seem like that have sewn bindings.

All told, I'm really happy to be back in NEXUSland. From the old to the new. The only drawback: it will take several years for the archives to get caught up to 1997. Argh! Still, there's always IDW's GRIMJACK reprints, although once Truman left, the book's perfection quotient dropped somewhat.

I think BADGER is getting a new mini and IIRC a reprint volume. I remember liking the series, but that's only a dim recollection.

In terms of 1980s classics, I wish Dynamic Forces would put out that 3 years delayed AMERICAN FLAGG! hardcover. I guess Chaykin might have been to busy to deliver the promised new story (a coda or a prologue). Can't imagine what else could have held things up so long.

02:03 / 05.08.07

Was it ever exlained why the Merk only sent Nexus after human mass murderers?

Also, I tolly missed the Plexus stories; were they illo'ed by Rude?

02:07 / 05.08.07

The animated project seems stalled. I read somewhere that the folks who helped with the animation demo got bored with it and legged off. I do not know if that means that the promo is less animated than it could have been, or of these people were helping the Dude pitch the project and bowed out after getting their noses bloodied (in terms of development people saying "no.")

I saw some of the demo at SDCC and liked it although the vibe (music, Sound effects) were VERY retro, which I think might have worked against the project. The promos were for sale, so I'd expect they can be ordered via Rude's website.

18:07 / 05.08.07

Rude has confirmed that the Badger will make a cameo in the current 4-issue arc/limited series.

05:56 / 06.08.07

How is THE MOTH, anyway? There's more of him to come from Rude Dude Productions too...

13:36 / 06.08.07

Honestly, as a big fan of The Dude, the Moth looked.... only ok. I remember skimming/reading it in the store and not being compelled enough to buy it.

14:41 / 06.08.07

I seem to remember that Nexus wiped out a bunch of alien mass murderers in the original series. Wasn't that how a lot of his alien pals wound up living with him in his Sanctuary: they were survivors of some of the genocides engineered by their fellow aliens?

Can't wait to see BADGER if it comes out. The series got repetitive pretty fast but the first 12 or so issues really made an impact on my soft, pink, adolescent brain when they came out.

20:13 / 06.08.07

At first NEXUS only wipes out human mass murderers. He refuses to kill an alien (Ziffer Meird) and Jonah winds up taking out Clausius. The scenario may have changed later in the series and I'm just not remembering. But I do think that the initial status quo was that he takes down human mass murderers, via dreams sent by the alien Merk.

16:27 / 07.08.07

furioso,did you ever read any of the Dark Horse Nexus comics? He definitely goes after aliens, as can be seen in this link here. The entire Dark Horse Nexus run seems to be still available, including the God Con 2-parter I mentioned and highly reccommend.

The Moth looked great but the story was pretty forgettable. The Superman vs. Hulk one shot though was outstanding. I love Nexus but it would be great to see Rude do some more Marvel &/or DC work too.

03:39 / 08.08.07

I'm still stuck with my Nexus-head in the 1980s, hence my dogged non-recollection of Nexus vs Aliens. I sold a buncha comics today and when I was sorting them, I found about 12 issues of the book, including the series you linked to plus God:Con. Oh, and my cpoy of the MOTH debut, which certainly looks damned spiffy.

Twenty odd year on and I STILL am not appreciating the Clonezone back-ups very much. Maybe it is the low-craft illos, but I dunno. Still, the main storyline is tops.

Rude is Food!