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Flux? Who are you responding to, man?
Captain Zoom, if no one else wants to talk New Universe, i will. I only ever collected a few titles, and I still have some of my favourite issues. For some reason I really liked Spitfire and the Troubleshooters. The idea that it was just a normal industrial robot suited up was appealing. And that the Troubleshooters were just a bunch of kids who could have stepped right out of Sneakers. It tapped into that feeling that one day you might get in over your head and have to rely on your ability to pull pranks on people to survive, mixed in with a giant robot. Of course, it sucked, but that shouldn't matter.
I collected Psi-Force fairly constantly, and that was about it. Again, they were definitely tapping into some pre-teen fantasies. I was right into psychic powers back then.
One thing the New Universe doesn't get credit for is that every issue was self-contained, and that each series actually happened in real time, month by month.
I just reread my Atari Forces. They're pretty scattershot, so it wasn't very coherhent. From what I remember, Atari Force first started out as insert comics in the games themselves and as adverts in various DC Comics. The Atari Force series took place over twenty years later, with the children of the original comics. The video connection stopped at the names of a few characters, like Tempest.
Basically, Champion (I can't remember his first name, and I can't bother looking, but he looks like Paul Newman), father of Tempest (a kid with a mullet, a headband, and teleportation powers), senses an evil presence from his past coming to destroy Earth. He assembles a crew, they steal a ship, and along the way they pick up all sorts of weird creatures, like Babe (a huge monster with the intellect of a child), Pakrat (a cowardly klepto rodent) and Taz and his Tazlings (a warrior who spoke in a language they couldn't understand, and her children, the future equivalent of gremlins). Oh, hell, I'll round I off. Dart and Blackjack, two rogues, one of whom betrays them, and Morphea, an empath.
Which makes it all sound incredibly bad. Which, in a way, it was. What it had going for it was a huge cast of well-defined characters (much larger then I detailed above), many subplots, bitter in-fighting and a very dark, non-heroic tome. Worth the quarter.
It must be late. I've just spent six lengthy paragraphs defending the New Universe and Atari Force.
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