CSBG Archive
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 233
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far!
Today we look at a fun scene from Nextwave #10…
The basic concept is that Forbush Man has captured the Nextwave crew using his mental powers – he has trapped them in their own minds (in cute parodies of various comic books, as writer Warren Ellis trusts his brilliant artist Stuart Immonen to depict various different art styles).




That’s all fine and good, but he overlooked one member of the team…


Hilarious stuff from Ellis and Immonen.
Nextwave ruled!






30 Comments
James
August 22, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I think my faith in comics has been restored. Wow.
Bill Reed
August 22, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Nextwave was too beautiful to live.
Kolya
August 22, 2009 at 3:08 pm
it goes without saying that Immonen – in his capacity as one of the greatest comic book artists how ever lived – completely aces the various styles in these scenes. Special props should also go to letterer Joe Caramagna though, for a great job on his part of the getting the looks right.
Tom Fitzpatrick
August 22, 2009 at 4:40 pm
What the heck wuz Marvel thinking cancelling this fine book?!? They should’ve dumped half of the X-titles if they wanted to CUT costs!!!
Mea
August 22, 2009 at 5:03 pm
You left out the part where Machine Man bashes his own head into oblivious, and yet still has to answer the phone.
Many cool moments to be gleaned from that series… Everything got skewered.
“…you do not appear to have one” [snicker]
Dave
August 22, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Why does Tabby look like a dude?
pmpknface
August 22, 2009 at 8:04 pm
excellent
chad
August 22, 2009 at 9:33 pm
lol loved the moment where forbush man is getting mad some one is not under his power only to figure out she has no mind for his power to work on and she gives him a royal butt kicking and the last line i gave him the explodo because i am clever priceless
McGone
August 22, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I’m still laughing at Bill Reed’s “Nextwave was too beautiful to live” line. I haven’t laughed that hard since… well, since “Nextwave,” to be honest.
Damn all of you people who didn’t read it while you had the chance.
Scott Harris
August 22, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I would totally buy that Captain Marvel comic.
Matt Ampersand
August 23, 2009 at 3:46 am
I didn’t buy Nextwave in singles (sorry!) but I purchased the two collections when they came out, and I fucking love it to bits. As a matter of fact, we should have a “Nextwave” week of Cool Comic Book Moments.
What is the Machine Man strip a reference to? Newspaper comics such as Dilbert?
Joe Rice
August 23, 2009 at 4:59 am
Machine Man is a Dan Clowes riff.
rwe1138
August 23, 2009 at 7:19 am
Nextwave could easily take up a whole week of cool comic book moments.
Ryan
August 23, 2009 at 9:45 am
When a comic carries the tag-line “Like Shakespeare . . . But MORE PUNCHING!” in ads for itself you know you’ve got something fantastic.
I <3 this book.
Dean
August 23, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I bought the recent Hellcat trade, mostly because it collected the Immonen-drawn Hellcat story from Marvel Comics Presents. And yes, Nextwave was far, far too god for this world.
buttler
August 23, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I just love that she actually says “Zomg.”
Horsebandit
August 23, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I could never figure out what artist was being referenced in the Captain Universe section.
Michael Howey
August 24, 2009 at 1:09 am
I loved the coulour it in special. I really need to colour it in.
Rusty Priske
August 24, 2009 at 5:22 am
I seem to remember an actual comic with Machine Man in it that looked like that. I think it was a Marvel Two-in-One.
Paul1963
August 24, 2009 at 8:49 am
Tabby also says “Ohnoes!” (ONOZ) out loud and, at one point, misspelled her own name scrawling it on a street.
Nextwave drinks all your beer, sleeps with your girlfriend and deletes all the unwatched programs from your DVR. And it’s not a bit sorry.
Nextwave will borrow your favorite CD and return it a year later with a big scratch in it and no booklet or jewelbox. Nextwave has decided your favorite band sucks.
Nextwave demands that The Captain join the New Avengers and that Tabby make the Hood’s head ‘splode.
Lynxara
August 24, 2009 at 9:11 am
Didn’t Tabby get killed in one of the more godawful satellite X-books recently?
rwe1138
August 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Lynxara:
The cliffhanger made it look like she had, but it was later revealed she was okay.
Lynxara
August 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Oh, good. I wrinkled my nose a little when I read about that.
Cahse
August 24, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I love the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Easter Island head.s
Olav The Hairy
August 26, 2009 at 5:10 am
Probably the funniest comic ever written. Thank you Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen!
Felicity
August 29, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Comic book characters should not say “Zomg.”
wwk5d
August 30, 2009 at 2:42 am
What is Stuart Immonen doing now?
Brian Cronin
August 30, 2009 at 2:42 am
He’s the regular artist on New Avengers (and he’s doing an amazing job, as always).
Blackjak
September 2, 2009 at 8:27 am
*sniff* Thank you, Brian, thank you!
Panji Sudoyo
September 9, 2009 at 1:01 am
One of the best series Marvel has produced..EVER.
Give us Nextwave again, Marvel!!!…Now, dammit!!..Now!!