These Are Not The New Warriors You Are Looking For

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Marvel showed off these New Warriors lookalikes at San Diego Comic-Con. Bit not so fast says EVP Tom Brevoort…

On the Friday of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, at the Diamond retail lunch, Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski showed off this promotional work by Luciano Vecchio for a brand new team of young superheroes for 2025.

New Marvel superhero team from the retailer lunch, photo by Heather Stirewalt

Twelve characters, I knew nine of them, Kid Juggernaut, Spider-Boy, Cadet Marvel, Hellrune, Moon Squire, Liberty, Coal Tiger, Moon Squire, Fantasma

New Marvel superhero team from the retailer lunch, photo by Heather Stirewalt

It is also worth noting that “Change The World” used to be a phrase associated with the nineties New Warriors. And that famous first issue cover by Mark Bagley… looks rather familiar.

Are these the New Warriors? Or the New New Warriors? Is Luciano Vecchio finally get to do the New Warriors that he was denied in 2020? Just something that no one will mistake for a serious version of an intended joke? It seems not…

This weekend, Marvel Comics SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort stated on his Substack that “Yes, there was a NEW WARRIORS project that got cancelled due to the shutdown, and yes, there are other projects coming up featuring young characters. But those aren’t NEW WARRIORS.”

So that’s settled. In 2020, Marvel Comics planned to publish New Warriors, a five-issue mini-series written by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert writer and producer Daniel Kibblesmith. and drawn by Luciano Vecchio and RB Silva. The team was to be made up of all-new heroes with a diverse range of backgrounds, including two called Safespace and Snowflake. For some outrage grifters this was the worst thing in the world Marvel had ever published, even though no one had read it, as Marvel never actually published it, as the pandemic hit. A video trailer for the comic from Marvel was been downvoted half a million times as opposed to seven thousand upvotes. Naturally, there were dozens of YouTube videos from the usual suspects mocking the very existence of this comic and blaming all of the industry’s ills on it, and reached an apogee on The Joe Rogan Experience TV show in a section labelled ‘Joe Rogan Learns About the Most SJW Comic Book Ever Made’ racking up another million views on YouTube alone. No one seemed to consider that the comic, pitting the old New Warriors against the new, Gen X trying to teach Gen Z, was meant to be a comedy, a generational clash. But as a result of the reaction it was never published. Marvel moves on.Itself a take on another comic, and a classic example of a publisher taking a team name of a much-loved superhero comic, even if no one had been buying it for years, recreated by a marketing department at Marvel trying to appeal to a non-existent audience that they will fail to reach.

A previous team of all-American heroes, one kept as a token, Cyclops, but pushed to the back of the group, and then introduced characters from Japan and Germany – countries that the USA was at war with only thirty years ago, added a Russian, from the Cold War,  a Canadian given universal healthcare powers and taken the powers associated with Norweigan Aryan gods of thunder and given it to a black woman. And a Native American because Normal Americans just aren’t good enough. Sorry, I got diverted. Back to these folks…

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