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New Universal





Publisher: Marvel Comics

Schedule: Monthly (Ongoing)

Dates: Feb. 2007 - Present

File Type: .CBR



Writer: Warren Ellis

Pencils/Inks/Cover: Salvador Larroca







A re-vamped version of Marvel's New Universe line of the 80s, the first issue starts

much as those books did, with the cosmic White Event, which grants 2 out of every

million people special abilities. The Event strikes an alternate Earth so far removed

from our own that John Lennon is alive and Paul McCartney is dead. Also, China is a

frightening superpower, but that's not too different from our world, except that in

New Universal they're building space stations on the moon instead of restaurants in

my neighborhood. Regardless, the world of New Universal is one without superheroes

and the like, prior to the White Event at least, and therefore the events unfolding

seem all the more striking and surreal. After a white flash in the sky, a comatose

police officer rises from the dead infused with powers of telepathy, a young woman

awakens in a dream world where a giant satellite informs her that her paradigm has

been shifted, a landslide unearths a Bronze Age tomb in Latvia, and a young man rises

from an alcoholic stupor to find his girlfriend burned to death on a hillside and a

glowing tattoo on his palm. Ending with these plot threads dangling tantalizingly

for the reader, New Universal promises to be an exciting exploration of Scientific

American mixed with The Fortean Times, as per usual for Ellis.





The art, by Salvador Larocca, is quite beautiful. The art here has a dreamy quality

that nicely counterpoints the weird science fiction of the story. Oneric pretensions

aside, there are some shocking moments in the story that are well served by the art,

like a unsettling frame featuring a charred corpse and a beetle. Intelligent and

exciting, New Universal promises to be a worthy, and lucid, addition to the Warren Ellis

canon, one that requires neither a grounding in quantum physics nor a fistful of magic

mushrooms to appreciate.

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