{"id":16247,"date":"2023-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2021-11-28T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T04:03:46","slug":"new-warriors-annual-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/03\/01\/new-warriors-annual-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Warriors Annual 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Still seems weird and also perfectly understandable that Bags only did covers on this adventure at the same time. The ORIGINAL Sphinx. Original original? Is this the statue? I mean, that sounds dumb, but this is comics and I have no idea. It\u2019s strange from jump because this issue has a different creative team. New Warriors writer Fabian Nicieza tags in, which makes sense to a degree. His book, after all. But it\u2019s not like this is crucial material, and having one guy write 3 parts of a 4 part story is just odd. And the art team has nothing to do with anything, why couldn\u2019t it be the team from the last 3 issues? It\u2019s penciler Brandon Peterson, soon to break out drawing X-Men and begin a career that continues today, inked by Keith Williams, Mark Stegbaur, Al Milgrom AND Jimmy Palmiotti, with colors by Marie Javins and Sarra Mossof. That many people on art duties suggests either the artists from the previous 3 issues were supposed to do this one and couldn\u2019t make the deadline, or Brandon Peterson couldn\u2019t make his deadline. I\u2019ll never know. I think this might be Brando\u2019s first published work, poking around the internet. Interesting. Well, by the time I saw him in X-Men, he was doing his Jim Lee impression like anyone else doing comics in the early 90s (Especially X-Men), so let\u2019s see what he\u2019s up to here. All the heroes are in a bubble, Sphinx is monologuing, captions are recapping, it\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can see the style he would employ in X-Men, but it\u2019s not quite as Jim Lee-y. After the heroes fail to break out of the bubble using Firestar\u2019s powers, Speedball decides to break out of his separate glass tube prison. Something something he pulled all his energy back into him and let it all out at once, shattering his prison and the bubble. I dunno, it doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense, but this is the final chapter, we gotta start turning the tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Didn\u2019t take long for Nicieza to have someone say \u201cfeeb.\u201d It seems hard given the circumstances, but I bet he can manage to get someone to say \u201ccaught us\/you napping,\u201d too. He usually does!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s becoming apparent that Sphinx has fought The Warriors before. Maybe he\u2019s one of theirs. Oh, wow, turns out he goes back to the 70s Nova series. Ok, well, ok. Spider-Man calls refers to Speedball as \u201cthe twerp\u201d on the next page, which is obviously tremendously out of character, as they discuss how he could maybe control the energy Sphinx stole from him, but Speedy is bouncing out of control. Nova and Silhouette try to take Sphinx by force and are quickly knocked out. Spider-Man and Firestar are the only ones left standing, and they retreat to try to find a way to salvage the situation (and find the out-of-control Speedball).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okay! We cut to Speedball waking up on the ground somewhere else in the facility. I\u2019m really not sure how he got there. But some guards find him, and in his state, he almost kills them by accident, but then Firestar appears and disables. Them. Back at the ranch, the remaining Warriors are once again restrained, and Sphinx has swapped back into a business suit to tell Nova he doesn\u2019t know how he\u2019s alive. He says he was hoping Nova could tell him. What? Then Nova explains how they fought another Sphinx, an appropriately female one, who now has his \u201cKa-Stone,\u201d and blah blah blah, who cares, this isn\u2019t a New Warriors blog. He\u2019s doing all this to get enough power to go get his rock back, is the thing. We cut to Spider-Man, who\u2026 is listing unpleasant things he\u2019d rather be doing instead of this? He\u2019s also finding Speedy and Firestar by crawling through air vents. Speedball thinks Sphinx\u2019s stolen power will be wearing off soon without him to syphon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boy, Fabian writes a terrible Spider-Man. Sphinx has now changed BACK into his Sphinx suit, begging the reader to wonder why he changed out of it, about to try to steal the kids\u2019 energy again when the other 3 heroes burst in. Sphinx siccs Hammer\u2019s goon squad on them, but suddenly, Firestar can handle everything by herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sure coulda done this last issue, Angelica. The heroes free the other heroes, and Sphinx blows up all his own guys using a self-destruct in their armor, so he can syphon the energy from the explosions. What a good boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow the inking got bad on this page! That\u2019s so bad I wonder if they just got a layout instead of pencils, wow. Everyone starts fighting Sphinx. Firestar zaps him real good. How does he absorb energy? Wouldn\u2019t her zapping him be a good thing for him instead of an attack? Then Speedball attacks him, but Night Thrasher warns Sphinx is absorbing ambient energy, so that attack only helped him\u2026 which\u2026 means Firestar\u2019s blast 100% should have also, but whatever, I\u2019m kind over this mess. Robbie decides he can cancel out Sphinx\u2019s powers, but worried it might kill them both. He gives it a shot anyway, tho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, yeah. This sure didn\u2019t amount to much. What a dumb ending. \u201cWhere\u2019d all the bad guys go?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d \u201cYeah, it doesn\u2019t actually matter.\u201d The rest of the book is a bunch of New Warriors stuff I have no desire to talk about. Next time, it\u2019s back to regular programming, and a comic that may blow a secret I\u2019ve been really trying to keep the whole time I\u2019ve done this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still seems weird and also perfectly understandable that Bags only did covers on this adventure at the same time. The ORIGINAL Sphinx. Original original? Is this the statue? I mean, that sounds…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[225,253,1474,267,926,269,1015,1475,1466,924,1354,780,1467,337,1473,2],"class_list":["post-16247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-annual","tag-bob-sharen","tag-brandon-peterson","tag-fabian-nicieza","tag-firestar","tag-keith-williams","tag-marie-javins","tag-mark-stegbaur","tag-namorita","tag-new-warriors","tag-night-thrasher","tag-nova","tag-silhouette","tag-speedball","tag-sphinx","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16258,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions\/16258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}