The murder is done.Īnd then the starving, tortured survivors crawl forth from the rubble. “NO? Then let your death be a little thing … quickly forgotten.” “Stand up and take it like a man!” he demands of his victim. Nexus come blazing in, like a million superheroes have done before. Like many of the Nazis, he’s no super-villain, just a bad, pudgy man. In one we see Horatio - now the all-powerful Nexus - do some eye-ball popping, shazaam-tastic, comic-book blasting! But in the other, we see Nexus arrive to take down a horrible Nazi-ish figure. In this book, Nexus: The Origin, we see two of his first killings and two of the most interesting. In fact, in one of the finest stories, Horatio must kill a feeble old woman. In most cases, the murderers stand no chance at all. To do this, Horatio has been given nearly infinite power. The dreams don’t stop until he personally tracks down the killer and execute him. Dreams in which he feels the agony of every victim. The hero, Horatio Hellpop, is tormented by dreams of mass murder. It’s a unique story among superheroes and Baron and Rude have found many ways to keep it taking new, surprising, even frustrating turns. He’s got some big ideas and in Nexus he has found a way to turn them into a cracking good tale.

The writer Mike Baron is no slouch either, as they say. And a dude - The Dude, he calls himself - who is not above sneaking Kirk and Spock or something Seuss-ish into a book. An artist with wild new ideas and a love of old-school illustration. The artist Steve Rude is simply astonishing. It’s just one of those things where two great talents collide and create something more than a masterpiece, since after all any old master can make a masterpiece. Yes, I’m giving it away to a lucky Guys Lit Wire reader. However, I found it in a shoppe recently and thinking that it was a perfect introduction to the greatest superhero comic series ever written, I decided to scoop it up and make sure it got into deserving hands. This comic book - or should I say graphic novella - is not from my personal horde of Nexus comics. Like Scrooge on Christmas morning, I throw open my shutter anxious to share the good things of life with others. … to be given away to a deserving young reader. Nexus: The Origin, a fine comic book by Mike Baron and Steve Rude.

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