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GV10: [Results] Best New Team! Check page 2 for results!
DJ Eebs
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Our next category is Best New Team.
This category is for your favorite new team of characters. I'm going to expand this a little bit: if the team was formed before April 2005, but had a much larger run of comics during the 4/05-4/15 time period, we'll let them in. As I've said in some of the other threads: I want this to be a pretty inclusive poll. If I can find any excuse to put a team in, I'll let it in. These polls are meant to be fun, above all, and being needlessly tedious about rules isn't fun at all!
Rules
1) Nominate as many teams as you want! There's no limit
2) If you see one of your favorites has already been nominated, feel free to second or third or fourth that nomination!
3) Please talk about why you think your favorite characters deserve to be in this poll. Simply posting a character name won't disqualify your nomination, but...
4) ...this thread is also for you to state your case for your favorite teams! I won't be making a seperate voting thread, so here's where you make your case
5) And above all: keep it civil. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want to see people slagging on each other or their choices, try and keep it positive, alright?
Alright, and nominations are open...NOW
Put your nominations in BOLD TEXT. You don't need to all caps them, though
This category is for your favorite new team of characters. I'm going to expand this a little bit: if the team was formed before April 2005, but had a much larger run of comics during the 4/05-4/15 time period, we'll let them in. As I've said in some of the other threads: I want this to be a pretty inclusive poll. If I can find any excuse to put a team in, I'll let it in. These polls are meant to be fun, above all, and being needlessly tedious about rules isn't fun at all!
Rules
1) Nominate as many teams as you want! There's no limit
2) If you see one of your favorites has already been nominated, feel free to second or third or fourth that nomination!
3) Please talk about why you think your favorite characters deserve to be in this poll. Simply posting a character name won't disqualify your nomination, but...
4) ...this thread is also for you to state your case for your favorite teams! I won't be making a seperate voting thread, so here's where you make your case
5) And above all: keep it civil. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want to see people slagging on each other or their choices, try and keep it positive, alright?
Alright, and nominations are open...NOW
Put your nominations in BOLD TEXT. You don't need to all caps them, though
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The Guardians of the Galaxy:2008
Like. thanks guys for showing up. You're all great. It's good to have you. Go ahead and get some shrimp at the bar. Have a seat. Get nice and cozy. Hell, take a nap if you want to. This whole thing should be wrapping up in a couple of minutes anyway.
Now, keep in mind, this would have been my pick BEFORE the blockbuster, best-selling movie of 2014. A bunch of galactic misfits who fought together during the Annihilation War decide to hang out and try to make that thing not happen again. Shenanagins ensue. Starring Peter(old peter!) Quill, the snarky older Han Solo vet, Gamora:Literally the most dangerous woman in the Galaxy, Rocket Racoon: Literally a Racoon, Groot: I am, Smart Drax: May or may not be Vin Diesel, and Phyla-Vell: the newest inheritor of the Quasar Bands, and Mantis:Totally adorable. Oh, and Adam Warlock, but no one cares about him.
Shenanagins ensue.
It was a great little run, and an insanely lovable cast of characters, especially when Cosmo joins up. It was a legit fun run that didn't sell half as well as it should have, which, Kevin Feige smartly realized and decided to make this a movie for no financial reason whatsoever. And I LOVE him for it.
Honorable Nomination:
Nextwave:
Well, there's gotta be another team that's ground into dust under Guardians Heel, so it might as well be the team that really isn't even a team in the first place.
One of my legit favorite Ellis works, 90% of which is the cast of characters chosen.
Monica Rambeau, aka the first female Captain Marvel, aka I'm a FUCKING AVENGER DAMMIT.
Aaron Stack: The Machine Man
The Captain: aka Captain $%!&$!
Elsa Bloodstone: Demon Hunter and overall badass
Boom Boom: .....Boom
Seriously. Read Nextwave.
Aside from them for me, I'd go Lumberjanes first. If you haven't had the chance to read it, I highly recommend it. It's bright, colorful and is just a joy to read. Anyone that read Lookouts or watches Gravity Falls would do well picking up the first storyline - it has the same feeling. Mythological creatures, woodland adventures, friendship and sacrifice, it is one of my monthly highlights.
Second, I second Superior Foes, such a great book.
Technically they're a revival, but the version most people know was introduced in July 2005, during DC's Villains United.
Oh, and (Lockjaw and the) Pet Avengers. They were a short series, but they're pretty much the best and we all know it.
Doesn't hurt that even the creative team - Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Paolo Rivera - is a superstar team.
Transformers again - Crew of the Lost Light from MTMTE. A team which has run a tonal gamut from whacky hijinks to high stakes action and horror to romance without ever missing a beat.
I can't really think of any new team that has had a bigger impact or insane rise to popularity.
They went from an obscure title that hadn't been used in decades to a beloved cult favorite book to a hugely successful movie franchise that has become a cultural touchstone.
Not bad for a team with a talking Raccoon and Tree
They also feature the #3 and #12 characters from the best new character list, so, I mean...there's that.
I'm tempted to nominate the Runaways, since the second volume is firmly within the time limit, and it's also super goddamned great. Ah, you know what? I'm just going to nominate the Runaways anyways. If you don't like it, you can vote for someone else! There.
It was the beginning of the Avengers going from Marvel's B-List team book behind the X-Men to the driving force behind the entire company for nearly the whole decade. It changed up the concept of what The Avengers could be, with perennial loners Spider-Man and Wolverine joining the title alongside third-stringers like Luke Cage and Spider-Woman. It eventually took a backseat to the Avengers proper when The Heroic Age rolled around but still felt like the most genuine of the two books, because Bendis had turned it into more than just a superhero team, it was a group of friends and family helping each other out and saving the world.
Now the movie has really messed with the comic version because they demand synchronized characterization (just let the movie group be cool their way, let the comics be cool their way, everyone's cool then, ok?), to the point where the most interesting character is the one who is still the comics guy (Iron Man the first arc, Venom currently), but maybe Marvel will just ease up a bit and let them be that galaxy wide-team living in a Celestials head instead of just outlaws on a ship.
Secret Six, one of the best team concepts, revitalizing pretty much every character it touched. That's impressive by itself, but making Scandal Savage grow and become something more than a pet character who could have easily been forced down the readers throat but because the right combination of C-listers in Catman and Ragdoll and Deadshot were lifting everything up, she grew as well into a great character.
Pet Avengers. a team so amazing and powerful they beat Thanos in their first appearance and Marvel has blacklisted this from ever being known because they have to make Thanos super tough for the movies, but we know. We know. Like Mini Marvels, a concept so great and so evergreen it makes everything else pale in comparison.
Nominating Young Justice (TV series team) - in just two seasons the show created a huge, well developed universe. The second season, especially, focused on a diverse cast of lesser known (to non-comic fans) characters. The team (and show) had a great balance of teenage personalities, and really showed how younger characters can work in a more "mainstream" setting.
and at risk of stuffing the ballot with Marvel titles, the Future Foundation
New Avengers: whatever you think of the stories themselves, which admittedly could vary wildly in quality from arc to arc, this team was a seminal turning point in the comics industry and is not only directly responsible for giving us incredible things like Spider-Man: Avenger or Poker Night at the Sanctum Santorum, but it's also the team and the book where characters like Luke Cage, Carol Danvers, and Doctor Strange found a new spotlight and new life that enabled to become bigger and better than they were before. And that's not all this team gave us, which leads me to my next two teams.
The Illuminati : A rather brilliant idea that has only gotten better with age, as Jon Hickman took a concept that had already given us a ton of fantastic moments during the Bendis Era (that Black Bolt reveal and ensuing fight is still one of the coolest damn things ever) and turned it into the backbone of his own mind boggling Avengers run.
Dark Avengers: in my opinion the unquestioned high point of Bendis' time on the Avengers, such a dark, weird, funny, crazy book starring a spider-man villain and then a bunch of characters no one cared about and it was the biggest superhero book in the industry for it's all too short run.
Generation Hope: god damn did I love this book, a short lived, precious flower that gave poignancy and weight to the consequences of M day in a way most other X-books paid lip service too, and it's also probably the only book that treated Hope as a character rather than a symbol or a plot device. I miss that Hope and her wacky friends.
But there is only one real answer here:
Uncanny X-Force
I still remember looking at the solicits for this book and thinking "Psylocke? Deadpool? Fantomex? Who the fuck wants to read this team." Turns out I did, as Rick Remender somehow crafted this black ops book into the best singular X-Men story I've maybe ever read, despite having exactly one character I gave a fuck about beforehand and 2 that I actively hated before reading this book. (Ok, I still hate Deadpool whenever anyone else writes him). It also features the two best Apocalypse stories ever written, despite Apocalypse not actually appearing in either one. If you have somehow never read this series please god do yourself a favor and pick it up.
Note: not to be confused with the really shorty Sam Humphries written version of the team with the same name that happened after Remender's run.
On the outs with SHIELD, Fury stays in the game and secretly puts together a team from his Caterpillar files; they're the cavalry that steps in during Secret Invasion, and when the a shocking revelation comes about SHIELD,
it's up to Fury and his team to take them out.
Also going to nominate the Rat Queens. These ladies are rowdy, foul-mouthed, and will totally kick the shit out of orcs and monsters to get the gold and they're totally better than the Four Daves or any of those other fellas.
And totally better than Gary. Fuck that guy.
Oh fuck how did I forget both of these (UXF is still the number 1 answer tho)
I mean, you can straight up nominate the X-Men, but if you want a team to have a serious shot in the polls I would maybe suggest narrowing it down
I think the breakpoints of All New X-Men, The Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, and the Uncanny X-Men:aka The Cyclops team should all be valid as long as you're specific with what era of the team you're choosing.
I also second New Avengers, since it was the book that got me to pay attention to comics.
And Young Justice (if it counts).
And Future Foundation.
Jeez, you guys got all the good ones already. But damn, they're good ones.
Also Seconding
-Illuminati: As, exemplified by Hickmans run, this team pushed some beloved characters into bold new directions, but in a much more mature fashion an comics often manage.
-Rat Queens: a fun, rough and tumble group of gals living out what is effectively a demented D&D campaign.
-Nextwave and the Superior Foes both did a fantastic job of weaving hilarious tales with z-list characters. Commendable.
-Future Foundation: Hope and cheer can often be in short commodity in superhero comics, so let's do a comic about super smart kids learning about crazy science and making the world a better place.
Nominating the The Warbound from Planet Hulk. A group of misfits and monsters form a bond with the Hulk and each other that leads them to overthrow an oppressor, and eventually to follow the Hulk in vengeance against Earth. Also, they had a Brood who isn't evil long before Broo, and I love it when "bad guy" races are proven to not be entirely evil.
I really liked them.
Rat Queens. Foul mouthed group of female RPG fantasy adventurers. Yes please.
Team Hawkeye. It may only be two people and a dog, but damn if they're not entertaining.
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Man, I can't think of a single new DC team from when I started regularly reading comics in 2009 that has 1. actually been good, and 2. lasted more than 18 issues.
The cast was rounded out by a kid Nightcrawler (from a world completely destroyed in an AI rebellion), a Civil War-era African-American Corporal Scott Summers, and James Howlett, Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada and Viceroy of Her Majesty's expedition to Shangri-La (also, totally in love with Hercules; they make a great couple). Together they fought all kinds of evil Xaviers, from the my little pony one to the Nazi one to the Space whale one.
It was a short-lived series that I wish could've lasted a little longer (or at least ended better), and it's a shame that nobody has done anything with the characters ever since.