What Does the Future Hold for Nexus & Sundra?
Friday, May 11th, 2007
I’m not one to play favorites. Don’t have a favorite song, movie, or television show. Don’t even have a favorite color. Ask me for a top-ten list and you’ll come up empty. There are things I like, things I don’t like, and things that I’m more interested in than others at any given moment. That’s just how I’m wired.
But I might have a favorite comic book.
It isn’t Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, or X-Men. If you’re guessing Love & Rockets or some other indie fave, wrong again. There’s only one book that I’ve followed consistently for the last 25 years: Baron and Rude’s Nexus. Thing is, until now there hasn’t been a new issue of Nexus since 1997.
Senor Blitz of Happy Harbor, RI, was kind enough to ship me a box of loot from Free Comic Book Day. Of the 40-odd issues in the shipment, the Nexus’ Greatest Hits sampler was the first one I grabbed. It isn’t even a comic book per se, just a collection of pages from past issues. But it heralds the arrival of the first new Nexus story in 10 years. That, my friends, is the best news I’ve had in a long time.