Current Reviews   nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. v.1  Posted:
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 By: Dave Wallace  Collecting issues
#1-6 of nextwave.  Writer: Warren Ellis Artists: Stuart Immonen
(p), Wade Von Grawbadger (i), Dave McCaig (colours)  Publisher:
Marvel Comics  The Warren Ellis marathon that I've been
undertaking over recent months brings me to nextwave, one of his
most recent works for Marvel, and one that I've been holding out
on until I could get my hands on the collected edition. nextwave
(all lower case, please) is a knockabout team book which is as
irreverent and unpretentious as you can imagine a mainstream
superhero book to be, throwing together some relatively
unmemorable old Marvel characters (and creating a few new ones)
in a series of short adventures which is as light and silly as
it is action-packed and imaginative.  The book sees a renegade
splinter group turn against their superiors in the global
espionage initiative known as H.A.T.E. - presented as a bizarro
S.H.I.E.L.D., and led by the ps