Untold Tales of the New Universe: Nightmask

    (Marvel, 2006)
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Marvel’s gone but not forgotten New Universe, a continuity spearheaded by former Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter during the late 1980s, got a second life with Warren Ellis’s plans to launch a new and improved version called Newuniversal sometime in 2006. Vague, early news of Ellis’ plans call for a complete revamping of the line with some attention paid to characters from the original New Universe run, including perhaps Nightmask. With plans possibly afoot for Nightmask, what better time to tie up loose narrative threads from the original series?

Nightmask ran for twelve issues before ending in 1987. For whatever reason, a major narrative shift occurred in Nightmask #5 that completely overlooked the cliffhanger ending of Nightmask#4. Nightmask fans who’ve lived in a state of narrative frustration for 19 years can now get relief because this volume effectively serves as Nightmask #4.5 by completing that broken story arc.

Nightmask, a kind of warrior of dreams, wades in to the dream world of his sister Teddy to confront the madman who killed their parents in Nightmask #1. Writer Fred Van Lente borrows heavily from dream-related pop psychology and neurophysiology to get the job done.

— Leland Burrill
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May, 2006
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