NewMen #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeNewMen #7 represents a snapshot of the Extreme Studios universe at full mid-decade stride: written by Eric Stephenson with art by Todd Nauck, it continued the ongoing serialized adventures of the Nu-Gene-powered New Men team while weaving in villains like the Brotherhood of Man, Elemental, and Khyber — recurring antagonists that gave the series more narrative continuity than many of its Extreme contemporaries. The issue is also notable for the breadth of Image Universe characters indexed within its pages, almost certainly through a pin-up or poster insert, reflecting the era's house-wide promotional culture; the appearance list spans characters from Spawn, Medieval Spawn, and Violator to Supreme, Prophet, and Youngblood's own Shaft, making the issue a minor time capsule of how Extreme Studios actively cross-promoted its entire line. Critically, NewMen was one of the few Liefeld-connected titles to maintain a reliable publication schedule, and this issue arrived right on time as the title gained its footing as a genuine ongoing series rather than a mini-series follow-up.
In NewMen #7, the fractured team fights for survival in the darkened sewers, with Exit unconscious and Dash carrying the weight of her pregnancy as they evade relentless giant robots. Khyber steps in to help, but above ground, the Newmen are being falsely accused of murder—pushing the government to summon Team Youngblood to hunt them down. Written by Eric Stephenson and illustrated by Todd Nauck, with inks by Jonathan Sibal and Danny Miki, colors by Nathan Lumm and Extreme Color, and letters by Kurt Hathaway, this 1994 Image Comics issue features a cover by Todd Nauck and Al Gordon.
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NewMen launched in 1994 out of the Extreme Prejudice crossover, with the New Men first appearing in Brigade vol. 2 #8 before receiving a five-issue mini-series written by Eric Stephenson with art by Jeff Matsuda, who co-plotted alongside Stephenson and Liefeld. When the series graduated to an ongoing, Matsuda did not continue on art, and Todd Nauck stepped in to pencil most of the first twenty issues — giving the book a consistent visual identity that distinguished it from the more erratic production of other Extreme titles. Issue #7 falls squarely in Nauck's early tenure on the book, during the period when Stephenson was building out the team's rogues' gallery and the wider Nu-Gene mythology.
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- Published October 1994 by Image Comics under Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios imprint; part of the NewMen ongoing series that launched the same year.
- Written by Eric Stephenson with pencils and cover art by Todd Nauck — Nauck handled the art on most of the first 20 issues of the ongoing series after Jeff Matsuda departed following the mini-series.
- Features the Brotherhood of Man, Elemental, and Khyber as in-story antagonists; Elemental and the Brotherhood of Man are recurring villains threaded throughout the Stephenson run.
- The large indexed character roster — including Spawn, Medieval Spawn, Al Simmons, Violator, Supreme, Prophet, Shaft, and other non-NewMen characters — is consistent with the era's practice of including Image/Extreme Universe pin-ups or poster inserts, as seen in surrounding issues of the series.
- The New Men are 'Nu-Gene' positive teenagers whose powers are Extreme Studios' in-universe equivalent of Marvel's mutant gene, and the concept underpins nearly every storyline in the book.
- The series was co-created by Rob Liefeld and Eric Stephenson; Liefeld played a minimal ongoing role in production, which is credited by multiple sources as one reason the book kept a healthier shipping schedule than flagship Extreme titles like Youngblood.
- NewMen #7 arrives just one issue before the 'New Blood' two-part crossover with Team Youngblood (NewMen #8 / Team Youngblood #15), placing it at the front edge of the book's first major inter-title event tie-in.
- The series went on to participate in multiple Extreme Studios line-wide crossovers including Extreme Sacrifice, Babewatch, and Extreme Destroyer, with NewMen #10 serving as a chapter in Extreme Sacrifice.
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