The New Wave (comics)
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The New Wave was a superhero team comic book published 1986-87 by Eclipse Comics. The team debuted in a preview included in the pages of two other Eclipse publications, The New DNAgents #8 and Miracleman #8, before debuting in its own book. For its initial eight issues, The New Wave was published bi-weekly as a half-length book. Beginning with issue 9 through the end of the 13-issue run the book became a full-sized monthly.
Following the cancellation of the regular book, The New Wave returned in a two-issue "micro-series" called The New Wave versus The Volunteers. The book was rendered in 3-D but also available in non-3D format.
New Wave members were:
- Avalon - teenage daughter of the legendary superhero "The Lady," Avalon is a powerful witch.
- Dot - a freelance spy with the power to shrink herself and, while small, fly and fire bio-electric blasts.
- Impulse - Avalon's neighbor, he is telekinetic.
- Megabyte - a robot programmed with the brain patterns of a physically disabled teenage boy.
- Polestar - a circus acrobat, she carries a telescoping pole for hand-to-hand combat.
- Tachyon - blue-skinned, blue-haired extra-dimensional being with superhuman strength and the power of flight.
Supporting cast included James Holmes, Avalon's father and a scientist who was partially responsible for bringing Tachyon from his home dimension, and The Heap, a Golden Age character similar to Marvel's Man-Thing.
Following the bankruptcy of Eclipse comics, its properties were purchased by Todd McFarlane. Presumably this includes the rights to the New Wave characters. The supporting character Heap has been "re-imagined" and has been an antagonist to Spawn.
