#horatio hellpop

[evilhorse]

I am new at this.

(Nexus: The Liberator #3)

[chernobog13]

Nexus zipping through space by his co-creator Steve Rude.

Great news for Nexus fans: The Dude has brought back Nexus and the gang in a self-published mini-series Nexus: The Newspaper Strips!

The second volume, the five-issue Battle For Thuneworld, just concluded, but you can still get copies at your local comics shop. If they don't have any, tell them to order some more from Diamond or Rude Dude Productions.

The first volume, The Coming of Gourmando (which is basically a "what if Nexus battled Galactus?" tale) has been collected in a couple of different editions and is also available to order.

Like the Hellboy series at Dark Horse, The Dude envisions each new Nexus tale being released as a self-contained mini-series.

If you love The Dude's art as much as I do, or are a big Nexus fan like I am, or just love great Silver Age-style super heroics mixed with space opera and a huge dollop of humor, this is the series for you!

[vertigoartgore]

Nexus #37-38, #43-44, #51 & #55 covers by artist Paul Smith. Source

[theartofthecover]

Nexus: Nefarious HC [Textless] (2023)

Art by: Richard Bonk and Ichsan Ansori

[kemple]

My Baltimore Comic Com Annual piece for this year, featuring Rude and Baron’s Nexus teaming up with my character Red Vengeance.

[rftarsinghsworld-blog]

Follow your own path

Kp

[travisellisor]

pages 30 and 31 from Nexus (1981) #3 by Steve Rude and Mike Baron

[keycomicbooks]

Nexus #1 Vol. 1 (1981) Cover Signed By Mike Baron and Steve Rude & Steve Rude Pencils, Story, 1st appearance of Nexus, “Full-Size Pull-Out Nexus Poster!” “The Coming of Nexus” – (31-page story in 3 chapters) – Horatio Hellpop dreams of mass murderers, when he awakes he must seek them out and meet out justice. Sundra Peale, a reporter, travels to Ylum to interview him, while there a visitor offers to end Nexus' dreams if he will kill a sentient – Zieffer Meird the dictator of Hacyon.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FNYDP4J?ref=myi_title_dp

[esonetwork]

'Nexus' Book Review By Ron Fortier

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/nexus-book-review-by-ron-fortier/

'Nexus' Book Review By Ron Fortier

NEXUS By Mike Baron www.bloodyredbaron.com 403 pgs

We’d guess most reading this review are well aware that Nexus was a science-fiction comic book series created by Eisner winning writer Mike Baron and illustrated by Steve Rude. Now, long after the days of First Comic and the Bronze Age of the Independents, Baron has given us a truly amazing Nexus novel that will simply blow your mind.

Baron’s prose doesn’t so describe a setting as injecting it directling into your imagination with his verbal scalpel. His prose is a joyous romp elevating the art of storytelling to a whole new level. One you shouldn’t even consider passing by.

The plot is basic good versus evil, only on a cosmic scale. Gourmando is an eater of worlds and he’s chosen the planet Ylum as his next galactic entrée. What this all powerful devourer doesn’t know is Ylum is also the home of Horatio Hellpop, the universe’s own avenging angel. Nexus will do anything within his own amazing powers to save his world and its wonderful, spirited freedom loving alien citizenry.  Even to point of sacrificing himself so that they might live.

“Nexus” does what Baron has always done in his brash, no-holds-barred career. It takes chances, it makes one laugh and cry while musing the eternal question, “Why?” Unlike Victor Hugo’s Quasimodo, we think Horation Hellpop might counter, “Why not?”

[jasposeyblog]

Nexus built and painted by Randy Van Dyke and sculpted by Troy McDevitt

[evilhorse]

Clean cover of Nexus: The Origin #1

[chernobog13]

Steve Rude's reworking of his own cover for Nexus (vol. 2) #15 (December, 1985).

[vertigoartgore]

1981's Nexus Vol.1 #1 cover by Paul Gulacy.

[theartofthecover]

Nexus pin-up (2011)

Art by: Steve “the Dude” Rude

[seanpatricklittlewriter]

A worthy Kickstarter novel

A lot of people have told me I should do Kickstarter or Patreon or Indiegogo to get more projects off the ground. I've always resisted because it just feels like there are too many out there. There are a ton of creative people fighting for a very slim slice of the world's financial pie, and I just feel like I would be setting myself up for failure if I tried to pursue those fundraisers. I always try to keep it simple: I write the book first, and then I hope people buy it.

I'm not opposed to supporting worth projects, though. That's why I wanted to take a second to point out Mike Baron's upcoming Nexus novel.

Years ago, when I was but a lad, one of my best buddies, Steve Kittleson, introduced me to Capitol Comics, specifically Mike Baron's Nexus and Badger comics. I loved them both, particularly The Badger.

The Badger still is my favorite crimefighter of all-time. Norbert Sykes was a victim of a terrible childhood where his stepfather, Larry, abused him physically and sexually, and then Norbert went to Vietnam on a low lottery number and became a POW where he was abused further. He developed multiple personality disorder to cope. The primary personality being "The Badger"--a costumed crimefighter hellbent on keeping the streets of Madison, Wisconsin safe from all threats, both human and supernatural. Other alt-personalities included Emily, an 8-year-old girl; Leroy, a coonhound; Gastineau Grover de Paul, a streetwise black man from Chicago; Pierre, a French serial killer; and Max Swell, an effete, gay architect.

Norbert lived in Barneveld, Wis. with Ham, a 14th Century Welsh Weather Wizard; his wife, Daisy, a veterinarian and master martial artist, and his beloved pet badger, Percy.

As a child growing up not too far from Barneveld, this was everything to me. The Badger was hilarious and violent, irrational and bizarre. And he was never more jubilant than when he could play off of Baron's other great character, the intergalactic superhero, Nexus. (Real name: Horatio Hellpop, a name only a mother could love.)

The Badger was also drawn by one of my favorite comic artists of all-time, Jeff Butler. Jeff later became one of my coworkers when I was at Madison Media Institute, and this is one of the great honors of my life. I spent countless hours mimicking his art style while I was growing up, so just to meet him was cool. He's a helluva nice guy and a truly gifted artist.

While I was in college, I traded a lot of emails with Mike Baron, asking him a lot of questions about writing. He always had good advice. He's still one of my favorite comic writers, and always will be. He's transitioned to novels as of late, and he has a Nexus novel coming out later this year.

I don't often contribute to Kickstarters, but I jumped on this one. It's already hit its goal, so now Mike is just working on stretch goals. If you're interested, please consider supporting a man whose work has always been important to me.

Thanks for reading.

--Sean

https://www.kickstarter.com/projec…/nexusnovel/nexus-a-novel

[craigfernandez]

Horatio!