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.