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Warren Ellis' next ongoing project, starting in August:
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/NextWave/pressconference.htm

Getting to the anticipated announcement from the event, Ellis’ next Marvel project will be Newuniversal (a working title). “They’re giving me the New Universe to play with,” Ellis revealed.

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[angelophile.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to be doing many terrible things with the old New Universe books - clean stuff, as if the books had never been published before, so I won't be beholden to any of the older work."

Ellis' new (i.e. rebooted) take on the New Univese will include a "chunk of the old stuff and a slightly smaller chunk of new stuff, just to get the best story out of it."

Ellis named Nightmask as one of the more interesting concepts of the previous New Universe incarnation.

Newuniversal will be an ongonig title, featuring all of the characters of the/his New Universe. "I wanted to write a big ensemble book," Ellis said, "and the idea that hit me as I was flipping through the [original] stuff was that it all should have been one big story. To me, the people lost sight of that when they did it."

Ellis said that it will be written at a Marvel Universe level (n terms of content), and Marvel editors said that it would most likely be rated "T+".

The stories of Newuniversal will not be self-contained, Ellis said. "It will roll along."

The series is slated to be launched at the end of the summer.

Coinciding with the release of Newuniversal, there will be collections of the original New Universe titles released.

Editor Mark Pannicia will also be editing a preceding (the month prior) "New Universe" event celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the line. This New Universe event will feature stories set in the original continuity, however, and pre-The Pitt.