Steve Rude: In returning to Nexus, I just wanted to let readers know that we were the same old team who had not lost any steam in 10 years. Mike and Steve, when you started doing Nexus again, did you guys feel like you returned to a certain technique or "feel" for storytelling? There's a lot going on in a story, although it's never confusing. PW Comics Week: Reading volume six of the Nexus Archives as well as the new issues, I notice that there’s a rhythm to the comic that is rare, certainly today. Now in 2007, Baron and Rude have new Nexus stories coming out from Rude’s own publishing company, Rude Dude Productions, which will also handle the reprints of these new comics. But in 2005, Dark Horse started publishing the Nexus Archives, a hardcover reprint series of the original Nexus comics. Nexus set a high standard for comics produced in the 1980s, although for the past decade or so it looked like Baron and Rude would never put together another issue of their beloved series. Rude’s virtuoso artwork offers action-packed stories driven by powerful, gracefully rendered characters. In Baron’s Nexus stories the characters are believable, exhibiting both a bracing existential angst and an entertaining strand of slapstick humor.
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