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39-416: Fabian Nicieza ( / n iː s i ˈ ɛ s ə / ; December 31, 1961) is an Argentine-American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men , X-Force , New Warriors , Nomad , Cable , Deadpool and Thunderbolts , for all of which he helped create numerous characters, among them Deadpool , Domino , Shatterstar , and Silhouette . Nicieza

78-489: A crossover, a common practice in comic books to boost sales; Spider-Man (in issue # 1) and Captain America (in issue # 8). The character NFL SuperPro has not been seen since the demise of the series. Writer Robert Kirkman reportedly wanted to use SuperPro in an issue of Marvel Team-Up but could not, due to copyright concerns. The closest he came was Marvel Team-Up #9, in which the character Stilt-Man says, "I beat up

117-473: A dispute with then editor-in-chief Bob Harras over the future direction of his plotlines on X-Force , Nicieza was fired from the X-titles, leaving X-Force with No. 43 and X-Men with No. 45. He later remarked, "I never wanted to leave [ X-Force ], and never felt my firing was justified. ... I don't recall being given a reason [for being fired], and I also don't recall asking for one. ... Considering it

156-518: A few decades later, large waves of immigrants left the country after its economic crash in 2001 and economic decline in 2014. As a result, according to "Latinx Immigrants" from the International and Cultural Psychology book series, as of 2018 there were over a million Argentines living abroad. Approximately 60% of Argentines now living in the United States arrived after 1990. This influx in immigrants

195-562: A four-issue mini-series beginning in January, 2024. In non-comics works, Nicieza co-scripted the direct-to-DVD animated feature Hot Wheels World Race , and the animated DVD feature The Black Belt Club , based on the Scholastic book series. In 2021, Nicieza created and executive produced the animated streaming series Superhero Kindergarten , based on the comic book series of the same name by Stan Lee . In 2021, Nicieza's first non-comic book

234-448: A guy called SuperPro last week. Silliest looking guy...". NFL SuperPro has been called one of the worst comics in recent Marvel Comics history, becoming a cult object. Often cited in this claim are issues with the plot and the characters. For example, in the first issue a group of thieves incinerate valuable NFL merchandise but it is never explained why they burn it instead of selling it off. Writer Fabian Nicieza has admitted he wrote

273-475: A near-invincible superhero. Grayfield puts on the superfan's football uniform and brings the villains to justice, dedicating his life to fighting crime and dubbing himself "SuperPro". The first issue starring NFL SuperPro was " NFL SuperPro Special Edition # 1 ", cover-dated March 1991. The series began with issue " NFL SuperPro # 1 " (cover-date October 1991) and ended with " NFL SuperPro # 12 " (cover-date September 1992). On two occasions, NFL SuperPro featured

312-445: A story centering on Phil Grayfield, once an aspiring football player. His career ended when he saved a child from falling and suffered a horrific knee injury. He became a sports reporter and interviewed an eccentric football superfan , who also happened to be a scientist. This scientist designed a new, almost indestructible football uniform, which has to be molded on an individual basis and costs five million dollars to construct — so it

351-538: A three-issue arc in Action Comics #841–843 (July–Sept. 2006), co-written with Kurt Busiek. Nicieza also wrote JSA Classified #28 (September 2007). He is also one of the co-writers for The 99 , an "Islamic culture-based comic book" with Kuwaiti Naif Al-Mutawa, Other late-2000s DC work includes Nightwing and Robin , both titles being cancelled in connection with " Batman R.I.P. " and Nicieza then wrote an Azrael : Death's Dark Knight mini-series, part of

390-414: Is worth a fortune. Suddenly interrupting the interview, thieves raid the superfan's house, overwhelm the two of them, steal a van load of NFL merchandise (but not the uniform), and torch the building. Grayfield, who is tied up and helpless, knocks over experimental chemicals, which — in combination with the fire and ultra-rare football souvenirs going up in flames — do not incinerate him, but turn him into

429-498: The New Thunderbolts series with Nicieza again as writer. Nicieza also worked on several limited series at Marvel and DC around the turn of the century. At Marvel he wrote Citizen V (2001), Citizen V and the V Battalion: Everlasting (2002) , X-Men Forever (2001), and X-Force vol. 2, as well as the short-lived ongoing series Hawkeye (2003); while at DC, he wrote the six-issue miniseries Supermen of America (1999) and

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468-534: The ABC television network before graduating in 1983 with a degree in advertising and public relations . His brother is Mariano Nicieza, also a comic book writer and editor. Until 1985, Nicieza worked for the Berkley Publishing Group , starting in the production department and becoming a managing editor. In 1985, Nicieza joined the staff at Marvel Comics , initially as a manufacturing assistant, later moving to

507-693: The Battle for the Cowl storyline which dealt with the "Batman R.I.P." aftermath. After Death's Dark Knight concluded, Nicieza wrote the new Azrael ongoing series from issue #1–13 (December 2009 – December 2010). Nicieza began writing the DC series Red Robin from issues #13-26, the final issue (Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2011). DC announced Nicieza would be writing Legion Lost , a spinoff of Legion of Superheroes as part of DC's line wide relaunch initiative in September 2011. Nicieza wrote

546-554: The Elseworlds project JLA: Created Equal (2000), as well as some issues of the children's comic Justice League Adventures . In 2003 Nicieza co-created, with artist Stefano Raffaele , the horror miniseries The Blackburne Covenant , published by Dark Horse Comics . That same year he returned to two of his old characters with the Marvel series Cable and Deadpool , of which he wrote all 50 issues. In 2006, Nicieza returned to DC with

585-569: The Justice League as the JLA . He also worked for Twist and Shout Comics writing and pencilling back-up stories in X-Flies Special #1 and Dirtbag #7. Later in 1996 Nicieza joined Acclaim Comics as senior vice-president and editor-in-chief. He was charged with revamping the companies intellectual properties which had previously formed Valiant Comics ' Valiant Universe . Nicieza as editor oversaw

624-535: The 1940s. In 1991, Nicieza joined with artist Rob Liefeld in co-plotting and writing the final three issues of the New Mutants . In those issues Liefeld and Nicieza created the characters Deadpool and Shatterstar as well as the super team, X-Force . Liefeld and Nicieza then produced an ongoing X-Force title. Nicieza initially worked on the title as scripter. After the departure of Liefeld in No. 12, Nicieza became

663-535: The 1990 U.S. Census recorded that New York City had 17,363 Argentine Americans and Los Angeles , 15,115. Immigration to New York City was popular because of the existing Argentine and Italian communities, as many Argentines are of Italian origin. With the goal of helping its Argentine population, the government of the city created several organizations such as the Argentine-American Chamber of Commerce, which that established relations between Argentina and

702-585: The Marvel staff and began freelance writing for the company. Nicieza's projects in this period included the first four issues of National Football League -approved superhero NFL SuperPro (Oct. 1991 – Feb. 1992), and, with penciler Kevin Maguire , the four-issue miniseries Adventures of Captain America (also known by its cover-logo treatment, The Adventures of Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty ) (Sept. 1991 – Jan. 1992), an origin-story retelling set in

741-761: The New York area. According to data from the Pew Research Center, in 2017 about 29% of Argentine Americans resided in Florida. Meanwhile, 18% lived in California and 10% in New York. The profile of the Argentine American population is generally similar to the overall U.S. population. Among the key differences, however, is educational attainment . Argentine Americans exhibit a rate of 39.5% of holders of bachelor's, graduate, or professional degrees, contrasted with 27.5% of

780-511: The United States. The 1990 U.S. Census recorded 92,563 Argentines, evidencing that nearly half of the Argentine immigrants arrived in the last two decades alone. After the 1990s, Southern California and Florida became leading destinations for new immigrants from Argentina. According to the 2010 Census, out of the over 200,000 Argentine Americans recorded, it is estimated that Los Angeles and Miami have over 50,000 Argentine Americans each, followed by

819-403: The assignment for two reasons. First, I saw a lot of potential in these characters that had already been deemed useless. And secondly, I really wanted to write a monthly book." Collaborating with pencilers Mark Bagley and later Darick Robertson , primarily, Nicieza went on to write the title for most of its first 53 issues (July 1990 – November 1994). Years later, Nicieza said that he considers

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858-591: The final issue. This led to fill-in work on titles such as Classic X-Men , for which he provided backup stories, and in the Marvel Annuals ' 1989 summer crossover " Atlantis Attacks ". After Tom DeFalco , then Marvel's editor-in-chief, created the superhero team the New Warriors , using existing characters, in Thor No. 412 (Dec. 1989), he selected Nicieza to write the spin-off series. Nicieza recalled "I took

897-485: The first Cable miniseries as well as the first few issues of the character's subsequent ongoing series . He also wrote the first solo Deadpool series, Deadpool: the Circle Chase in 1993. These series expanded the characters' personalities and established key background information for both characters, all things which were later used by other writers on those characters' subsequent ongoing books. However, in 1995, in

936-445: The first 24 issues of its 25-issue run. Also in 1999, Nicieza began writing Thunderbolts with #34. He continued to write the book (initially with old partner Mark Bagley on art, later with Patrick Zircher and Chris Batista ) up until No. 75 when the title was revamped . The revamp was unsuccessful, and in 2004 the original version of the team was resurrected, initially in an Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries, then later in

975-430: The first 25 issues of New Warriors to be the best work of his career. Also in 1990 Nicieza began short runs on comics such as Alpha Flight (#87–101), Avengers (#317–325) and Avengers Spotlight , as well as the miniseries Nomad , which in turn led him to write the ongoing series Nomad vol. 2 in 1992. That year, Nicieza became editor of Marvel's children's imprint, Star Comics . Shortly afterward, he left

1014-503: The first Argentines who arrived in the United States did so during the 1950s and 1960s, seeking better economic conditions. A wave of Argentine immigrants came to Las Vegas , Nevada in the 1950s. Most these arrivals had achieved higher education in Argentina. For example, many were scientists. However, immigrants in the late 1970s arrived fleeing the political state sponsored terrorism of the dictatorship. They numbered 44,803 people. Then,

1053-536: The first six issues before leaving the title. In 2016, for the comics company Shatner Singularity, he adapted a Stan Lee poem into the graphic novel Stan Lee's 'God Woke' . That work won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards ' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award. In 2023, it was announced that Nicieza would be returning to the X-Men line of books to write the fifth volume of Cable , as

1092-809: The highest percentages of Argentine immigrants are: Argentine Americans have been notable in contemporary American lifestyle in cultural and intellectual aspects. Among the outstanding people are actresses Alexis Bledel , Julie Gonzalo , Olivia Hussey and Anya Taylor-Joy , actor Lorenzo Lamas , journalist Andrés Oppenheimer , sportscaster Andrés Cantor , musicians Lalo Schifrin and Kevin Johansen , businessmen Jim Farley and Jorge M. Pérez , writer Fabian Nicieza and athletes Benjamin Cremaschi , Marcelo Balboa , Diana Taurasi , Martin Gramatica , Pablo Mastroeni and Claudio Reyna . NFL SuperPro Nicieza wrote

1131-479: The lines' cancellation, Nicieza left Acclaim in 1999. Returning to freelance work, Marvel and the X-Men, Nicieza co-wrote the Magneto Wars crossover through Uncanny X-Men #366–367 and X-Men vol. 2, #86–87, with artist Alan Davis in 1999. This led to the successive Magneto limited series Magneto Rex (1999) and Magneto: Dark Seduction (2000), as well as an ongoing Gambit (1999) series which he wrote for

1170-558: The majority of the population of Argentina is primarily of Italian and Spanish ancestry (see demographics of Argentina ) with significant French , German , mulatto , mestizo , Slavic , and Semitic ( Jewish and Arab ) components. Minority have Amerindian ancestors (primarily Mapuche , Qulla , Wichí , and Toba ), Chinese ancestors, Indian / Indo-Caribbean ancestors, and other European and Asian ancestors. Only data for immigrant Argentine Americans are available. The twenty U.S. communities of 500 or more people which have

1209-459: The new version, dubbed "VH2", which re-imagined characters such as Solar , X-O Manowar , and Ninjak . Nicieza himself wrote the Turok title as well as a new series, Troublemakers . Turok met with success as a video game adaptation, and Nicieza was promoted to president and publisher of Acclaim Comics in 1997. He also wrote a Turok novella during this period. However, after staff cuts and most of

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1248-468: The overall U.S. population. The difference is more marked among women: 40.2% for Argentine American females, and 26.7% for all U.S. females. Another major difference is that 69.1% of Argentine Americans are immigrants, which contrasts sharply with 12.6% of the overall U.S. population. The 10 states with the largest population of Argentines (Source: 2010 Census): The 10 cities with the largest population of Argentines (Source: 2010 Census): The ancestry of

1287-446: The promotions department as an advertising manager. During this period he began to take his first freelance work for Marvel, writing short articles for Marvel's promotional magazine Marvel Age . Nicieza's first published comics story came with Psi-Force No. 9 (July 1987), a title in Marvel's short-lived New Universe imprint. This led to his becoming that title's regular writer from #16 (Feb. 1988) until #32 (June 1989),

1326-432: The story to gain free NFL tickets. He stated that he still receives flak for the comic. Nicieza left SuperPro after four issues, and was replaced with Buzz Dixon ; one of Dixon's issues, which featured Hopi villains who used kachina -themed costumes and weapons, drew substantial complaints from Hopi representatives, leading Marvel to officially recall the comic. Dixon left Superpro after three issues. In 2005,

1365-530: The title's full writer, which he remained until 1995. By the end of 1992, Nicieza became regular scripter for X-Men vol. 2, beginning with No. 12 (Sept. 1992), working primarily with penciler Andy Kubert throughout his run. For the next three years, Nicieza was among the writers and editors of one of Marvel's most popular superhero franchises during a time of such popular, multi-series crossover story arcs as " X-Cutioner's Song ", " Phalanx Covenant " and " Age of Apocalypse ". During this period Nicieza wrote

1404-503: Was a Top 10 selling title at the time, I felt it was a wholly unjustified decision." After 1995, Nicieza wrote short runs of Captain Marvel (vol. 2, 1995), Spider-Man : The Final Adventure (1995) and stories for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers before leaving the company in 1996. That year Nicieza did his first work for rival publisher DC Comics , co-writing Justice League : Midsummer Nightmare with Mark Waid which relaunched

1443-595: Was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina, the son of Omar and Irma Riguetti Nicieza. He was four years old when his family moved to the United States. Growing up in New Jersey , Nicieza learned to read and write from comic books. He lived first in Sayreville, New Jersey and moved to Old Bridge Township , where he attended Madison Central High School , from which he graduated in 1979. He studied at Rutgers University , interning at

1482-414: Was especially dramatic between the years 2000 and 2005, with many hoping to escape financial loss in their home country. This new immigrant group had an educational level lower than earlier immigrants. The majority of Argentine immigrants headed to metropolitan areas, especially New York City , where 20 percent of them lived in the 1970s. In the 1980s, that percentage increased to just over 23 percent, and

1521-584: Was released: Suburban Dicks , a satirical crime novel set in the New Jersey suburbs. A second book with the same characters, The Self-Made Widow , was published in 2022. Argentine Americans Argentine Americans ( Spanish : argentino-estadounidenses ) are Americans whose full or partial origin hails from Argentina . Argentine immigration increased after the 1976 Argentine coup d'état , and many took up residence in states such as California , Florida , and New York . In any case, it seems that

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