The New Warriors was one of those rare post-silver-age comic series that really brought something new to the table. It started as an optimistic, change-the-world early nineties youth version of grown-up superheroics, developed into that rare serial that did grunge-era angst right--90210 with superpowers, in a sense--and then degenerated into something that did all right when it could pull off the flirty teen soap opera stuff and did poorly when it tried to be all x-treme. Then Fabian Nicieza left and it went to shit, and the Warriors had a post-career as a reality show, a punchline, and then the accidental cause of an accident that killed a busload of school kids and kicked off the Marvel "Civil War." It's not a legacy fitting of this pretty great comic, and this rating judges them at their best. ( )