User blog comment:Jamie/Episode 10 - Cancelled Comics Cavalcade/@comment-166-20140611022347/@comment-1618941-20140611230320

The whole New Universe line.

I get why Kickers Inc., Spitfire and the Troubleshooters, and Merc. were all cancelled with with poor sales being a primary factor, but Psi Force and D.P.7 offered up some great reading with paranormal people dealing with a mostly normal world. Starbrand and Justice trod similar ground using solo protagonists... and then it all went up in smoke. One year in and half of the New Universe titles were axed. The handful of surviving titles then gradually fizzled and died.

New Universe was a bold step for its time, from a publisher accustomed to selling brightly coloured heroes in skin tight bodysuits. There were no unstable molecules, or long capes for these characters, and the garish costumes of popular titles were absent on a gallery of characters more likely to wade into conflict wearing jeans and tee-shirts.

I think the New Universe was just a bit before its time. Had it been released in the early '90s, when grunge had pushed aside the big hair and pastel colours of the '80s, it might have faired a little better.