"Over the last few years, with all the marketing ploys and gimmicks, it seems we've forgotten about the most important person in the market -- the fan," said Baron. "From here on out, I'm taking my direction from Haruka and the other hundreds of thousands of Nexus fans. Whatever they want, I'm doing it!"
Nexus Meets Madman, a thirty-two page one-shot, will ship to stores May xx, 1996. Two months later, a new four-issue Nexus miniseries, titled Executioner's Song, will debut.
"Nexus is one of the reasons I'm in this business," stated Allred. "I'm glad Haruka talked these guys into letting Madman into their world!"
"Michael [Allred] and I have been pals for some time, so this is really a natural," said Rude. "The heart and soul he puts into every issue of Madman is the same kind of energy Baron and I put into Nexus. The crossing over of those energies will be nothing short of phenomenal."
There is no word as to whether Haruka's other requests -- that Nexus meet Zippy the Pinhead and Milk & Cheese -- will be answered in a similar fashion.
Mike Baron and Steve Rude have been producing Nexus since 1981, making this year its fifteenth year of publishing. Michael Allred's Madman is part of the Legend line of comics.