Stylistic Influence
Both Baron and Rude pay homage to Space Ghost in their work on Nexus, including use of the battle cry "This calls for hyperspeed!" Jan, Jayce, and Blip have several uncredited cameos in the background. Rude was later hired to create a Space Ghost comic for Comico with writer Mark Evanier.
Steve Rude has cited a number of influences on his clean, distinctive style, including the Space Ghost character designs and other work by Alex Toth, and commercial illustrators of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly Andrew Loomis.
Baron's Nexus stories responded to the world he was writing in; competing merchants overwhelm media channels (and telepathy) with advertising. A great computerized library, perhaps presaging the Internet, controls the universe's memory of history. However, some of his early 1980s references have become outdated, such as the menacing Sov empire.
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