Velveteen Dream

Velveteen Dream burst onto the page in 2018, a product of the Modern Age's love affair with sports entertainment storytelling, debuting in WWE: NXT Takeover - Redemption #1 courtesy of writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Rodrigo Lorenzo for Boom! Studios. This NXT-rooted character moves through some genuinely electric company — sharing pages with the likes of Aleister Black, Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, and even the legendary Dusty Rhodes — which tells you everything about the high-stakes world these comics inhabit. Though the catalog run is compact, spanning a handful of appearances across the NXT Takeover titles through 2019, Velveteen Dream lands in issues that capture a particularly vibrant chapter of WWE comics history. For collectors drawn to the intersection of wrestling culture and comics craft, this is a character with real personality baked into a short but memorable run.