[The Canadian Content]

I used to love the New Warriors. The original New Warriors. You know, the ones introduced in Thor? Anyway, when I quit comics in the mid-90s, giving up the Warriors, Night Thrasher, and Nova were some of the hardest parts.

Now, Nova's back, and the first issue was awesome. I know not everyone's into the space stuff, but this wasn't really spacey. It was a guy struggling to do the right thing, even though he knows he can never do enough, and even though he's at the point of utter exhaustion because he's simply been doing too much for too long.

The interplay between Richard Rider (Nova) and the voice in his head is a lot of fun. It serves to lighten the mood of the book, but it also allows the reader insight into what's been going on and how tough life's been on Nova lately.

Anyway, I'm not doing the book any justice. It's great, and I highly recommend it.

[OpTard]

yeah. i've been looking at this book. i was a big fan of the old school warriors. i gave it a try because 1) it had speedball, and 2) it was drawn by mark bagley. i read the book up until alex power joined the team, and felt the story, and how it was done, was an insult to power pack and to louise simonson and how she left the team in the power pack holiday special that capped of their series.

basically, i drop books that don't treat power pack right [side tangent: i currently picked up the book "loners" that marvel just put out that's spins off of the first arc of volume 2 of runaways. i'm picking it up because it has julie power in it. it's actually a pretty good book. it's also got darkhawk in it, which i know has to be a mid-90s guilty pleasure for someone. my only problem with it is that julie APPEARS to be too old in the book. my calculations say she should be about 16 now, and if i didn't have any previous knowledge i would say the girl in this book is 19 or 20. now, they haven't confirmed her age in the book yet, so it is possible she's just grown into a nice piece of jailbait. that i can accept. i've seen it in real life. such girls exist in this world. and they're not gonna reintroduce a character after all these years and make her an uggo. but if i find out she's supposed to be older, i'm dropping the book. i'm crazy like that].

anyway, onto nova. yeah, i'm interested in this book. i know in issue 3 he meets up with penance (speedballs current persona) so that should be interesting.

but i'm waiting for the trade on this one. i'll read it all at once.

[The Canadian Content]

operationretard said:

it's also got darkhawk in it, which i know has to be a mid-90s guilty pleasure for someone.

I was going through some of my more obscure books the other day and found a Darkhawk miniseries. I guess he was a guilty pleasure for me, though I have no recollection of the series or of having bought it. Oh, wait. Maybe it was a Secret Defenders series or something that had him in it. I already don't remember.

[Loki]

DH was in Secret Defenders for a bit.

His series was pretty good, for what it was. If you liked Nova's 70s run you'd like the Darkhawk run, because from what I remember it was the same basic plot set up with his family and his angst.


Nova: Annihilation was pretty good. I've read the 1st Annihilation book and if you haven't read it I strongly recommend you do.

I'm headed to the comic shop this weekend to get Nova #1. Looking forward to it.

[Loki]

My buddy picked up Nova #1 for me and I read it this morning.

Ah, Nova. It is so good to see you back.

I imagine the book will make more sense when I pick up Annihilation Book 2. Even discarding that, Nova #1 was easy enough to follow. Let's hope it doesn't go the way of the short lived Liefeld Nova series.







Holy crap - I just noticed that Annihilation is 3 books, not 2. For those keeping score, Book 2 ships early May and Book 3 in early July.

[salmonjunkie]

Liefeld drew Nova? when was this?

[Loki]

Just noticed this, Dogeaterpod. Apologies for the response delay.

My mistake. It was Erik Larsen, not Rob Liefeld. For some reason I thought I remembered Liefeld being involved in it and the ultimate reason the series ended.