Dear Marvel: STOP KICKING MY PUPPIES

[serinde]

Finally read Annihiliation:Nova #1.

Story itself:
Fine, whatever. I don't know anything about Annihilus, so if he has an all-conquering bug armada in his back pocket, I don't have a problem with it. (Especially if it got Nova out of the meat grinder they turned the New Warriors into, starting with that abortion perpetrated by Skottie Whatsisfuck and brought to anti-term to serve as the spawn point for Civil War.) They seem to be writing Nova himself reasonably well.

Backstory:
Now, I know the Nova Corps was always sort of an off-screen GLC ripoff, but have they ever managed to make the serial number almost legible here. Even down to "How 'bout that boy from Earth, what a hothead, ho ho ho!".

Art:
KILL KILL KILL I EAT YOUR SKULL FOR BREAKFAST.
That looks nothing, and I do mean nothing, like Richie. He doesn't have orange-brown hair. He doesn't have blue eyes. He doesn't look like a neurasthenic git--even when he was the prototypical 98-lb. weakling at the start of his first solo series, he didn't.
Also, I'm full of dislike for the new!shiny! Nova-Armor. The only thing you can say for it is that the artist draws the helmet far, far better than he does Rich's face.

I don't know if I'm going to buy the rest. I think I'll have to. But I almost couldn't force myself to read the pages where Rich had his helmet off.

Snarl.

(I'm going to have to get a good Nova icon before the only piccies I can find are this new shite.)

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Y'see, this is why I boycott Abnett & Lanning. Even when individual pages are pretty good, I can't stand their big picture. And remember, the artist may be the final reason for the crappy armor, but A&L are the ones who told the artist to make the armor.

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

If Lanning stuck with inking, the world would be just fine.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of these guys before. Is there something else I should despise them for?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

They actually drove me off Legion of Super-Heroes, when I'd managed to weather the Bierbaums. And they murdered the real Death's Head, replacing him with Minion (who wasn't SO bad, but the book's quality went downhill fast).