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“What might be Marvel’s best event yet”

Name a single Bendis-written story, from anything he’s written, that had a good ending.

“Name a single Bendis-written story, from anything he’s written, that had a good ending.”

Daredevil. But yes, he is not good with events.

“small and personal tragedy that is sure to surprise new readers and longtime fans alike,”

It was pretty much what I was expecting, since they announced someone was going to die and that was the most logical choice. I’m still sad about it. I was hoping I was wrong.

I thought it was a good start, except for Tony’s point of view, which I’m not buying at all. He jumps directly to Minority Report fears, despite nobody ever suggesting that they arrest people for crimes they haven’t committed. What would he have done if the Guardians of the Galaxy had sent him a message warning him that Thanos was going to show up at a specific place at a specific time? Just not go? How is that any different from learning about it from a prophecy?

They aren’t paying these people are they? That seems like a terrible idea that would open a huge can of worms for Marvel. Such a bad idea.

Sarah Jean Maefs and Kevin Spooner look a lot alike in the pictures above.

Considering that the whole “Disney Princess” merchandise juggernaut began when a Disney exec saw girls in their homemade costumes and realized there was money to be made, how long before these people get slapped with C&Ds and Disney starts its own Marvel costume line?

This reminds me of how much I used to love the old Sandman Mystery Theatre covers from the 90’s. Or that old Ray ad from back in the day that looked like a bad FOX pilot waiting to happen.

Great idea.

Ms Marvel and Spider-Gwen FTW

I like that not every one of these is perfect, showing you don’t have to have a fortune or body builder body to have fun cosplaying. Cosplayers make cons a lot better with their presence and this feels like a nice celebration of that.

Amazing that it took them this long to pursue this idea. On the other hand, I’ve seen better costumes. I wonder how they came to select these particular photos.

A fun idea, though some of the costumes *do* look a bit on the droopy side. And as for a couple of the poses, would someone please get Doc Strange those two drinks he’s ordering.

Now Captain Marvel on the other hand — she wears her uniform with the right attitude!

They didn’t need to reboot Nova. Rich Rider still had a lot of potential stories to tell. And I am curious how they will explain Star Lords return but not Rich Rider Nova’s. If the Nova force is back it should mean he is as well based on how they have historically explained it’s working.

And it annoys me on some level that they are making the charcter match an animated show when we know that comic sales do not correlate to book sales. I plan to give this the first cohple if issues before I judge it so maybe the will surprise me or enjoy it.

I meant comic book to tv/ movies.

Actually, both the Batman TV show in the 60′s and the Tim Burton movie in 1989 upped sales on the Batman comic by quite a lot.

Rich Rider is/was my favorite character so I’m kind of bummed at this series. I would be willing to wait until the Bendis/Loeb “era” of cosmic is over before they revive RR because tbh they don’t have the chops to do it right. see Vision, Wasp and Cable

A hero reboot – the old song and dance;
to be fair, though, I will give it a chance.

The cover would be even better if he was saying, “Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!”.

While they didn’t need to put/ keep Rich Rider on ice just to introduce a character with a somewhat wider visibility (he is on a animated kids show), the fact that Loeb says that he’s not really “writing for an all-ages audience” but instead for “the Marvel audience” brings a certain phrase to mind – “Epic fail”.

It’s simply weird to me how a company in the business of making money through selling stories of their characters doesn’t use, perhaps even avoids, solid avenues to grow their business prospects.

Beautiful cover by Marcos Martin btw.

At 3.99$ per issue they can keep it (especially since Marvel started doubleshipping his books). Nothing in what Loeb is saying makes this Sam (never heard of him) different from Rich Rider. Except he’s it seems in an animated show….
…it really helped Static Shock also to be the star on an aimated series for years…..
This cover is really gorgeous, true. But with a scripter like Loeb , Im sure nothing is gonna surprise me, and seeing the price of the entrance ticket, I’m out.

Does Marvel really own Nova? Given that he was created by Marv Wolfman and Len Wein and first appeared in their fanzine back in 1966, isn’t he actually theirs? I wonder how they feel about Jeph Loeb coming in and co-opting a character with that length of history and throwing someone else in the suit with the same name as his late son? Is this some kind of grief therapy for Loeb gone overboard?

You had me until “Ed McGuinness”. Never liked his art.

Yes — why is this book $3.99?

For *Nova*?

Really?

If Loeb wasn’t involved and it was Rich Rider in the helmet, I’d be all over this, $4 price tagged be hanged.

So Nova has a Nova Corps like Green Lantern has the Green Lantern Corp. So since Sam is a young kid taking up the mantle from the veteran we all know & love, does that make him Kyle Rayner v2.0?

I personally like Kyle Rayner. He my GL and it was my first real DC book. The situation is similar to that so that is why I’m willing to give this a couple of issues to wow me

You got me with Ed McGuinness. I’d just about buy the phone book if he drew it. This will be the only Marvel book I’ll be buying for the foreseeable future as long as EMC is involved that is.