Essential Nova: Anyone pick it up?

[isaac a person]

Essential Nova vol. 1 came out last week.
Anyone pick up a copy?
Our shop got shorted so I didn't get mine. I checked with the shop down the street and he was suprised to have sold the 4 copies he ordered the day it came out. So it was pretty popular, eh?

Did you buy it? Like it? Discuss!

[Ravenheart]

I picked it up but haven't gotten to read it yet.I only had a few issues of the series when it was originally out so I'm looking forward to it.The one thing I never knew was that Carmine Infantino did the artwork for the last bunch of issues.Sometimes I love his stuff and sometimes I hate it.Not sure how I feel about his Nova work.I'll have to wait and see if it distracts from the story or not.

[CoreyB]

Got it, even though I have every single issue it reprints in color.

[nova64]

I picked it up and really enjoyed it. Seeing Infantino's issues in black and white were (for me) a better read than they are in color. To me, the coloring in those issues were just too dark.

Doug

[isaac a person]

So it seems like you guys were all fans of the book when it originally came out? I was introduced to Nova in the New Warriors. I remember a lot of complaints about his characterization from longtime fans in the lettercolumn. It made me curious to read the original books and I'm glad Marvel is giving me the opportunity!
Also looking forward to reading a Marv Wolfman book. The only work of his I've read is Crisis on Infinite Earths, and I know that event books with all their constraints do not always represent the best a writer has to offer.
Maybe my copy will ship this week :confused:
Gosh darn you, Diamond!

[CoreyB]

I discovered Nova through New Warriors, too. But, I've since gotten virtually all of his appearances in back-issue shopping.

[Rich L]

I discovered Nova through New Warriors, too. But, I've since gotten virtually all of his appearances in back-issue shopping.

Me too - although I avoided Erik Larsen's series that accompanied the Warriors vol 2.

Does the Essentiall have any of the FF issues that capped off the first series?

[CoreyB]

No. It's the original Nova series #1-25, Amazing Spider-Man #171 (not sure of the exact number, but it's the issue that crossed over with Nova #12) and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #3. And there's also old Marvel Handbook entries of Nova and the Sphinx at the end.

[Ravenheart]

I finished it off this morning and it was pretty good.It was nice reading the old issues I already had as well as the first time ones.Its too bad they ended it where they did.It would have been nice if they had included the FF issues since it'll be awhile until we get to them in the FF's own Essentials.One of the funniest things in the series was the one issue where Rich is worrying about being left behind in school right before he starts a battle.

[milhouse123321]

Did the series go past 25 issues? Or is this the whole original run?

[CoreyB]

Correct, the first Nova series was 25 issues.

[Expletive Deleted]

Does the Essentiall have any of the FF issues that capped off the first series?No, which is kind of a shame. It'll be years before the FF Essentials get that far.

[The Lucky One]

Just finished reading this one the other day (yeah, took a while to get to it), and I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this, but... how about that Wally West cameo in issue 19? It was right after Rich arrives at high school after battling Blackout, with a boy and a girl walking away in the background:

Boy: So I said, Barry, you're slowing down my action.
Girl: You didn't really, Wally, did you?

Hi-larious. Nice one, Marv!

-D

[drwho]

The good thing about this series when reading it is it seems real fresh. IT doesn't seem out dated plus the art fits well with the black and white format. Overall I would say a pretty impressive launch of a character and series.

[The Lucky One]

The good thing about this series when reading it is it seems real fresh. IT doesn't seem out dated

Word. Nova's references to The Gong Show are just as fresh today as they ever were! ;)

Also, kudos to Marvel for the first openly incestuous mother/son relationship in comics...

Nova: "I can go as fast as you care, or take it slow. How d'ya want it?"
Nova's Mom: "Slow and easy, dear... very slow and easy."

-D

[marshal99]

That's the thing , Richard Rider wasn't a rookie , he had his own series in the 70s , he's been around the block but when they reactivated him in new warriors in the 90s , he acted like a rookie again and got treated like one. Every hero he encountered or in some cases , re-introduced again treated him like one , only with Annilhilation did he finally get the respect he deserved.