View Full Version : Cover Preview of Nova #5
CMBMOOL
05-11-2007, 12:10 PM
Here's a preview Cover to Nova issue #5, that would make you go :eek: .
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=10531
Expletive Deleted
05-11-2007, 12:11 PM
So . . . I guess rebuilding the Corps is part of CONQUEST.
Cool.
Whoa. Maybe Rich is giving up some of the Nova force sooner than we thought?
CMBMOOL
05-11-2007, 12:12 PM
So . . . I guess rebuilding the Corps is part of CONQUEST.
Cool.
Either that or this issue is taken place within the past and talks about previous Corps members, like the current Iron Fist series is doing. :(
Baltho08
05-11-2007, 12:23 PM
http://images.comicbookresources.com/previews/marvelcomics/covers/nova05.jpg
Isn't Nova #5 an Annihilation: Conquest tie-in? Could it have something to do with that? If the villain is Kang, for example, it could be a Nova from another timeline/era.
Peace.
1WEBHEAD
05-11-2007, 12:30 PM
I'm bewildered and flabbergasted by it's awesomeness.
Nova is rocketing up my top 5 Marvel comicbook list with no signs of slowing down. :cool:
The Deadpool
05-11-2007, 12:33 PM
Going by issue 2's cover and its near complete lack of connection to the actual story, I'm guessing Richard gets a new Kree girlfriend...
Hopefully this won't be a repeat of what happened to Quasar in the first Annihilation.
Going by issue 2's cover and its near complete lack of connection to the actual story, I'm guessing Richard gets a new Kree girlfriend...
Heh. Good point. The covers are excellent, but not exactly to be taken at face value.
CMBMOOL
05-11-2007, 12:47 PM
Going by issue 2's cover and its near complete lack of connection to the actual story, I'm guessing Richard gets a new Kree girlfriend...
What about Gamora, the "deadlist" woman in the universe.
The girl Rich hooked up with during the First Annihilation, now that was something. :D
What about Gamora, the "deadlist" woman in the universe.
The girl Rich hooked up with during the First Annihilation, now that was something. :D
Gamora is suppossed to have green skin and black hair though. With the blue skin and white hair, it definately seems like a Kree.
That said, I do think Gamora and some of his previous Annihilation allies might be a good starting place if he wants to start distributing some of his power. Some can't be completely trusted (like Super Skrull or Ronan), but there are certainly a few who have already established themselves as trustworthy enough heroes.
Most already have powers though, so it would probably be redundent.
streator
05-11-2007, 01:01 PM
hmm, looks alright.
CMBMOOL
05-11-2007, 01:01 PM
Gamora is suppossed to have green skin and black hair though. With the blue skin and white hair, it definately seems like a Kree.
Didn't Namorita had White Hair and Blue skin before she died ? :confused:
Expletive Deleted
05-11-2007, 01:05 PM
Didn't Namorita had White Hair and Blue skin before she died?Yep.
I'm hoping it's not her, though.
EDIT: Although I do like Baltho's idea. An alternate universe where something happened to Rich and Nita became Nova . . . that could be interesting. It'd be a bit too close to "Green Lantern: Ring of Fire," but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Didn't Namorita had White Hair and Blue skin before she died ? :confused:
Yeah. And she certainly has history with Nova. I suppose she's a possibility, desptie the fact that she's dead (cause really, that doesn't mean a whole lot in this day and age).
Given that Namorita has shown a tendecy of getting blown up, I think she'd make a perfect candidate for the Corps.
CMBMOOL
05-11-2007, 01:22 PM
Yeah. And she certainly has history with Nova. I suppose she's a possibility, desptie the fact that she's dead (cause really, that doesn't mean a whole lot in this day and age).
Given that Namorita has shown a tendecy of getting blown up, I think she'd make a perfect candidate for the Corps.
Or Nova could resurrect her from the grave like Ion tried to do with his mother ? :(
The Deadpool
05-11-2007, 01:25 PM
The problem is that he leaves Earth early in issue 4 (according to solicits). By issue 5 he's deep space dealing with Conquest. Bad time to be reviving a character on Earth.
I call misdirection...
Nevets F
05-11-2007, 01:45 PM
Nova: The Human Rockette!
Love it.
Wow ... he's either rebuilding the Nova Corps, or has been incapciated during Conquest and someone else is taking over.
Hmm ...:cool:
Atom_basher
05-11-2007, 02:54 PM
Nova: The Human Rockette!
Love it.
that made me lol
aniscape
05-11-2007, 03:06 PM
Phyla Vell realizes she is a blue Kree at the same time Nova is killed by Diamondhead (cause Marvel wants to prove just how powerfull he really is) and Nova's helmet happens to fly away and chooses Phyla for the new Nova hence she takes over the Nova title and now she will not only have to deal with the legacy of Captain Marvel, Quasar but also Nova!
Can she handle this and face the fact that Moondragon is really a man?!
comicfoil
05-11-2007, 03:26 PM
Namorita was blue with blond hair I think at the time of her death, so as much as I hate her death and would like to se eher return - I don't think this is her. Nebula was my first guess but she was bald last recall and before that black hair I believe. So anonymous Kree female seems to make the most sense.
I was kinda hoping to see Rich blow off rebuilding the corps for quite some time though. I like him super-charged and running around the galaxy with the occassional stopover on Earth. A new Nova Corps doesn't interest me at all as they've done nothing special with the concept since first introducing it waaaayyyy back in Fantastic Four. And DC's GLCorps has pretty much always bored me as well. Galaxy-spanning police forces just don't do it for me. Unless you are counting the Legion of Super-Heroes... they had a pretty damn good run from conception til Zero Hour.
Namorita was blue with blond hair I think at the time of her death, so as much as I hate her death and would like to se eher return - I don't think this is her. Nebula was my first guess but she was bald last recall and before that black hair I believe. So anonymous Kree female seems to make the most sense.
I was kinda hoping to see Rich blow off rebuilding the corps for quite some time though. I like him super-charged and running around the galaxy with the occassional stopover on Earth. A new Nova Corps doesn't interest me at all as they've done nothing special with the concept since first introducing it waaaayyyy back in Fantastic Four. And DC's GLCorps has pretty much always bored me as well. Galaxy-spanning police forces just don't do it for me. Unless you are counting the Legion of Super-Heroes... they had a pretty damn good run from conception til Zero Hour.
Though an uber powerful Nova is kind of a fun idea in a lot of ways, ya gotta remember that it's suppossed to be driving him insane. So he can only have it for so long.
I do like the idea of Nova being upgraded from what he was. But that can still happen while giving up the bulk of the Nova force and returning the Corps. No one says he has to divy it up evenly right?
Somebody
05-11-2007, 04:09 PM
Well, how many Novas are there in a fully-fledged Corps? A few thousand, yes? Judging from the costume (and common sense), Novette's getting a standard-sized piece of the Nova Force rather than half Rich's power. Which means it'll be a while before Rich's power level starts to go down appreciably.
And WTF is with the "sex change" headline on the CBR main page? C'mon News Team...
Baltho08
05-11-2007, 05:03 PM
Though an uber powerful Nova is kind of a fun idea in a lot of ways, ya gotta remember that it's suppossed to be driving him insane. So he can only have it for so long.
I do like the idea of Nova being upgraded from what he was. But that can still happen while giving up the bulk of the Nova force and returning the Corps. No one says he has to divy it up evenly right?
Meh. If he gives up his powers, I'm sure he'll become the same old boring character that got him cancelled however many times in the past. His upgrade is pretty much what made him interesting again.
Peace.
Meh. If he gives up his powers, I'm sure he'll become the same old boring character that got him cancelled however many times in the past. His upgrade is pretty much what made him interesting again.
Peace.
Truthfully, if his power levels are the only thing that are making him interesting then he probably doesn't deserve a series.
Baltho08
05-11-2007, 05:17 PM
You're probably right, but the fact still remains that Nova can now participate in things that matter BECAUSE of his power level. Case in point: Could the old Nova have beaten Annihilus?
Peace.
Expletive Deleted
05-11-2007, 05:28 PM
Namorita was blue with blond hair I think at the time of her death ...http://images.comicbookresources.com/previews/marvelcomics/civilwar/01/6.jpg
I still like the "alternate reality where Nita became Nova" idea, myself.
Jellobay
05-11-2007, 05:40 PM
[QUOTE=Expletive Deleted;4808516
I still like the "alternate reality where Nita became Nova" idea, myself.[/QUOTE]
I kind of hope it is Nita too.
Nita - Nova - Nita - Nova :)
40yearoldnovafan
05-11-2007, 05:57 PM
Come on people, you've seen the writing on the wall. One of Nova's main allies is Ronan. Nova was seen helping the Kree in issue #1. With Conquest, Rich knows the Kree, being a major alien empire, needs a protector in his absence. I am happy for this.
I would have no problem with a handful of Novas. That would still allow Rich to contain most of the Nova force. I would love to see the small Nova Corps team up on major threats in Nova's annuals (if Marvel grants him one). I have always wanted to see what an attractive Nova female would look like.
The only other person it may be is the albino alien who was with Rich in the first issue of Annihilation. I believe her name was Keiko.
It's possible that the World Mind gave a Kree some Nova Force while Rich was out cold.
Jimmy
Yeah, as long as Rich is the Nova Prime, so to speak, I'm good with it. And I hope this is a new character. More for the writers to play with.
40yearoldnovafan
05-11-2007, 06:49 PM
The Nova Corp Members were supposed to be powerful. Their bodies were built to survive the rigors of space. But these invulnerable creatures always proved to be more vulnerable than me. Could this be because the Worldmind gave the power to far too many Nova's, which diluted their powers? I hope Rich mentions this in the series.
Jimmy
Cthulhudrew
05-11-2007, 08:15 PM
The Nova Corp Members were supposed to be powerful. Their bodies were built to survive the rigors of space. But these invulnerable creatures always proved to be more vulnerable than me.
Wow! You can survive being blasted by alien spaceships and anti-matter universe bugs? Awesome!
Tim OSullivan
05-11-2007, 08:27 PM
Who's doing the covers? Chen?
40yearoldnovafan
05-11-2007, 09:54 PM
Wow! You can survive being blasted by alien spaceships and anti-matter universe bugs? Awesome!
Cute! I'm just stating that as a long time reader of Nova, I have found that the Nova Corp members have not been as powerful as advertised. The members always seem to lose every battle they are in, and easily. And they always die.
I would love to see the untold tales of the Nova Corps because I know they have won many battles. As shown in Nova #1, many alien races count on them. But we fans always see them lose and Xandar getting blown up. I was happy when Nova #1 showed the Corp actually did good for many peoples.
It's just that when we see them, a wet noodle, which I can survive, can take them out.
Jimmy
isaaklown
05-11-2007, 10:55 PM
What about this...
It's been pointed out by the writer ever since Richard got the full force that he can not handle it all... "he's just one man". So what if Conquest starts up... he finally gets it through his thick skull that he needs help and that's when he "just so happens" across a tough, but spunky girl on a distant planet and both Richard and the Worldmind decide she would be a perfect candidate to start a new Nova Corps.
The way I came to this thought is that if you look at her outfit... it's not Nova's "SuperNova" outfit. It's the one with three stars, which means highest ranking officer (I believe). So she would be pretty powerful... but not as powerful or high ranking as Richard.
kidpernicious
05-11-2007, 11:18 PM
Phyla Vell realizes she is a blue Kree at the same time Nova is killed by Diamondhead (cause Marvel wants to prove just how powerfull he really is) and Nova's helmet happens to fly away and chooses Phyla for the new Nova hence she takes over the Nova title and now she will not only have to deal with the legacy of Captain Marvel, Quasar but also Nova!
And then Galactus makes her his newest Herald, and she also gets a Green Lantern ring somehow.
As for the cover, here's my theory: I say it's a vampire Frankie Raye come back from beyond the veil of death to reclaim her Nova codename in a very roundabout way. So she's, like, pale... or something. I got nothin.
Expletive Deleted
05-11-2007, 11:57 PM
Who's doing the covers? Chen?Nope, Granov.
Truthfully, if his power levels are the only thing that are making him interesting then he probably doesn't deserve a series.
Well, it's not the power levels that have revitalised Nova so much as what they've meant for the character.
christosgage
05-12-2007, 07:01 AM
Hopefully this won't be a repeat of what happened to Quasar in the first Annihilation.
Okay, I can't keep it a secret any longer. All of Marvel's cosmic characters will be replaced by hot lesbians. Leading into "Annihilation III: Dear Penthouse Forum..."
My pre-order's already in!
:D
Okay, I can't keep it a secret any longer. All of Marvel's cosmic characters will be replaced by hot lesbians. Leading into "Annihilation III: Dear Penthouse Forum..."
My pre-order's already in!
:D
I actually wanted to make that exact joke, but steared clear because some sort of got touchy at references of Phylea as a space lesbian. The most I had to do was make the opening and see if someone would take it.
Glad you said it and not me. You I think can get away with it.
firestarfan
05-12-2007, 01:22 PM
My guess, if I had to make one, which I do, because this is a comic book message board, is that this cover is not depicting anything that's actually going to occur during the book itself. (Sorta like the cover to #2 just did. Which really pissed me off, since I was very much looking forward to Tony getting his butt handed to him.)
That's almost unquestionably Nita. If there was to be a new, as-of-yet unnamed kree woman joining the corps, she'd have to play an awfully big role in #4 (since we know she's not going to be in #3) to warrant getting onto the cover. And seeing as how Vance played a huge role in #2, and we know Robbie's in the next one, it would make sense for another Warrior to tie into the series somehow. And given the exploration this series is doing into Rich's psyche, it would make sense for Abnett & Lanning to spend some time on Rich's history with Nita.
Rich is probably going to have some sort of flashback to his on/off/on/off relationship with Nita, or he's going to have a dream about her, or something like that, which this cover is merely representative of.
The only thing substantial about this cover is that we now know that Granov is the only cover artist working in the industry who can keep his subjects' breasts under a C-cup.
Tim OSullivan
05-12-2007, 07:44 PM
[QUOTE=Expletive Deleted;4809755]Nope, Granov.[/QUOTE
Thanks, ED. On Nova #2, I thought those teeth looked familiar!
Okay, I can't keep it a secret any longer. All of Marvel's cosmic characters will be replaced by hot lesbians. Leading into "Annihilation III: Dear Penthouse Forum..."
My pre-order's already in!
:D
It'll make a fortune! :D
CMBMOOL
05-12-2007, 11:41 PM
Remember how we saw Nova in Annihilation: Prolouge, who was the last corps member he was in contact with ? :D
Cthulhudrew
05-12-2007, 11:58 PM
Remember how we saw Nova in Annihilation: Prolouge, who was the last corps member he was in contact with ? :D
It was a Rigellian, wasn't it? The woman on the cover of #5 has the wrong color skin and her head is too small to be Rigellian.
40yearoldnovafan
05-13-2007, 06:52 AM
My guess, if I had to make one, which I do, because this is a comic book message board, is that this cover is not depicting anything that's actually going to occur during the book itself. (Sorta like the cover to #2 just did. Which really pissed me off, since I was very much looking forward to Tony getting his butt handed to him.)
The cover to number to does not actually show Nova and Iron Man fighting. It shows them head to head or face to face, possibly posturing. But we do not see them actually fighting. The face to face sparring actually did occur in the issue.
Remember, cover artists do not always know what will actually be inside the book. Marvel fooled us again, the the cover did depict what was inside.
Jimmy
Ravenheart
05-13-2007, 07:24 AM
Nice cover.I'm guessing she's the first member of the new Nova Corps.As for Namorita being mentioned,I saw a cover for an upcoming issue of Incredible Hulk.On the cover along with Hulk is Hercules,Angel,Scorpion and a woman with an N on her belt that looks alot like Namorita.
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/467/wizarduniverse194886236vz1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
aniscape
05-13-2007, 08:20 AM
Nice cover.I'm guessing she's the first member of the new Nova Corps.As for Namorita being mentioned,I saw a cover for an upcoming issue of Incredible Hulk.On the cover along with Hulk is Hercules,Angel,Scorpion and a woman with an N on her belt that looks alot like Namorita.
Actually that is Namora. Namorita's Mom that has just been brought back to life in the pages of Agents of Atlas mini sireies
Ravenheart
05-13-2007, 08:25 AM
Actually that is Namora. Namorita's Mom that has just been brought back to life in the pages of Agents of Atlas mini sireies
Ah okay thanks for the info.
Bricolo
05-13-2007, 08:51 AM
So, is the possibility of a sex change completely ruled out here? I am certain it is someone else but maybe the CBR News team is onto something. Maybe one MAN couldn't handle all of that power so he became a woman.
pendragon
05-14-2007, 11:05 AM
Well Namorita is actually a clone of Namora.
As seen in Namor #19-20
So it could be another clone of Namorita
Cthulhudrew
05-14-2007, 12:01 PM
Well Namorita is actually a clone of Namora.
She's not a strict clone, though, is she? For some reason I remembered that story having it that she was more a test tube baby grown from the DNA of both her "parents" (Namora and Talan), and not just from Namora's DNA alone.
Been a while since I read those issues of Sub-Mariner, though.
kidpernicious
05-14-2007, 01:49 PM
She's not a strict clone, though, is she? For some reason I remembered that story having it that she was more a test tube baby grown from the DNA of both her "parents" (Namora and Talan), and not just from Namora's DNA alone.
Been a while since I read those issues of Sub-Mariner, though.
If I recall correctly she's ended up being a straight-up clone of Namora, just always raised as her daughter.
firestarfan
05-14-2007, 02:19 PM
The cover to number to does not actually show Nova and Iron Man fighting. It shows them head to head or face to face, possibly posturing. But we do not see them actually fighting. The face to face sparring actually did occur in the issue.
Remember, cover artists do not always know what will actually be inside the book. Marvel fooled us again, the the cover did depict what was inside.
Jimmy
Well, either Iron Man's holding a curiously-shaped hot-pocket, or that's a fist. Granted the cover doesn't "show" a fight but you can't argue that it doesn't imply one.
Likewise, this cover "implies" that a woman will be wearing a Nova Centurion uniform within the contents of the book, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Nova3333
05-14-2007, 02:49 PM
So while I wait VERY CALMLY for my copy of Nova 2 to arrive by mail (yeah I've been hunting high an' low for a copy but thanks God for the net) here we all are debating Nova 5's cover which has been almost as much a topic as Annihilation's 4's cover (or was it 5, then 3...you know the one with Ravenous holding a bloodied Nova's helmet and die-hard Nova fans though he was gonna kick the bucket BUt Thanos did instead). A Female Nova. Not an original concept if you've read What If Nova had been Another Person? But who is this lovely blue-skinned, white haired female with the original duds on (and nice shapely duds they are too!). For me I do like Expletive's alternatve universe theory (minds think alike..we must be Gemini's) where Nita got the power boost after Rich got killed instead..Did happen with Robert Rider as Nova0.0 so why not Nita? But of course it could be a Kree, or any blue-skinned alien race that has been a member of the previous Corps..but which one? Not the first generation circa 70's as those appearing in FF 204-210 were all Xandarian recruits..part of the 500. Maybe she's a refugee from Xandar's 2nd Generation Corps (Starcorps as it was then) who, along with other survivors left the planet after destruction by Nebula and founded an Xandarian outpost we haven't seen...or yes it could be that the Worldmind, taking temepory control over Rich (as apparently seen, well I will see) in Nova 2 and decided to take matters it its own hands and do the dirty on some unsspecting Kree lovely to boost the Ranks..another aspect of the Nova Burst so to speak. But the Rich sex change theory..hope not..then again would be a good what if all in itself.
kidpernicious
05-14-2007, 11:26 PM
I don't even think this Nova is blue-skinned like everyone else seems to. Of course could just be an art issue, lighting, etc., but that looks like ashen, white skin to me.
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