Looking for honest, non-biased opinions: Nova or Green Lantern Corps?

[Karl O'Neill]

I have being an avid fan of Green Lantern since Rebirth and Recharge, I have collected every single issue of both the main green lantern book and the GLC book,

I read annihilation and loved every panel, now I collect Gaurdians of the Galaxy and enjoy it,

I think the Sinestro Corps war is the best story that has been published in comics in the last ten years, I had no expectations but the story blew me away on every level.

is nova as good?

Thoughts?

[Somebody]

Fact = Nova is better.

[XPac]

Though I think Sinestro Corps is better than Nova's most recent event (Conquest) by a mile, I personally enjoy Nova more on an issue to issue basis.

That said, the Green Lantern books do seem to be building up to something really cool. I don't necessarily have that same building anticipation for what's going on in Nova.

[The Cool Thatguy]

I prefer Nova as a solo act. The Nova Corps were always pretty much red shirts built around Rich, anyways.

Though it would be nice if they had some galaxy cops ala Green Lantern if only to spare the Corps from being made into corpses again.

[Expletive Deleted]

It depends on what you like.

For me, I like the epic sense that Johns is bringing to GL/GLC and I like the development of the mythology, but I tend to think his Hal Jordan is fairly dull and I'm not keen on the way Johns is building so much of his run on plot points stripmined from a few old Alan Moore shorts. I buy it in trades, though, so I'm only up through the middle of the Sinestro Corps War storyline. If it gets better or worse after that, I have no idea.

With NOVA, I like the action and the humor, and I especially like the general feeling of freshness to DnA's stories. Like this last one. It's a superhero versus Galactus, but not in a familiar way. The downside is that the Conquest tie-ins were a bit muddled, and I'm not clear what (if anything) they're building towards. And the art is occasionally iffy.

Of the two, I'd say I'm enjoying them on about an even footing. That said, add in GotG and it's not even close.

[Nova3333]

If you use my link to my blog, the Nova Zone (in my vredit list at the foot) and go to links/ Green Lantern Spotlight there's a good comparision article there written by a GL/Nova fan comparing the Corps, Rich, Kyle, etc and how the two concepts are quite different. For the record I started buying Green Lantern and GLCorps this year and I consider then very different from events in Nova. Of course whether Nova is better off alone or should reform the Nova Corps is a long-going debate that we Novaphiles have been speaking about at Nova Prime. For the moment I personally prefer him solo but sooner or later circumstances will arise when the need for Rich to reform the Corps will become a necessity.

[XPac]

It depends on what you like.

For me, I like the epic sense that Johns is bringing to GL/GLC and I like the development of the mythology, but I tend to think his Hal Jordan is fairly dull and I'm not keen on the way Johns is building so much of his run on plot points stripmined from a few old Alan Moore shorts. I buy it in trades, though, so I'm only up through the middle of the Sinestro Corps War storyline. If it gets better or worse after that, I have no idea.

With NOVA, I like the action and the humor, and I especially like the general feeling of freshness to DnA's stories. Like this last one. It's a superhero versus Galactus, but not in a familiar way. The downside is that the Conquest tie-ins were a bit muddled, and I'm not clear what (if anything) they're building towards. And the art is occasionally iffy.

Of the two, I'd say I'm enjoying them on about an even footing. That said, add in GotG and it's not even close.

I agree about Hal Jordon. I think the Green Lantern mythology is very cool... but I think the Green Lantern character himself is actually kinda generic.

I'm in a minority group that liked Kyle better.

[rZi]

Green Lantern

Reis brings amazing visuals and Johns delivers everything else...

IVE NEVER READ AN ISSUE OF NOVA.

[Hybrid2]

I have being an avid fan of Green Lantern since Rebirth and Recharge, I have collected every single issue of both the main green lantern book and the GLC book,

I read annihilation and loved every panel, now I collect Gaurdians of the Galaxy and enjoy it,

I think the Sinestro Corps war is the best story that has been published in comics in the last ten years, I had no expectations but the story blew me away on every level.

is nova as good?

Thoughts?

Try to find the last Nova Annual.
It explain or the Nova corp recruit,it's very diferent from the GL Corp.

[Shypsi-Prime]

I love Marvel to death. Nova is a cool and interesting character.

But he (nor the Nova Corps) can shine the Green Lantern Corps shoes.

[Push You Down]

I love Marvel to death. Nova is a cool and interesting character.

But he (nor the Nova Corps) can shine the Green Lantern Corps shoes.


Agreed. The Nova Corps just seems like a dimestore version of the GL Corps.

[XPac]

You can't really compare the Nova Corps to the GL corps because there is no Nova Corpse. There are Nova Corpses (I never get tired of that joke), but no Nova Corps. I think the point was to compare the Nova book to the GL Corps book.

Because the Nova Corps is a joke. They literally only show up just to get blown up. That's their sole function in the decades long existance in the MU.

[Siddon]

I like Nova because it's a done in one type series, the GL stuff suffers from typical DC bloat where it just builds and builds and builds and builds and then the pay-off tends to be crap. I'm going to wait a few years before I read the Sinestro Corps for a few reasons 1. I assume it will be collected in a better format, 2. I want to forget what spoilers I heard about it, 3. I want to wait till the writer leaves the book because then I will know the story is done.

[Fatguy]

GLC contains my favorite Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, and I dropped it recently. Nova stars...well, Nova. A character I've never really disliked but I've never really CARED about either. Nova is still on my pull list.

Take from that what you will!

[matthewaos]

I haven't read the current Green Lantern story, but I know I want. As Siddon said, I'm waiting for a good format, for all the reasons he said. I read the first three Nova issues just to see what happens, but I have to say that I liked them. Though I don't really like cosmic storylines, etc, so what do I know...

[Chino]

I've read Nova 1-14 and I'm dropping it. Lack of supporting cast and randomness kind of did it for me. He just roams around, responding to random distress calls with noone to talk to but that voice in his head. I almost want to say there is too mcuh action and not enough of Richard to care. I also didn't find anything interesting or unique about him. He's pretty much Peter Parker in space.

I haven't read any GL so I'm not saying one is better than the other, just giving my 2cents on what I didn't like about Nova.

[Asian_Invasion]

I like them both. It is too hard of decision to finalize which one is better.

[freddy1428]

I like them both. It is too hard of decision to finalize which one is better.

The two series are cool, but I prefer Nova, great art, great story, he have always news and cool stories since annihilation, very different each other, the last story with galactus is awesome, my favorite comics with guardians of galaxy.

[storm_willing_slave]

Like Nova but LOVE GLC!!! The action, the personalities, the villians, and etc. Its just too much to love!:smile:

[RedRonin]

I'm one who is most a Marvel reader (mostly = 95%). I'm also a big New Warriors fan and I really dislike everything to do with the GL outside of John Stewart. That said, Green Lantern Corps is the better book.

I flip through it whenever Gleason is on art, and it's a been pretty tempting to buy it since Sinestro Corps. There taking their new status quo and telling something interesting with it. And feels like it's going somewhere.

Nova on the other hand is incredibly mediocre. From the writing to the art, it's all serviceable, but nothing stand out. I stopped reading the book not too long after Conquest, so I can't speak for the most current issues. But before there was never sense like it was going anywhere or gave me a reason to care about the characters.

[Abrojo]

Nova corps, boring
Original New Warriors Nova, boring

The Nova spawned from Annihilation (which wasnt as good in Conquest), is quite good. As a character he is more interesting than any character in GL corps.

GL corps imho is great trade material for the epic feel of great mythology in a long convoluted story. Perhaps a much better core material. To pick up every month, Nova is much better.

[Doc Goblin]

What I really like and think about the Nova book is that it picks up the ball that DC dropped with Kyle Rayner as the last Green Lantern. DC never put very satisfying focus on that concept and played him more plainly as just another superhero. And now DC has brought the Corps back in its full glory. Now Richard Rider is the last of the Nova Corps in a universe that has become more chaotic, and his book really embraces that idea.

Green Lantern > Nova > Green Lantern Corps

That's how I'd rate the titles. Green Lantern is just really well written and building to some epic stuff. Great writing, great art and great stuff coming. That's just hard to beat. But Nova is a really great series. The writing and art is pretty excellent. The quality has stayed consistent. As a scifi space title, I'd even say Nova is better than Green Lantern.

The GLC title is good. It's not really on the level of Green Lantern or Nova, but it's not a bad title. It's had some great issues, but it's also had some pretty mediocre ones. The art isn't bad, but the style really isn't at all what I'd prefer for a space title. The characters are pretty interesting. I love the cast. Overall, it's a good book.

[SquidSquod]

Isn't the current GL resorting to an origin arc?

Nova needs more backstory and interesting support characters to match the level of GL. But I like Nova potential more, as an individual he's more interesting to me. GL as an individual title is stale, GL corps or GL during a corps-wide arc like Sinestro War shine.

[Nova3333]

The one thing that I do hope DNA do in the long-term is have a stab adding more historical context to the whole Xandarian culture and more specifically how the Nova Force works etc. As a long term Nova fan (from the old pre Annihilation/New Warriors, Nova in the 70's days) DNA have the sci-fi pedigree to attempt to add a lot more depth. Having that said myself and a number of Nova elite at our Nova Prime club have for some time rationilised our own theories and put together our interpretation of what Xandarian society was like, how the Force works using current Quantum Theory science, etc to do a number of Nova inter-connecting fan fiction stories, the first part of which is now being serialised at my blog.
As is one thing we all agree that the vision of the Nova Corps being depicted as the Red Shirts of the MU is something that a lot of Nova fans dislike. That's something we're also trying to re-address but hopefully DNA will do them justice..one day.

[Grimmas]

I have never read Green Lantern, where would one start?

[40yearoldnovafan]

The one thing that I do hope DNA do in the long-term is have a stab adding more historical context to the whole Xandarian culture and more specifically how the Nova Force works etc. As a long term Nova fan (from the old pre Annihilation/New Warriors, Nova in the 70's days) DNA have the sci-fi pedigree to attempt to add a lot more depth. Having that said myself and a number of Nova elite at our Nova Prime club have for some time rationilised our own theories and put together our interpretation of what Xandarian society was like, how the Force works using current Quantum Theory science, etc to do a number of Nova inter-connecting fan fiction stories, the first part of which is now being serialised at my blog.
As is one thing we all agree that the vision of the Nova Corps being depicted as the Red Shirts of the MU is something that a lot of Nova fans dislike. That's something we're also trying to re-address but hopefully DNA will do them justice..one day.

I too would love to see some back story on Xandar and some of the wars they have fought, how they've won, etc. I like that in this series we have seen how others viewed the Nova Corps - protectors.

I would love to see Rich with a supporting cast also. We could see him living on Know Where eating with Peter and Quasar, waking up next to his lady, talking to Cosmo and Rocket Raccoon - you know, the personal moments the X-men and Avengers used to have before all the wars. (Well, with X-men, we are seeing more of this now, which I'm happy about).

Before the series began, I wrote on these posts that Nova needs to have a supporting cast, especially since we knew he was going to be flying from one mission to another. That was a major concern. Rich does need to take a break so we can see him interact with his peeps. That being said ....

NOVA IS MY FAVORITE TITLE BY FAR!!!

The action, the story, the art, the humanity just makes me smile every month.

I read the Green Lantern, and enjoy Hal Jordan, but Nova is a true inter-galactic cop. I do not read the Green Lantern Corp. BUT I LOVE NOVA.

Jimmy

[Omega Alpha]

I agree about Hal Jordon. I think the Green Lantern mythology is very cool... but I think the Green Lantern character himself is actually kinda generic.

I'm in a minority group that liked Kyle better.

I'm not sure we're really a minority. Jordan's return was more of a "I want my childhood back" from Johns than anything else.

Anyway, currently I'm thinking Nova is the best book out of the two. But the GLC is easily superior to the Nova one because they aren't (or were) entirely composed of red-shirts.