While down on Earth, superheroes were fighting their grubby Civil War, in the furthest reaches of the Marvel Universe an epic, sweeping conflict was taking place: Annihilation.This comic book event pitted Marvel's "cosmic" and space-bound characters against Annihilus' invading xenomorphic Annihilation Wave of bug creatures and ships from the Negative Zone in an all-or-nothing scarp for galactic domination.
One of the bugs' first acts in this war was the total destruction of the Nova Corps (Marvel's answer to DC's more famous Green Lantern Corps) and its home planet (Xandar).
Only one member of the Corps survives - Nova aka Earthman Richard Rider (who takes on the accumulated knowledge of Xandar aka The Worldmind).
After the events of the Annihilation series (which ran through several titles and numerous mini-series), the first issue of Nova finds Richard Rider literally tearing around the galaxy trying to fight all the battles, halt all the disasters, right all the wrongs that the entire Corps used to handle. Eventually he pushes himself too far and - with a bit of nudging from the Worldmind - crash lands on Earth, setting the stage for a hand-to-head with Iron Man in issue 2.
Let's hope Nova kicks old tin head's butt!
As the after effects of the whole Civil War "debacle" ripple through Marvel's main titles (in the form of the militaristic Initiative) , and its implications continue to be felt (multi-millionaire, capitalist, corporate-type Tony Stark aka Iron Man now leads an army of superpowered bullyboys while heroic, square jawed Captain America lies dead on a cold slab, with all that symbolises), we have to look to these "non-Earth-based" titles (and the Ultimate Universe) for gentle reminders of an age when comics were fun and interesting, and superheroes were real heroes.
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