The First 10: Nova

   Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

10. Vore

Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Artist: Wellinton Alves

Oof. Look, if you've come up with a title for an issue, maybe Google it first? Make sure you aren't going to give some internet-savvy people some horrible flashbacks to episodes of the F Plus.

Anyway, this issue opens with Nova and Gamora alternately fighting and making out before they realize that oh, hey, they don't know where they are. Or how they got there. They explore a bit, and Gamora tells Nova to give in and become a Select again. Nova tells her he's horrified at who she is. And not just now; turns out that Nova broke up with her because she was a whole bunch of murder-crazy even before a computer race took over her mind.

Eventually, Nova seems to give in to his love for Gamora, buuuuuuut that turns out to be a ploy. He blasts her to death before she can stab him. Or, y'know, it seems that he's killed her, but who among us really believes that?

Nova throws Gamora's "corpse" and Drax, and flies off to continue his search for the Technarchy. But the technovirus will kill him or conquer his mind within two hours. Will he save the galaxy from the Phalanx? Will the true master of the Phalanx forces be revealed??? I dunno, read the book yourself.

These issues of Nova and the ones that follow are available in trade, in the Annihilation Conquest omnibus, or maybe on the Marvel Unlimited app? It's a fun run, and one I'd obviously recommend.

As final impressions, I don't know how consistent the book feels as a whole, but each variation is good on its own. Awesome cosmic adventure for you Guardians fans out there.

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