Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

9. Knowhere, Part 2

Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Artist: Wellinton Alves

I didn't mention it in the previous section, but it's really cool to see this kind of space-horror pop up in a book like this. That kind of messing around with genre was what made this Nova series so much fun.

Cosmo and Nova explore Knowhere in search of the heroes of Xanth, who are now fully zombified. Of course, they run into them, and there’s a big fight. A fight that Cosmo owns. Telepathic Russian space dog for the win.

Nova ends up tapping into the Phalanx technovirus he's been fighting, and uses it to seal the Xanth heroes back in their boxes. Afterward, Cosmo is able to welcome everyone back to Knowhere and send Nova on his way.

Even better, he can send our human rocket into the heart of the Phalanx systems. After he vanishes, however, two more people port in and out: Drax and Gamora, still chasing Nova.

Also, Nova gives Cosmo a chewy bone, and Cosmo proceeds to play with it for the next two hours in a panel that literally made me clutch my hands to my heart.