DnA Interview (Nova, Surfer, Dark Avengers!)

[TheCorpulent1]

Remember Dread, both Surfer and Stardust are heralds of Galactus at the moment, so the potential for view and counterview is there. If handed to the right people, and I believe D&A are, they could move Surfer's story into an interesting area.

He would have to work through his decision to bond himself to Galactus again. They could show how even though he's harder and a bit darker, he still tries to do the right thing when it comes to steering Galactus in a direction that does less damage, all while stuck in a morality battle with Stardust (Who if you remember, sacrifised the last of his race to Galactus in a bid for heraldship.)

Surfer and Stardust would be the proverbial yin and yang with Galactus as the centerpoint.

I think it would prove to be quite an interesting story to tell.

That's a really good point. I forgot about Stardust. Surfer could be the good cop to Stardust's bad cop--where Stardust just wants to indiscriminately destroy planets for Galactus, the Surfer could work to divert Galactus' attention to uninhabited planets instead or try to help the planets Stardust dooms. The only problem I see there is that they could come off like unruly children vying for their parent's attention if it's not handled right.

 

[Franklin Richards]

I can't wait till the Hickman / Eaglesham FF show back up in the world they invented. The new space stories are so great they really need a good event that crosses over into the FF main title. Considering most of these titles started in FF anyway.

Reed needs to go back to space and setup a home for the Worldmind. Is that still in Richard's uniform?

 

[Brainiac 8]

I forgot about Stardust. You have a point there. Least that angle is there. I recall both showed up during McDuffie's FF run, but, yeah, I kind of blocked that story for the whole Wakandan arm-grappling thing.

To be honest, I really never cared for the Surfer. At least enough to collect a solo with him. I didn't read his mini for ANNIHILATION, either.

I try to pretend the current state of Black Panther is imaginary, since he is constantlty made undefeatable for no appearant reason. Plus he hijacked Storm, and while I'm not a huge Storm fan, she still belongs in the X-Men...and if you want to go by history (and not the shoehorned history) she ultimately needs to hook up with Forge.

The fact that he could grapple Surfer and win was not only silly, but stupid and poor writing. Even Nova is more than Panther could handle now, and he had to struggle to avoid death at the hands of Surfer.

And yea, Corp, you're right. It could easily turn into a story about unruly children, and it would have to be handled carefully, but I've seen stranger stories work before.

Although, I would give up a leg to hear Galactus go "If I have to yell at you two again to stop fighting, we will turn this car right around and noone will get to go to Disney World!"

 

[Brainiac 8]

I can't wait till the Hickman / Eaglesham FF show back up in the world they invented. The new space stories are so great they really need a good event that crosses over into the FF main title. Considering most of these titles started in FF anyway.

Reed needs to go back to space and setup a home for the Worldmind. Is that still in Richard's uniform?

Currently Richard is

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Quasar, since he was stripped of his power by a powermad Worldmind. Worldmind labotomized Ego the living planet and made that New Xandar, and Richard sort of had issues with that, not to mention that WM is also brainwashing people into doing whatever it is he tells them too, thus making the new Nova Corps a near zombie army.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Worldmind currently inhabits Ego, the Living Planet. It booted Rich out of the Nova Corps too, claiming the full Nova Force had driven him crazy just like Garthan Saal, the last guy to hold all of the Nova Force. Wendell gave Rich the quantum bands so that he could try and stop the Worldmind from getting the new Nova Corps--including Rich's brother Robbie--killed in the current Kree/Shi'ar War.

Man, Marvel's cosmic books kick so much ass. t:

 

[Franklin Richards]

The guy had Doom's power absorbers on. What more do you want?


Device absorbs Surfer's powers. Surfer is weaker. Black Panther is a better fighter. Black Panther gets hit in.


Seems pretty simple to me.

 

[Franklin Richards]

The Worldmind currently inhabits Ego, the Living Planet. It booted Rich out of the Nova Corps too, claiming the full Nova Force had driven him crazy just like Garthan Saal, the last guy to hold all of the Nova Force. Wendell gave Rich the quantum bands so that he could try and stop the Worldmind from getting the new Nova Corps--including Rich's brother Robbie--killed in the current Kree/Shi'ar War.

Man, Marvel's cosmic books kick so much ass. t:

Sounds like a piece of Ultron still exists somewhere in the Worldmind. I think Reed needs to come fix that ****e.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Dread's theory is that the Nova Force actually drove the Worldmind insane, since it was supposed to be shielding Rich from the insanity.

 

[Brainiac 8]

Dread's theory is that the Nova Force actually drove the Worldmind insane, since it was supposed to be shielding Rich from the insanity.

I think this is the case. I'm looking forward to seeing how they resolve it.

 

[Dread]

It isn't "my theory" about Worldmind; that was what it seemed Abnett & Lanning were going with in NOVA. I think Richard alluded to that much himself, after PEGASUS found him to not be insane and instead they guessed that the Nova Corps were all under some sort of control. While some of the other reasons; the Phalanx virus, being burnt out and rebooted via Earthling technology, are good theories, it seemed a bit obvious to me that DnA are switching the dynamic a bit. Instead of the AI fearing the human will become corrupted by power, the AI has.

Although technically Worldmind has been programmed with the brain patterns of at least one deceased Nova Corps member, so he is technically akin to something like Vision, Jocasta, or Ultron in that he is an AI whose personality is based on downloaded brain patterns, making it fully logical that Worldmind could be corrupted, as Vision was once corrupted by ISAAC or fell for Wanda because his brain patterns liked her. But, no matter.

I agree with you dread about the defenders being always a temporay kinda thing. They were the "heavy hitters" more powerful than the Avengers, but without any stability.

I missed the 01-02 series..out of comics then..I'll have to check on the '05 stuff..I did follow the lateste "Last Defenders" stuff..it was solid on it's own merit, with no shot of catching on.

Part of me wishes marvel would have more of an intrepid spirit when it comes to sales. Some books, you just have to settle for 20-25k sales for a few years to buld the fan base. I think we'll see nova for at least a couple more years. I don't know why marvel doesnt give books with even less sales, more leeway once and awhile. Marvel didnt get where they are by being so reactionary.

I'd rather see a good solid Defenders or Champions mini than the throwaway Marvel apes , manga, fairy tales or Zombies kinda stuff that we so clearly will be mocking 5 years from now. Heck most of us are mocking them now. (i have enjoyed some of the zombies stuff however).

I agree; while I would say that it hard to tell what mini's or ongoings will remain stable at 25k and which will just sink into the sales abyss, even from a business perspective, it can be hard to justify made-for-the-half- off-bin rubbish like MARVEL APES. To be fair, though, Marvel has tried reviving the Defenders about every 2-3 years in some capacity, it seems.

It's hard to launch any team-book that isn't a proven commodity; look at the sales struggles of THE ORDER, AGENTS OF ATLAS, or even CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI-13. Even some spin-off's of the X-Men don't sell that great anymore. Keeping the Fantastic Four selling at over 50k a month has also become a challenge. The Avengers are the healthiest team franchise right now; it is just a shame it has come at some expense of some others. There is a part of me that wonders what may have happened had Marvel spread the wealth in 2004 and instead of sticking both Wolverine and Spider-Man into 2004's NEW AVENGERS, they allowed Bendis Wolverine but had Spidey join the Four, the team he always interacted with heavily anyway. Would it have boosted both, or neither? Who knows. Maybe in a parallel universe somewhere...