I bought the first year or so of Nova off the rack, buying into the hype about how he was “Marvel’s next big thing,” but the series never came together for me. Sal Buscema’s art underwhelmed, and Wolfman’s prosaic, turn-back-the-clock-to-the-early-days-of-Spider-Man formula didn’t best serve the concept. During my Odinsleep away from comics I gather the concept was substantially reinvented, though from the scattered digital books I’ve read, Nova appears lost in the long shadow cast by the Green Lantern Corps.

I’d welcome a reading list — I’d like to know more about the essential Nova as he has evolved.

I half-expect Nova to make a cameo in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and a solo film sometime in the next several years wouldn’t shock me, either.

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