Amph Annihilation: Cosmic Marvel Storytelling!

When the likes of Thanos and Galactus are in a story and aren't even the toughest people on the playing field, you know it's big.

Annihilation and Conquest are pure storytelling gold. Much like the Green Lantern Corps running at DC at the moment, Marvel's cosmic series is one of the best things going in comics right now. It's epic, it's awesome, great characters, great story, good, beyond good and evil, rebel alliances against unstoppable evil fleets, and other levels of awesome. If you're a fan of Star Wars, then IMO you owe it to yourself to start getting this series.

For myself, I'm a particular fan now of Nova and of Quasar. I knew virtually nothing about those characters previous to picking up these books, but now they rank as some of my favorite characters in comics. Also, Drax. Drax is pure awesome.

Anyone else reading this?

 

Drax, who may or may not have a past in destruction? Or am I thinking of someone else?

 

That'd be the Drax in question. He destroys stuff good.

 

Except he's now slightly (actually totally) different to how he used to be.

 

Annihilation got me into Nova, one of my new favorite characters. He's essentially Marvel's answer to Green Lantern, except that the entire Nova Corps except for him has been wiped out. As a result he has ALL of their combined power. Very cool stuff.

 

Nova is great so far. I'm really enjoying where it is right now, especially what with his power levels down and his old friends after him. A major problem is that my local dealer doesn't stock Nova so much, which made it tough to track down the issues that had gone by before I discovered Annihilation.

 

I came late to the Annihilation party, so I've been collecting them in TPB. And it's definitely one of the best and cohesive story arcs that I've read. I've got to say that the best part of it for me is the use of so many of the smaller and lesser known characters, in the process making them all that much more interesting.

 

Annihilation: Conquest (part five of six)
Oh, he's down with it. It was his idea. The way he put it, if I recall it right, was "I AM GROOT."
This week, the whole Ultron/Quasar/Adam Warlock section didn't really feel like it went very far. Obviously, Ultron taking over Adam Warlock's body counts as a pretty huge plot development, but it really felt a lot like things moved forward. Yes, we got to see how Ultron has planned everything out, how he's evil and all, but I was honestly disapointed for the first time in a little while. Maybe it's just the natural letdown of switching from the hardcovers to the singles. Hopefully not. Fortunately, the Starlord portion was darn cool. That whole bunch of crazies is just good honest fun, and the way that they always seem headed for disaster is funny.

 

I've scene the trades around and i've been interested in picking them up, but they are a bit expensive. I'll porbably get them some time soon. I'm interested in Nova. He seems like a cool character and his book is nicely drawn.

 

i really enjoyed the starlord parts of the story so far.
mostly because they've revived bug, rocket racoon, and captain universe. some of those old mantlo characters really die hard.

 

Agreed.

It marked the only time I've ever picked up a book from the strength of the cover.