![]() My brain wasn’t exactly set ablaze with philosophical conundrums, if you catch my drift. I was never much of a New Warriors fan, so I can’t really converse intelligently about the character development that occurs within (Script: Fabian Nicieza, Art: Darick Robertson, Larry Mahlstedt). The cover promises thought-provoking contents, but I don’t know that I read any of that. THE WHOLE INFANTINO THING IS FORGOTTEN, at least from Nova’s perspective. Being young heroes, there was plenty of time in the series for angst and other hormonally-driven storytelling devices, and in this issue, as the cover so clearly attests (whose guns look better while kissing, Nova or Batman?), Nova got to make out with Namorita. ![]() Name aside, Nova was a key component of the team, and his cosmic abilities made him one of the powerhouses of the group, alongside such B-roll characters as Speedball, Night-Thrasher, and Namorita. I guess “The Young Characters That Have Been Around For Awhile Warriors” was a tad clunky. The heroes were young, but Nova had been around for over a decade at this point, so it was more a youth thing than a novelty thing. It should be noted that “New” here is a relative term. They were a conglomeration of the company’s new blood, toiling in the shadows of their Avenger elders, and had the “us against the world” attitude present in every up and coming generation. Nova has never been in the upper echelon of Marvel characters, but he’s had a number of post-Infantino revivals over the years, and the most successful and enduring of those resurrections came in The New Warriors. A part of the comic book boom in the first half on the 1990s, which ran from the start of that decade to the industry nadir of 1996, Warriors featured a ragtag assemblage of Marvel heroes and heroines. And you don’t have to be a journalist to know that multiple sources can be read as a little thing known as “confirmation.” So Infantino torpedoed poor Richard Rider’s title. Judging by some of the comments that the post generated, my friend wasn’t alone. Not that I was against what he did artistically on the book, but a friend of mine had mentioned how much he loathed that tenure, and how Carmine had (theoretically) ruined what had been one of his favorite books. ![]() ![]() But a while ago I wrote about his run on Nova, during his brief 1970s sojourn over at Marvel, and how he hopped onto that title and rode it straight to hell. I think his stuff is the cat’s meow, and let’s leave it at that. I’ve catalogued my love for Carmine Infantino’s artwork on a number of occasions, so I won’t belabor that amour again. ![]()
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