Here's Andrea DeVito's Sphinx redesign, from NOVA #32. Now, longtime Marvel fans may have thought The THING #34 marked the end of the old Nova villain, but the present team of Abnett and Lanning have worked in a revival of the Sphinx that better uses his long life and time traveling possibilities. Me? I actually look forward to catching up with Nova again. Here I'm going to finish off my Machine Man reviews for now very soon. I'd love to hear from any fans of these series and encourage people to give my original material a try in this blog as well!

Dream On over Nova’s helmet during flight 12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txlXcJDtDwM [IMG]http://i28.tinypic.com/352mdsi.gif[/IMG] Wolfman / Buscema / Giacoia / Rosen / Glynis Wein Your chance to guess along in a Special Mighty Marvel Mystery Spider-Man meets Nova---and together they try to discover--- “Who is---the Man Called Photon?” Here we’re presented with ovals showing Futon, then the suspects: Harry Daze Jason Dean Michael Lincoln Peter Parker Franklin Risk -- ---across a tableau that finds Nova and Spidey standing beside a melted wall ---and who is this unfortunate corpse, fingers out stretched over torn calendar pages, July through December? The first clue was Charles Rider’s words to Rich last month...it’s a week after that...Nova’s flying up to see Uncle Ralph. He changes to Rich Rider (who doesn’t need any Detroit Wheels) and goes inside the luxurious home, noting he is the only person in the family who isn’t punctual (but it’s poor Ralph who i...

So here's Nova Ten. (this title reminds me of a line early in The Book of Law about the four powers of the Sphinx. The star man, the sphinx...for a science fiction book, I must admit it's more mystical in some ways than I remember.) Issue Ten “Four Against the Sphinx!” So we open between issues...a fight already in progress, at Westhaven Nuclear Generating Station. Amidst walls of flame, Nova dukes it out with an insectoid-headed villain resembling Stingray. Nova ends the impressive-looking fight by diving both of them into the local lake, and presses his attack to the last. Along with this good news, Nova learns he’s been cleared of the warehouse breaking and entry (see Nova #7). Now as Richard Rider he prepares for math and science mid terms, while his silly brother Robbie rubs in his a+. The assault on the Sphinx continues. Condor, Powerhouse and Diamondhead find they face creations of light, as Kur rouses his master. Sphinx breaks with his pyramid meditation to fac...

Nova, I finally get you. This morning it becomes an epiphany, dawning like a warm shower on the sense. NOVA is written as it is so that little kids, too, can enjoy it. Truthfully, many ex-fans cluster here to talk of many things. Or make that, ex-buyers...of comic books, at least. Some of the more popular product amongst people who overlap that crowd are the kid-friendly comics, which seem to have versions of the characters that evoke their sense of wonder and fun. Now, it’s true, by the time Shooter has Pym losing his marbles, it’s evidence that the path to redemption played over and over again went now into a darkness found in adult life, though these things affect many of the young readers, too. But it’s heavy. What Alan (Watchmen) Moore grasped was an alternative, which to this post-modernist genius of deconstruction became clear as A-B-C Comics in the decade after his revolutionary masterpiece of the medium. His efforts at straight-up super heroes convinced some more than ot...