Yeah, because I'm not done beating this horse. Let's start with Nova.

First of all, I'm going to say Jeph Loeb's Nova is non-negotiable with me. I don't care who says how passionate he is about the book. He has yet to address Richard Rider's death. Also, Loeb hasn't written a good story in years. In fact he's written some of the worst. Just mentioning "Ultimatum" should be enough to make any comic reader throw up in their mouth a little.

Also, maybe it's me but Loeb naming this new Nova after his late son Sam Loeb strikes me as being in very bad taste. Yes it's tragic his son died so young but naming a comic character after him seems like a bad idea for a few reasons. For one thing it runs the risk of this character devolving into a Gary Stu of same capacity. Also, that is he's being added at the expense of a popular and beloved character is sure to piss off some people, myself included. It just doesn't seem like a good idea to honor the memory of a loved one by creating a character that has so much potential to wind up largely hated. Arguably he already is. All in loving memory?

Moving on to Guardians of the Galaxy.

I harp on Bendis a lot but the fact is he can and actually has put out good work. However this has always, always been solo titles for street level crime fighters. If they're wise guys, all the better. Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-man is good stuff. His team books on the other hand have been consistently terrible. His long tenure on Avengers has been especially atrocious. When all the characters on a team talk the same about irrelevant crap the team is no longer entertaining. That's why I never believed Bendis was a good pic for Guardians. That and the fact that it's a cosmic book being written by a guy who specializing in street level crime which in my mind are polar opposites. However if there were any doubts that this run would be garbage, a recent interview by Newsarama has dispelled them. I'm now fairly certain this book won't be worth using as toilet paper. Just look for yourself. I mean it, read this.

Brian Bendis and Guardians of the Galaxy

Quite a few red flags there. Let me go over the big ones for myself.

-He mentions Guardians feeling like it was in it's own little world as if it were a weakness. I know several people who consider that a strength. For me certainly a big part of the cosmic appeal is for once Earth isn't the center of the universe. The universe is a big place and I like seeing action elsewhere.

-"Guarding the galaxy for Earth" is something he said at one point and it's bullshit. It spits in the face of why these Guardians were formed. They were made in order to be a first-strike team to immediately take care of galactic threats for the sake of all galactic civilization. Not just Earth. Why is Earth going to be the center of the universe again?

-Explore their relationships with one another? That's not what made Guardians fun! Guardians of the Galaxy is like The Dirty Dozen in space. They're an eclectic mishmash of characters that don't exactly get along completey and those interactions are where the fun is. For that matter is he somehow inplying there wasn't much character development in the DnA run? That it took a back seat to the hard sci-fi? If so then I disagree entirely

-This quote has a couple things in particular.

"This is stuff about the Marvel Universe that I love dearly, but my instincts sometimes are always to go back to street-level or crime-related, character-based stuff. But — I do like taking the part of me that offers that, and bringing it to the characters you least expect. And I think Rocket Raccoon is the character you’d least expect."

First of all for the love of god follow your instincts and go back to crime/street level books. It's what you're good at man. And just for the record, Rocket Raccoon is one of the first characters I'd expect to have that kind of treatment. He's a scrappy little guy and if you're doing your research you'd know that.

-Groot will be more "jewey"? What the fuck does "jewey" even mean? Does it pertain to being Jewish? If so, how the hell did Groot ever come off as "jewey"?

I hope these books flop...hard.