nova32cover The Story: A REALM OF KINGS issue! It’s the long-awaited and shattering return of one of the Human Rocket’s greatest foes…the Sphinx! Nova and Darkhawk are missing and presumed dead—and they really will be dead if they don’t put aside their roles of hunter and hunted!

Can the galaxy’s top cop team up with the galaxy’s most wanted to stop a rising menace from the past…and the future?

Find out what a huge threat the immortal Sphinx poses to the Marvel Universe, and discover why CosmicBookNews.com raves “tightly paced, beautiful to behold, exciting, and fun…from beginning to end, NOVA will keep you on the edge of your seat.”

Written By: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning | Pencils By: Andrea DiVito | Cover By: Brandon Peterson | Rated T | $2.99

Thoughts: Here’s another example of the D&A Dream-Team bringing back another Marvel relic–doomed to heroic defeat and buried in Marvel history books. Sphinx is a powerful mutant that goes back to Egyptian times, was empowered by the Ka Stone (an alien device), and seeks the power of Xandar in order to finally end his boring life. That’s the short of it but it’s likely I’ve missed a more up to date version of Sphinx that’s not so self-destructive.

Abnett and Lanning once again grab hold of that alien origin element in order to find a character that they can re-develop and draw into their cosmic playground–one that first appearaed in Nova #6 in 1977 no less! For that alone, I give it all the support I can muster.

I’ve always loved Apocalypse, and I pretty much stopped collecting comics after Age of Apocalypse. The Sphinx is as close a counter-part to Apocalypse as I can get at this point–so bring it on!