With speculation that Nova will be leaving the Secret Avengers as covered by Multiversity Comics due to his seemingly awkward place in the team because “he’s the leader of the Nova Corps, houses the World Mind in his helmet, and is currently involved in the Thanos Imperative arc,” it brings some thoughts to mind about a worthy replacement.

Although the points mentioned by Multiversity are valid, they don’t make Nova any more odd than Thor when he has to deal with Asgard stuff, Wolverine when he has to fly coast-to-coast and all around the world for whatever shenanigans he’s up to in the dozen books he appears in, or Spider-Man who has enough personal life story lines to wrap up, or at least come to terms with and move on from… you get the picture.

I always (and still do) primarily support the Marvel Galactic line of books. Why? Because I find them more original ALL the time and they have underused characters that could use more attention and development.

So why blog here about MAYBE Nova leaving the Secret Avengers? Because why not replace Nova with… come on, like you haven’t guessed already… DARKHAWK! Right? Am I right? huh?

Darkhawk’s already been an Avenger, he’s teamed-up with the likes of Captain America in his own book when he was a rookie, and on Avengers West Coast (with War Machine in particular) and Annuals, Moon Knight in Spider-Man’s Round Robin story line from the 90s–he’s teamed with plenty others current Avengers–Spidey in his own book and minis, Wolverine in Secret Defenders–and he’s already been on a “seeee-creet” team… as mentioned: Secret Defenders.

Why not replace a busy cosmic hero with one that served with him as a New Warrior, as director of Project PEGUSUS, as a cosmic ally against the Sphinx?

It just makes sense to me, and I want to see it happen. Am I wrong to wish such possibilities?!