What I Bought 1/7/2026

Two weekends ago, when I was working on a Saturday Splash Page for later this month, the post editor locked up when I went to load the image. I ended up closing Firefox, and when I reopened it, I couldn't open any posts, and some images were missing from posts that already went up. Logging out and back in didn't fix it, and I went to the extent of downloading Chrome to try and use that. It worked, but fortunately, things did eventually sort themselves out in Firefox. Hopefully that was some strange one-off. 

Nova: Centurion #3, by Jed MacKay (writer), Alvaro Lopez and Matteo Della Fonte (artists), Mattia Iacono (color artist), Joe Caramagna (letterer) - I'd tell Rich he needs to keep his Pip on a leash, but Pip would probably be into that.

The Accuser gets back in the game long enough to keep Nova from being completely drained of energy. They bail, and Richard decides they should actually have a plan. The interesting bit there is Rochard can apparently converse with the Worldmind in some virtual conference room, at 10,000% the speed of regular time. In other words, in what appears to be the space between two words to someone on the outside.

Lopez depicts the conference room as a mass, snowy graveyard, all the tombstone with crest on Nova's helmet and a serial number. Which seems like something Rider would do, to keep himself focused on his mission. Which makes me curious if the conference space always looks that way, or if it's because Richard is so fixated on getting Ravenous for what he did. Guess we'll see if MacKay and Lopez use it again in later issues.

The plan that involves using the facilities of this place to drain Ravenous' energy, then borrowing the Accuser's weapon to beat Ravenous like a rented mule. Annihilation did establish Ravenous is vulnerable to being smashed in the face with a big hammer. That done, Nova finds some Mysterium on Ravenous. Ravenous gets taken away by the Accuser, Rich gets paid, and Cammi's cleared of charges and looking to join the crew. Because she went snooping, and found the stolen Mysterium in the hold of Nova's ship. Because he was the thief.

So, did Rider do it because the Mysterium belonged to a big crime organization? Rob from the guilty, limit their ability to inflict harm, plus use it to keep the Worldmind charged up so he can protect the innocent? Or is the Worldmind piloting Rider when he's asleep again, to make sure they have enough money to pay the power bills so it doesn't go offline? I'd cling to my suggestion the Skrull side of the KSW did it, but that wouldn't explain the Mysterium being on Rider's ship. Unless the Accuser planted it, but then a Kree is involved in my plan that was supposed to be a Skrull double-cross..