What I Bought 12/11/2025

The seventh issue of Dust to Dust, originally solicited for October, then pushed back to December, has since been pushed back into late January. J.G. Jones apparently waiting for the universe to end, restart and for time to once again reach the 1930s before he finishes this mini-series.

Nova: Centurion #2, by Jed MacKay (writer), Alvaro Lopez and Matteo Della Fonte (artists), Mattia Iacono (color artist), Cory Petit (letterer) - If you didn't spot the red suspenders, you'd think Nova was fighting Drax.

Cammi relates everything she went through preparing to pull this heist, before someone who might be Ravenous decided just blast his way in. Nova has another passenger on his ship, an Accuser who works for the Kree-Skrull War because she believes it's the best way for their people to work together: A group full of people who spent their lives up to then trying to kill each other.

Prediction: "Ravenous" will actually turn out to be a Skrull member of the group, maybe the leader from their side, maybe not, and Yr-Kett will be disillusioned by this betrayal.

They track down Ravenous, stealing power from a grid on some weapons disposal planet. Nova fights like a dumbass, needing several pages to be informed Ravenous is absorbing the energy he's throwing around. And Yr-Kett's not much better. I should have known things were gonna go badly when Nova got clean-shaven because he wanted to make sure Ravenous recognized him. The guy was on par with a Herald. Focus on winning, worry about introductions after.

We're two issues in, and Lopez is already sharing artist credit. Even for Marvel, that's a really quick bait-and-switch. Fonte leans harder into solid blacks, and Iacono's colors shift to duller or darker shades on those pages. Maybe the latter is just because they're fighting on a messy planet. On the other hand, Lopez makes Cammi look like a middle-aged woman, while Della Fonte doesn't. I don't know how much time has passed since Annihilation, but it can't have been that much.

I'm still not clear on this recurring mention of Nova and the Worldmind having limited power available. This was not a problem the last time I was watching Rider carry the entirety of the Nova Force. Where were they getting the power to "recharge" during the entirety of the Abnett/Lanning run?