Annihilation Book 1

Back in the Bronze Age, Marvel gave us epic space opera the likes of which no one had seen before in comic books. Guys like Jim Starlin gave us interstellar battles that had the Avengers and Captain Mar-vell in the thick of the Kree/Skrull War. We saw the Avengers, Warlock and Captain Mar-Vell battle endlessly against the mad titan Thanos. But it was a long while before we would get anything as epic as those classic confrontations. Then came Keith Giffen, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with "Annihilation" and once again, Marvel proved that no one does Space Opera with as much wit, fun and pure frenetic energy.Annihilation Volume 1 sets up the story. Bursting out of the Negative Zone with a vengeance and a massive armada is Annihilus, intent on wiping out all life in the known universe. One of the byproducts of his attack causes several powerful beings to be released from an ancient interstellar prison called The Kyln. One is Drax the Destroyer who ends up on earth with several dangerous inmates including several skrulls. Two other inmates were imprisoned by Galactus himself. Annihilus next salvo takes out the entire Nova Corps, save for one...Richard Rider, the last Nova Centurion. Over the course of the story Nova will unite with Drax the Destroyer, Quasar and a young earth girl named Cammi.The story is a lot of fun. It's entertaining and well paced. The majority of Book One focuses on the rebirth of Drax The Destroyer, the destruction of the Nova Corps and Nova Centurion Richard Rider and Quasar's efforts to survive a confrontation with Annihilus.This is just the beginning of an epic story. Highly recommended.

Being a person who did most of my comic reading in the early to mid ninties, I found the revamped personas of Drax, and Nova really refreshing here. I just received my paperback edition of this collection last week, and after a couple reads i can say that i really enjoyed this. I love all things Thanos and Silver Surfer related, so i've got a pretty good grasp on Drax and his past. But here under some pretty extraordinary circumstances his new persona is a little edgier and hes someone you can actually root for. (unlike giant super powered retard of yesteryear). I'm not really sure why they feel the need to stick him with an emo version of Jubilee, but shes not too annoying. I never really liked Nova or Quasar much, but in this collection you see a different side of them. I've only known them as throw away characters from the 10 years ago, but here they are developed characters you can appreciate. The art is top notch for the most part. The Super Skrull and Thanos make appearances and you really get the feeling something big is coming. I can't wait to read volume two of this series and highly recommend it to anyone who loves seeing these old rejects rejuvinated and realized to their full potential.

It is truly a story of complexity in its characters buy not in plot. Which is great. Action abounds, dialogue is great and can't wait for more. Love the character development as well

This first volume of Marvel's "Annihilation" event collects the "Drax the Destroyer" and "Annihilation: Nova" four-issue mini-series and the "Annihilation Prologue" one-shot. The Drax and Prologue issues were written by "52" architect Keith Giffen. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning share writing credit for the Nova issues.A prison dredge carrying Drax and alien super criminals crashes in tiny Coot's Bluff, Alaska. After seemingly killing Drax, the aliens chillingly enslave the locals in an attempt to rebuild their spacecraft. Meanwhile, the planet-crippling Annihilation Wave of insect-like spaceships reaches the Nova Corps home planet of Xandar. Drax and his new human sidekick Cammi encounter Nova and later Quasar as the Wave threatens further devastation.This volume also intersperses about a dozen "Xandar Worldmind Database" capsules of key characters and plot elements and closes with eight pages of sketches and preliminary page layouts. This is a good value for Amazon's current price of under $17. I ordered the second volume the same night that I finished reading this first one.Nova starred in his own 25 issue (mostly mediocre) 1970s title that has been reprinted as a "Marvel Essentials" volume.

A fantastic and fun read.It's a great start to get on track with Annihilation: Conquest and Guardians of The Galaxy. I loved everything except the Annihilation Prologue. The only issue with the prologue is the quality of art, the art seemed very sub-par and lacked the professional quality in most comics. Even old original Silver Surfer was better drawn. Over-all it was still a great read.

Good stuff, loving the art and storyline so far. Heroes can't win all the time and this shows the challenges and sacrifices that are made to secure the universe

This is a fun way to kick off a universal event. Looking forward to reading book two. Loved Nova's arc too.

Well though out. Reads like a DC book or a novel by a popular author. Finally someone at marvel knows how to write SyFy rather than soaps.

Nice to have the outer space setting. Haven't read much about these characters so far and Nice was highly enjoyable.

Very very enjoyable read. NOTE - this book contains the Draw the Destroyer mini series, Nova mini series and annihiliation prologue. Great start and a must read for any Marvel fan!