Nova #36

Nova #36 serves as a lead-in to The Thanos Imperative, and the cover by Mike Deodato Jr. makes the stakes feel appropriately cosmic — Richard Rider hovers before a luminous Earth, his black-and-gold Nova Corps uniform crackling with brilliant white energy in both fists. The composition radiates power and resolve, positioning the Human Rocket at the center of what promises to be a galaxy-spanning conflict. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with interior art by Andrea DiVito and colors by Bruno Hang, bring their signature space-opera sensibility to this 2010 chapter of one of Marvel's most ambitious cosmic sagas.