Well, that was unusually fast. And after “Nova” was getting such positive reviews!
In a live Next Big Thing call, Marvel revealed that the current creative team of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness would be leaving “Nova” with issue #6, to be replaced by Zeb Wells and Paco Medina. Loeb and McGuinness plan to take the book up to where Nova is introduced at the beginning of “Avengers vs X-Men,” clearing up that weird little strain on continuity, and that Wells and Medina will be taking the book in a direction from there, with Sam having the offer to join the Avengers but also having to explain to his mother where he’s been all this time. Stephen Wacker compared the first arc to a first film, with what Wells and Medina do next as the sequel.
Loeb’s a busy guy, though, with his job running Marvel’s television department, and Wells is the perfect guy to take over writing. After all, if the new Nova is Marvel’s new “Spider-Man” (in the sense that it’s a young hero learning to cope with great power and related responsibility), there’s no one better suited to write Spider-Man than Wells in my book.
Likewise, Medina makes a great transition for McGuinness. While McGuinness is better at the big grandiose action, Medina offers a very similar and more youthful style. This is going to be one of the smoothest creative transitions in the history of recent comics.
So fans of “Nova,” don’t despair. It looks like the book is in good hands.
