[Kirathis]

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

Whoever said Richard Rider needs to come back is alright by me. I miss that dude.

Hell yes!

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

We can totally blame Bendis for not bringing Richard back. When Nova died at the end of the Thanos Imperative in 2011 it was a grand, heroic death and I was content thinking they'd bring him back in a couple of years, instead they introduced a new Nova who was yet another teen hero. I gave Sam Nova a read though and the character generally grew on me but in my mind I was always thinking "bring Rich back." Then Bendis took over the GotG book which became a hollow shell of what it used to be with DnA but they said he would address what happened to Nova and I was hopeful for an explanation of return. Instead we got this crummy drawn out story where Rich sacrificed himself, again, to save Star-Lord, Drax, and Thanos. When fans complained about it Bendis was all "don't blame me, Abnett and Lanning were the ones who had him die," except that wasn't the point, we already knew he was dead we just wanted him revived and Bendis totally wasted the opportunity to do it.

Ideally Richard would come back and remain Nova Prime but he'd order Sam to remain and help protect Earth while he got to work rebuilding the Nova corps. In my perfect fanfic world Rich would be revived by a Death who is grateful he saved Thanos from the Cancerverse and once he's back he maybe still retains some of the juice from absorbing that cosmic cube so even as he disperses the Nova force to new members he still gets to be as super-powerful as he was when he he held almost all of the force. All of this would also bring back the Worldmind which I enjoyed as a companion character.

Totally agree! I would also love a Nova and Cosmo sort of buddy series like they had for a bit in the prior Nova series but then I'm slightly biased as they are two of my favorite characters.