[En Sabah Nerd]

@TBM:
Re: Nova; Yeah I don't think the character (that is his personality and traits and not the idea of the character) had much else to develop anymore but a continued series of adventures could still have been a good read. His "death" was okay to me at the time it happened since it was a heroic sacrifice to end the threat of the big purple knuckle-chinned Titan once and for all (well as much as once and for all can mean in comics). To me it was Bendis' "explanation" in his GotG run which ruined the gesture. Here's hoping that the new Nova teases from Marvel are a good, well done return for Rich and not more misleading garbage.

Re: Annihilation and other events; yeah the main titular event was better than Conquest but Conquest did successfully lay out the roots for a lot of the cosmic stuff to come and showed just how dangerous Ultron can be when not confined to Earth's technological limitations. I think Thanos Imperative's biggest problem is the problem shared by too many event books where just so damn much is happening with so many characters that the overall resolution feels rushed.

Re: Starlin's treatment; I think most people didn't even actually read the recent Starlin OGNs since they were OGNs and a lot of people seem to skip on those nowadays. Not like before, lots of people read the old OGNs like The Death of Captain Marvel and God Loves, Man Kills (which is one of my favorite X stories) back in the day. So that may be a part of why you don't see people talking about how godly Thanos was in those. I think another part of it is that so many people consider Jim Starlin to be Marvel's godfather of cosmic stories so they accept anything he writes as being the way it is, especially for a character like Thanos which he created. So it'd be like if Jack Kirby rose from the dead and came back to writing Marvel wherein he goes on to write that Captain America's serum also gives him laser powers and flight but he didn't know until just then. A lot of people would just be like "cool, well Kirby made the character (with Joe Simon) so he can add that to him." Sorta like how back in the day Superman just kept getting stronger and stronger but it was just accepted as the way it was.
I sorta got that version of Warlock being so stupid powerful since he held the entire power of another reality within him and in the end he was inserted to replace the deceased Living Tribunal of Earth-616 so he has kinda been sidelined and is no longer Warlock. I'm pretty sure Adam is just as powerful as he was in DnA's run now again (since the Tribunal Adam brought back the Adam of 616), a crazy powerful cosmic sorcerer type deal but not snap-of-a-finger reality changing powerful anymore. Thanos is pretty weak though right now since Carol Danvers took him on with a fairly small team and averted his scheme which is a margin away from how Starlin wrote him. Captain Marvel is immensely powerful yeah and she had a team but it seemed like Thanos was pretty low compared to his usual self. Like I said though cosmic Marvel just hasn't been the same since DnA gave it up and a big part of the new set up seems to be wildly fluctuating power levels for all characters involved. Of course I'm sure somebody will think I'm just ranting like an old man about how things were better done before.