Unabashed

I’ve had it with all these costume changes. In the first issue of the new Nova series, a fabulously written event occurs in which the Nova Corps are decimated and Richard Rider is the only one left. The Nova World Mind subsequently uploads into Rider, endowing him with all the power of the entire Nova Corps and, just to piss me off, changed his costume. Dammit.

I realize there’s a time to freshen things up, I do. Wolverine going from the yellow to the brown was a good change, but it happened because he did it, not because he got an upgrade in power or something. He didn’t increase in rank and get new stripes. He just switched to brown because he was out of yellow material or something. It was even better when he ditched the costume and just wore his jeans and boots. I don’t so much have a problem with costume changes, I just hate it when the change comes by way of a power boost or some such nonsense. Especially when the current costume is good enough. Where do you stop changing costumes? What if Marvel suddenly changed the Silver Surfer’s look? Or Galactus?

So; for the record: the new Nova costume almost sucks (it does have the cool little glowing chest medallions, but the pointy things on the shoulders and the form-fitting helmet–no), but the new Spider Man costume sucks ENTIRELY. As soon as I saw it I vomited on my foot and shot myself in the face with the power cosmic. (–no need to say it; nerd alert. I know.)

I’m really happy to see Marvel bringing back some of the old-school characters: The Celestials and the Eternals, Moon Knight, Quasar, Nova, Annihilus, Super Skrull, etc. But I wish they would give the old a chance before they update (i.e. downgrade) the costumes. Until they start wearing regular clothes just leave the Underoos alone.

One costume I would like to see changed: The Watcher. Here’s a pitch for Marvel: Uatu, weary of the constant attacks on his beloved Earth, finally gets pissed and kicks a little galactic ass. He’ll have to upgrade his… ahem… robes. He’ll also have to change his name, cause he wouldn’t be watching any more. The new Watcher would be doing. Now if I can just get someone to draw me a bad ass Watcher…