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Annihilation vol 1: Complete Collection s/c


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Annihilation vol 1: Complete Collection s/c back

Keith Giffen, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Mitch Breitweiser, Kev Walker, Scott Kolins, Greg Titus

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Page 45 Review by Stephen

Nova: "Drax?"
Drax: "Yeah?"
Nova: "Any relation to Drax The Destroyer?"
Drax "No. That's some other guy."
Cammi: "Taller dude. Much taller."
Nova: "So, no history of destroying in your past?"

The first collection of Marvel's decade-old foray into outer space crash-lands on Earth, as Drax The Destroyer escapes from a space prison along with a shape-shifting Skrull and a couple of monstrous purple twins to cause a certain degree of upheaval in small-town Alaska. There Drax undergoes a bit of an evolution after he bumps into Cammi, a young girl with a fine line in pithy put-downs. She ends up accompanying him across the universe which is where the Annihilation saga properly kicks off. Nova himself gets a make-over when his base of operations is wiped out, and cautiously accepts Drax and Cammi as companions.

Mitch Breitweiser's contribution to the first chapters (coloured to complementary perfection by Brian Reber) is an equally sturdy but grainy version of PLANETARY's John Cassady, and Renato Arlem (coloured with well chose contrasts by June Chung) in no slouch in space, with a terrific sense of scale when the Silvered One surfs over a dirty-brown industrial planet or when the insatiable, drink-'em-dry Devourer of Worlds comes to call.

Seriously, Mars Confectionary missed out on quite the trick when they failed to secure Galactus's endorsement for the Milky Way, which he at least can eat between meals in its entirety without ruining his appetite.

Meanwhile Lanning and Abnett turn Drax's old reputation into a highly diverting running gag:

Nova: "This is Drax."
Quasar: "Drax?"
Drax: "Just Drax."
Nova: "Who may or may not have a past in destroying."
Quasar: "Didn't you used to be taller?"
Cammi: "It was a phase. He grew out of it."

I've not read the rest, sorry, and wrote the skeletal structure of this ten years ago.

It's always sold very well in the meantime, though!

Reprints DRAX THE DESTROYER #1-4, ANNIHILATION PROLOGUE then ANNIHILATION: NOVA #1-4, ANNIHILATION: SILVER SURFER #1-4 and ANNIHILATION: SUPER-SKRULL #1-4.
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