Anthony's Reviews > Annihilation, Book One

A bit of good and bad here. The prologue and Nova stuff I liked. It gives you a good introduction to the Nova Corps, who are basically space cops (and therefore basically Green Lanterns) and sets up the Annihilation threat for the rest of the story. The only problem is, we dont get much as to the motivation of the Annihilation wave? Like, I get that it'll be addressed later, but they suddenly just turn up and no one thinks to ask why? Maybe it's because there's so much chaos and destruction going on. And I don't mean a long exposition piece, going into the whole history of the Annihilation wave, just a couple of word balloons or caption boxes would have been enough.

And then there's the Drax mini, which I thought was pretty hard to follow and bad. It does set up the modern interpretation of the character, which we're now seeing in the movies and cartoons, but the story itself is a bit dull. He gets shot and is then reborn, without any mention of how or why, and is then suddenly in space (all set for the Annihilation story) without and transition. He's on earth and then the next page we see him on, he's on a prison transport. Am I just wanting to be spoon fed too much here? Is this what writers like Geoff Johns and Bendis have done to me as a reader?