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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9780785129035
ISBN number: 0785129030
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: December 19, 2007
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 82002
Studio: Marvel Comics
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The epic collection of the cosmic event concludes! One empire has fallen. Two heroes are dead. It all comes together here! Individually, the Silver Surfer, Super-Skrull, Ronan and Nova have faced down the Annihilation Wave...and lost! Now, they must unite those who remain or die by Annihilus' hand! The Annihilation has only begun! Plus: Get caught up on all the players in the Annihilation event - Annihilus, Nova, Ronan, the Silver Surfer, the Super-Skrull, Thanos and more - courtesy of the Xandarian Worldmind files of the Nova Corps! Collecting Annihilation #1-6, Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus #1-2, and the Annihilation: The Nova Corps Files handbook.
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Annihilation succeeds where Marvel's Civil War failed. Civil War was boring, poorly written, and hard to swallow. Annihilation in comparison is a great book that actually has some believability to it and a real sense of jeopardy for the heroes involved. Plus, it breathes some new life into some cosmic heroes/villains that have been on the back burner far too long at Marvel.
I highly recommend this book.
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Marvel's third of three "Annihilation" volumes collects the six-issue 2006 eponymous mini-series as well as two Heralds of Galactus issues. Keith Giffen's main Annihilation story concludes as the combined force of Nova, Silver Surfer, Super Skrull, Ronan, Drax, Gamora and the like make their climactic stand against Annihilus. Thanos and Galactus also feature prominently. Artist Andrea Divito and colorist Laura Villari provide artwork of a high quality with some majestic planetscapes.
Unfortunately, this book is padded with 46 pages of "Xandar Worldmind Database" capsules of key characters and plot elements. This much filler merits a lower list price. Though enjoyable, the Annihilation series did not match the expectations garnered by the hype and included too much auxiliary material in the three eponymous volumes. I do not plan to follow the subseqent "Annihilation: Conquest" series.
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Annihilus is forever!
Hearing all the raves for Annihilation, Marvel's event in the spaceways, I got the last two trades for it.
Collecting Annihilation #1-6, Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus #1-2 and Annihilation: Nova Corps. Files, BOOK THREE sees the conclusion to the event, and let me tell you this: it does NOT disappoint.
There's so much that goes on in Annihilation, I'll give you a broad rundown on why it's worth your 17 bucks.
-GRAND-SCALE MOMENTS: You can tell that the Annihilation War is epic. Gods (Galactus) are desecrated. Civilizations (Xandar, House of Fiyero, Skrull Empire)are destroyed. Pariahs (Ronan the Accuser) are restored. But best of all, these radical changes are ADHERED TO. This means the change in the status quo REMAINS the change - if the Supreme Intelligence is killed, then it STAYS dead. You can count on artistic integrity from writer Keith Giffen.
-STRONG CHARACTERS, STRONG RELATIONSHIPS: Keith Giffen is an expert in garnering emotional investment. Whether it's showing Drax's fervor to kill Thanos or Nova's need for revenge in the name of Nova Corps., you'd have a hard time NOT caring about them. The villains have wonderful personalities as well: megalomaniacs (Annihilus) are absolutely, endearingly in fact, fixated on destroying everything and ruling what remains, while strategists (Thanos of Titan) inject sardonic wit into the epic, while heralds (Ravenous) see the punishment for their crimes!
Each character has their own story within the Annihilation story, adding depth to the epic.
The only complaints I have of this book is that artist Andrea DiVito is a slight step down from Annihilation: Silver Surfer artist Renato Arlem, and that Annihilation: Nova Corps. Files (an encyclopedia, essentially) is dry and unenjoyable.
Also, there's a great number of characters involved in Annihilation. It might be confusing to keep track of them all, so don't read this book unless you've read at least one of the other trades, or the major plot points from a website or blog. Try out Book 1 to see if you like the flavor, and decide then to embrace it or not. If you embrace it, you're definitely in for a hell of a ride.
Overall, strong plots with well-written characterization. Marvel in space is looking mighty bright, and your 17 bucks are definitely not wasted here.
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This is the last part of the Annihilation story and the conclusion and wrap-up of Annihilus's attack on our (Marvel) universe. I enjoyed all three volumes of the story, but Book 3 not as much as Book 2. This is not to say the story ended badly; in fact I thought it had a great Marvel Sci-fi, exciting, universe altering ending. I just think Book 2 had more action, and the wrap-up stories at the end of Book 3 didn't excite me, while spending time setting up future series.
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I read a lot of positive reviews on Amazon about how cool this series was and how it blew Marvel's "Civil War" series out of the water. Maybe that comparison alone should have been enough to scare me off. Anyway, as a kid, I read pretty much every single comic Marvel put out between 1963-79, and I was well versed in their many attempts at ultra-cosmic, super-duper, mind-blowing meta-fiction from the 1970s. I dutifully consumed all the books with third-rate characters such as Drax the Destroyer, Moondragon, Star Lord, Nova, Darkseid (uh, I mean, Thanos), the Eternals, etc., and more sympathetic (but no less dreary) headliners such as Warlock and Captain Marvel... A youth well wasted.
Anyway, I was willing to give this series a shot and even got all tingly as I lined the big, thick books up on my shelf and got ready for a week or so of super-cosmic zip-zapping. The introductory book, showing the beginning of the "annihilation wave" invasion coming from the alternate-universe Negative Zone, had as an upside the wiping out of the cheesy Green Lantern-ripoff "Nova Corps," and set the stage for the rest of the series. Book Two had one relatively strong plotline, with the quest of the amoral, battle-hardened Super Skrull, as well as a Silver Surfer story that, while it was a chore to get through, was still relatively interesting. Book Three was just awful, though. The uber-cosmic war ground slowly to a plodding end. The invasion's leader, the buglike Annihillus, has never been that interesting, and he proved utterly boring and unimpressive here, although the entire series was supposed to hinge on his creepy, unhuman badness. And yet: yawn. It was a readable plotline, but just barely. The coda, a miniseries featuring the various surviving heralds of Galactus -- Firelord, Silver Surfer and a couple of other utterly forgettable losers -- was so, so, so, so, so very bad, as lame and paper-thin as anything ever published in the '70s. Books One and Two were okay, but it's really hard to say whether it's even worth it to pick up Volume 3, even to see how it all turns out. This was one of the most leaden, sluggish comics I've read in a long, long time. Oh, well. Live and learn. (Axton)
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