Jeph Loeb OFF Nova ALREADY!

Jeph Loeb is leaving Nova because evidently he has better things to do, in like Hollywood and stuff. The writer probably was bored and wanted to hang out with the people from the Shield tv show without any regard for his comic book fans. Jeph had just rebooted the new Nova named Sam Alexander and forgot he had other work to do. This news is frustrating coming off of a bad week for DC in terms of creative teams in general. A team rebooting a brand new character needs to stick around in order to give the title some legs and show the world what it is really about.

The new team was announced at Marvel’s press call today as Zeb Wells and Paco Medina. While Zeb is an okay writer, this obscure title in the Marvel Universe is doomed without a hit creator watching over the series. Paco Medina’s credentials are the same as Zeb’s; he is a good artist but not a big name in the industry. The only thing that could save this title is if it has a big Marvel movie on the way. Without that boost, there is only a slim chance of the book getting the shot it truly deserves. While all the aforementioned elements do not bode well for the title, Loeb and company had the following to say about the series:

 “People are coming along for the ride,” Loeb continues. “We’ve said from the very beginning that part of the fun of this story is, ‘What would you do if you found Tony Stark’s armor, and you had no way to get to Tony Stark?’ Once you put it on, and in Sam’s case, fly into the moon and crash into the moon, what’s going to happen?”

“We have a perfect place where the story will dovetail into the first time we saw Sam, which was back in the Point One.” Loeb says they’ll be able to “neatly hand off” to Wells and Medina.

“So many times when a book is handed off to the new team, the creative sensibility of that book shifts,” Loeb says. “Zeb’s writing has that same kind of emotion, drama and humor that we want the book to have, and Paco lives in the same kind of world that [original series artist Ed McGuinness] lives in.”

“This is not to say that Ed and I are going away forever and ever,” Loeb continues, saying that the good thing about the Nova concept is that it lends itself naturally to many different stories.

Good luck Nova.