"And what is it with the Marvel/Disney glorification of truancy from school, irresponsible use of vast powers, child soldiering, and irresponsible parenting? Is that really the message Marvel/Disney is sending to the particularly dumb, immature, and therefore especially impressionable 7-year-olds at whom this comic book is presumably aimed?" Yeah, Tom! When those kids are empowered with the Nova Force and drop out of third grade to cavort around the galaxy, Marvel will have a lot to answer for!
Strangely enough, it was always all right back when Rich Rider did this in the ’70s…
Hey twogunmojo - henceforth referred to as dickhead - I included the paragraph at the end acknowledging that I realized that NINO was just "dumbed-down juvenile fantasy" in anticipation of dickheads like you who wrongly believe themselves possessed of astute cleverness and rapier-like wit trying to suck-up to Brevoort by making comments like this. So - in a way - you make my point for me by underlining how stupid the entire NINO concept really is. So run along, dickhead, and continue to celebrate the mediocrity that is NINO along with all the rest of the zombies who mindlessly stand up and applaud Brevoort on cue - and when you get a moment - GFY.
And to Brevoort - once again you're totally wrong. Rich Rider was never portrayed as rude to teachers, de-valuing of education, and wantonly truant from school and you know it. Rider was also 17 when he was duly inducted into the Corps via emergency deputization by an officer empowered to induct; and 18 when he went off to fight in the Second Xandar-Skrull War. And besides - I was comparing NINO to the vastly superior Volume IV of Nova anyway. Like I've said many times before - you missed your true calling. You should've been a politician. You fail to address the issues and you let these zombies do your fighting for you and say what you want to say but can't/won't; and you throw out inaccurate statements just so the zombies will stand up and applaud on cue. You're pathetic.
