El segundo volumen de la mayor saga cósmica de la historia de Marvel. Golpeado y al borde de la muerte, Nova se prepara para regresar a la batalla. ¿Podrá sostener la pesada carga del legado de Xandar? ¿Podrá siquiera seguir con vida antes de que las huestes de Annihilus acaben con él? La Oleada Aniquiladora ha señalado también a los que fueran heraldos de Galactus. Perseguido por seres tan poderosos como él, Estela Plateada debe encontrar la manera de reunir a los antiguos siervos del Devorador de Mundos.
Contiene: Annihilation: Nova 1-4 y Annihilation: Silver Surfer 1-4
Keith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics.
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.
Nueva parada en Aniquilación, el evento cósmico que cambió el Universo Marvel para dejarlo más o menos igual (porque todos sabemos, por Stan Lee, sobre la importancia de la apariencia o sensación del cambio y no del cambio en sí); eso no resta para que Aniquilación sea uno de los momentos más conocidos de la Casa de las Ideas en las últimas décadas.
Después de su supuesto prólogo, este segundo tomo de Aniquilación recoge dos miniseries dedicadas la primera a Nova y la segunda a Estela Plateada. Como en el primer tomo, el resultado es desigual, pero aquí no tenemos solo a Keith Giffen (como en el primero), sino que contamos con dos autores que sí marcaron una auténtica diferencia en el cosmos de Marvel: Dan Abnett y Andy Lanning, los autores tras la reinvención de Guardianes de la Galaxia de la que tanto tomaron las películas de James Gunn y, en general, la Saga del Infinito de Marvel Studios.
El tomo arranca con la miniserie de Nova. Tras que la ola aniquiladora de Annihilus haya arrasado todo el planeta Xandar, Richard Rider, el Nova humano, es el último superviviente. El Mundomente, una especie de gran ordenador con todo el poder la cultura xandariana, se fusiona con él para mantenerlo con vida y buscar un nuevo enclave que haga renacer al cuerpo Nova. Es decir, para ser algo así como su conciencia... Pero ¡oh, sorpresa!, Richard no está pasando un buen momento (es lo que tiene que liquiden todo un planeta ante ti y tú no puedas hacer nada. Reniega de sus nuevos poderes y teme no estar a la altura. Cuando se cruza con Drax y Cammi, a quien conocimos en el primer tomo, se verá involucrado en una batalla contra las hordas de Annihilus (¡revancha!). La misión de proteger a unos refugiados hará que Richard se alíe con Quasar y tengan que emprender una batalla desesperada para salvar al máximo número de personas posible.