It’s been a pretty slow news week on the SW front so I’ve decided to go ahead and throw this up on the jumbotron for you all to take a look at.  Star Wars is a big part of my fandom but it will always be second to my first love of geekdom, comic books.

Marvel Comics has never really been my thing.  I will freely admit that I am and have always been the quintessential DC fanboy, so most of my knowledge of Marvel probably isn’t any more than the average comic book fan.

There is one caveat to that, though, and it’s one that I’ve only discovered in the past couple of years.  At the same time that Marvel was rolling out what many people consider a landmark in comic events, Civil War, they were also running a different sprawling event, Annihilation.

Annihilation was a story line that was concerned with the cosmic level setting and characters that generally don’t get much more than cameos in the regular comics.  Characters like the Silver Surfer or Captain Marvel generally show up occasionally and do something but they don’t tend to stick around all that much.

This event was the spotlight for these characters.  One cosmic level entity, Annihilus, is trying to take over the galaxy and he’s being opposed by the heroes of the cosmic setting, many of them that most readers either don’t know or they don’t remember.  The primary characters of the story are former Heralds of Galactus and a really pretty old character that nobody had done anything with in quite a while, Nova.

To any of you out there that don’t typically like comic books but do love a pretty good sci-fi story, I would recommend Annihilation to any of you.  I will say, however, that there are somet things that reader needs to know in order to understand the situation.

That’s what this post is for, it’s probably going to be pretty long.  The actual primer starts after the jump.

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