As some of you know I am a pet owner, I've had my black lab Sampson for twelve years. Well, you MIGHT know that if you've listening to my podcasts. http://panelbiter.podbean.com/. Anyway to say I am partial to dogs is not a far off assumption and although we've talked about Lockjaw of The Inhumans and Krypto The Super-Dog, there is one comic book dog who wasn't been mentioned. Today's Z-Lister is Marvel Comic's Cosmo The Spacedog.
Cosmo was created by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning in "Nova Vol. 4 #8" in 2007. Cosmo is a Golden Retriever/Labrador Retriever mix from Soviet Russia. In the 1960's, The Soviet Space Program sent Cosmo into space as an experiment, but due to a malfunction the ship wandered off. Cosmo's conception was inspired by Laika; the first dog to go into outer space. The Soviet Space Program took this stray dog from the streets of Moscow, nurtured it, and then sent it on a trip around The Earth's orbit in The Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Richard Rider/Nova-basically a space cop-found himself in a floating sanctuary called Knowhere. Cosmo had been stuck on Knowhere for decades and became mutated by cosmic rays, Cosmo now had psychic abilities and chose to stay on Knowhere as it's guardian, keeping it's stray residents under his protection. Knowhere, as it happens, is the severed head of a Celestial. A Celestial, as it happens, is a being responsible for the creation of the universe. Cosmo and Nova struck up a friendship and were able to protect the residents of Knowhere until Drax The Destroyer and Gamora became possessed by an alien virus and slaughtered many residents in search of Nova.
Despite the altercation with Drax and Gamora, Nova and Cosmo would find themselves teaming up with The Guardians of The Galaxy and during a story called "The Thanos Imperative", Cosmo would be the only soul witness to Star-Lord's death. In his dying words, Star-Lord asked Cosmo to find the strongest beings in the galaxy and form The Annihilators, a team Star-Lord believed The Guardians should have been. Cosmo successfully gathers The Silver Surfer, Ronan the Accuser, Beta Ray Bill, Quasar, and The Gladiator to protect the universe on Star-Lord's behalf.
During a more resent story, a villain named Captain Skaarn tried to seize Knowhere and did so by poisoning Cosmo. Luckily, the new Nova-Sam Alexander-was able to use his cosmic powers to push the poison out of Cosmo and help him defeat Skaarn.
Believe it or not, Cosmo The Spacedog is one of the most powerful telepaths in The Marvel Universe. Rivaling the likes of Professor X, Jean Grey, and Emma Frost. Cosmo is capable of telepathy, telekinesis, psychic barriers, psychic cloaking, levitation, psychic illusions, mind control, memory manipulation, psychic detection, psychic paralysis, and extended longevity. Cosmo can defeat almost any perceivable threat from Earth or beyond-and is a dog.
I really like Cosmo and I want to see him in more stuff. If Bendis' Guardians was as interesting as I wanted it to be Cosmo could have been an awesome inclusion. Maybe it's best he's kept in the background though. He is very powerful. Compared to the rest of the main Guardians team he may overpower everyone! And the concept of him choosing to protect his new home and it's people from cosmic threats is so cool! Mainly because he's just a dog! A psychic dog with a Russian accent! How more loyal can a dog get!? So as far as comic book dogs go, Cosmo is a pretty interesting one to say the least. Granted, I would hate it if my dog could talk. The things he's seen....the things he'd say...maybe those kinds of dogs are best left in space.
Thanks for reading!
Richard Rider/Nova-basically a space cop-found himself in a floating sanctuary called Knowhere. Cosmo had been stuck on Knowhere for decades and became mutated by cosmic rays, Cosmo now had psychic abilities and chose to stay on Knowhere as it's guardian, keeping it's stray residents under his protection. Knowhere, as it happens, is the severed head of a Celestial. A Celestial, as it happens, is a being responsible for the creation of the universe. Cosmo and Nova struck up a friendship and were able to protect the residents of Knowhere until Drax The Destroyer and Gamora became possessed by an alien virus and slaughtered many residents in search of Nova.
Despite the altercation with Drax and Gamora, Nova and Cosmo would find themselves teaming up with The Guardians of The Galaxy and during a story called "The Thanos Imperative", Cosmo would be the only soul witness to Star-Lord's death. In his dying words, Star-Lord asked Cosmo to find the strongest beings in the galaxy and form The Annihilators, a team Star-Lord believed The Guardians should have been. Cosmo successfully gathers The Silver Surfer, Ronan the Accuser, Beta Ray Bill, Quasar, and The Gladiator to protect the universe on Star-Lord's behalf.
During a more resent story, a villain named Captain Skaarn tried to seize Knowhere and did so by poisoning Cosmo. Luckily, the new Nova-Sam Alexander-was able to use his cosmic powers to push the poison out of Cosmo and help him defeat Skaarn.
Believe it or not, Cosmo The Spacedog is one of the most powerful telepaths in The Marvel Universe. Rivaling the likes of Professor X, Jean Grey, and Emma Frost. Cosmo is capable of telepathy, telekinesis, psychic barriers, psychic cloaking, levitation, psychic illusions, mind control, memory manipulation, psychic detection, psychic paralysis, and extended longevity. Cosmo can defeat almost any perceivable threat from Earth or beyond-and is a dog.
I really like Cosmo and I want to see him in more stuff. If Bendis' Guardians was as interesting as I wanted it to be Cosmo could have been an awesome inclusion. Maybe it's best he's kept in the background though. He is very powerful. Compared to the rest of the main Guardians team he may overpower everyone! And the concept of him choosing to protect his new home and it's people from cosmic threats is so cool! Mainly because he's just a dog! A psychic dog with a Russian accent! How more loyal can a dog get!? So as far as comic book dogs go, Cosmo is a pretty interesting one to say the least. Granted, I would hate it if my dog could talk. The things he's seen....the things he'd say...maybe those kinds of dogs are best left in space.
Thanks for reading!
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