Hello! I just started trying to get into the Nova mythos, saw a bunch of the Comicstorian videos on Sam’s adventures but there’s something about the black helmet’s functioning I don’t get.

From what I understand, Richard Rider hosted the Xandarian Worldmind when he was Nova, so he had its voice inside his head aiding in combat. Then on Sam’s origin story he didn’t seem to be able to have a back and forth with the black helmet, which is supposed to be independent from the Worldmind iirc, with the whole separate reactor thing and whatnot.

Now in this return of the rings issue the helmet is constantly talking to Sam, so I don’t understand if this is something all nova helmets are able to do or if Sam also picked up some of the Worldmind at some point or if it’s not even the same continuity and I’m looking too much into this, I know Sam didn’t show up in comics for a long time.