Writer: Gerry Duggan
Artist: Aaron Kuder
Color Artist: Ive Svorcina
Lettering: VC's Cory Petit
Imprint: Marvel Comics
Price: $3.99
Release Date: 5/3/2017
Review By: Carl Hamlin
The Next Great Galactic Adventure
*Score and Non-Spoilers at bottom *
That's right, our favorite
team of galactic adventurers are back together just in time for the release of
the new movie. With our team dealing with issues after being grounded on Earth
will they be able to work together through their next adventure? Let's find
out!
We start this issue on the
impenetrable planet of Citopia and unfortunately for the person trying to make
the sale for protecting valuables it looks like Galactus, the devouer of worlds
decided to show up and everyone goes into panic mode. That was a great
diversionary tactic, as the head opens our team breaks out: time to steal from
an impenetrable city. It seems that only one guard isn't going to make it off
the planet because his lifeboat wouldn't take off, but when he sees the Guardians running
towards them he realizes it's a heist and starts firing at them. This is where
we get to my biggest gripe... Drax the Destroyer is now passive? I mean every
experience I have with this character, including older comics and the movies,
he was pretty much ready to jump into a fight. Lucky Rocket is there to save
the day, even throws out a Scarface reference, although he doesn't know what
Scarface is. Wait... what is baby Groot, what is he going to do in a fight? Oh,
that's right he's a distraction for Gamora to knock out the guard. Now that we
know our team can work together we can move forward to the actual heist.
While Star-Lord is freezing
the vault door he tries to convince Drax to knock it down. Now, how he responds
I kind of like, “... destroying even a simple wall may have untold
consequences, as we will all see together.” I mean, even though I may have a
problem with Drax and his new pacifism that was deep and a tad bit of
foreshadowing to what comes at the end of the book. Star-Lord got the package
and it's time to get out of there fast, of course we have enough time to stop
and stare at a couple having it's-the-end-of-the-world sex, now while Rocket is
laughing as hard as I did it's time to race back to the ship. The Galactus
diversionary ship wasn't made for luxury, so as they speed off back to the
Milano. Time to get paid, as they head off to their rendezvous point, but there
is one rule on the Milano and that's not to mess with the radio, apparently
Peter isn't a Proclaimers fan.
Now in a remote quadrant of
the galaxy everyone seems to think that Peter got the rendezvous point wrong,
when they are swallowed by a huge space fish, which turns out to be the buyers
ship. However the Grandmaster was testing the team for their real mission. The
item they stole was a baby universe, that if released would expand out so fast
it would destroy the universe it was in at the same time. Their actual mission
is to break into the Collectors collection and steal the Hujahdarian Monarch
egg. While the team argues that stealing from the Collector is suicide, he
points out that they already have. So the team takes off, we get a short
explanation from Rocket about why everyone on the team is acting off, that is
when we get hit with a cliffhanger that leaves me waiting on baited breath for
the next issue... Looks like someone is harvesting little Groots, perhaps this
is the reason it is taking Groot so long to regenerate?
Bits and Pieces:
While I came into this issue
not expecting much I was pleasantly surprised by what was delivered. I had a
few issues with the art, it wasn't enough to lower my score for this book. It
was a fun read full of humor and action and with the way that this book ended I
can't wait to see what Duggan has to offer us with this ongoing Guardians book.
7/10
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