The GOTG became a sort of Avengers Cosmic Lite, watered down by over-humoring, boring dialogue, the “I can put anyone on a team and sell it” mentality that ruined the Avengers franchise for me, and led to such stellar GOTG members such as Iron Man, Ms.

you know because time travel!) a great tradition of second string heroes banding together to save the universe from cosmic level threats.Īnd then the slow descent into mediocrity that followed. Loaded with action, drama, a large dose of humor and some fantastic art, the Guardians of the Galaxy continued (or started. They took the name of Arnold Drake and Gene Colan’s original idea: a team of rebels in the far future, each the final representative of their home planet, fighting a one-sided battle against the galaxy’s conquerors, the Badoon, and kept the core idea of the group, only using current characters in the Marvel Universe.

This is the Guardians of the Galaxy! Abnett and Lanning developed the current interpretation of the team (Starlord, Drax, Groot, and Gamora, plus a few others along the way) during their cosmic epics: Annihilation, Annihilation: Conquest, and the War and Realm of Kings mini series. (*this review originally appears in Bob’s Threat Level Wednesday for Oct 01, 2014)īecause there is finally a Guardians book on the shelf I can read without getting that weird mixture of anger and nausea that hits me when I read the current series, whose current writer, by the way, has been the first person to get me to stop collecting a Guardians book since I picked up Valentino’s #1 in 1991, and went back and got each and every appearance of them.

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