Al Ewing continues to deliver the goods on Guardians and the art team’s pretty flarkin’ fantastic, too.I’m loving the developments with Star-Lord. I wholeheartedly approve of Ewing’s attempt to sort out Peter’s somewhat contradictory origins. The character developments with Moondragon, Phyla, Nova, Hercules and Groot were all great too. A superhero book with genuine character growth? Heavens to Betsy!It was a shame this volume got dragged into the King in Black crossover but I suppose it would h...

Empyre may be done, but the mess it left behind will linger for...several issues(?) You start off with an intergalactic 'whodunit' that only Rocket Raccoon can solve. We get to see the Guardians dealing with the new normal (some better than others). This Prince of Power is....something?Nova is dealing with some serious PTSD. It's so severe that he is Zoom calling a therapist light years away while preparing for battle. Wonder if she charges by the light year...Team gets shaken down as they are f...

I struggled with the previous Guardians of the Galaxy volume as it expanded and split the team and offered odd new takes on several characters. Basically, it made no sense to me, so I avoided Here We Make Our Stand. But then I saw some good reviews from other reviewers I trust, so...Here We Make Our Stand is pretty darn solid. Surprise! It's character-focused, often funny, and offers a number of scenes that are basically recaps of what's come before. That kind of stuff is my catnip as the forget...

An unexpectedly awesome entry! One of the coolest, most entertaining Guardians titles I've read. It got off to a rough start with a big diplomatic dealie and - NO - Guardians! Then (spoiler) Quill gets killed. Everybody is super bummed. I'm super bummed! The crew tries to carry on but they're devastated. ... But then it turns out Quill is still alive - in another dimension! And time goes on forever... and after 100 years in this alternate dimension - he basically becomes one with the universe an...

Guardians get fun as heck in this "Who done it" volume. The first half is a lot of fun. Trying to find out who the bad guy is in the meeting room of all the different species in the universe. Rocket being the "detective" was great. Nova getting his own issue to deal with PDST and such is wonderful. Peter going through a really trippy...trip? Was pretty great. The ending was okay but the very last page was awesome and made me excited. Overall another really solid volume. Ewing just gets what it t...

This book continues to be excellent! Ewing’s Noh-Varr is my personal favorite from this run, and Noh gets some shining moments this volume. Rocket has a fantastic issue too, as does Star-Lord. Yes, this is the volume that introduces bisexual/poly Peter Quill AND the Noh-Varr/Hercules ship. Read it!! 5/5 stars.

Most of the 4 stars is for the Nova plot line. Always liked him as a character and I like the way he is portrayed here. He doesn't have any amazing heroic feats though.There is a weird bit with Star-Lord which I don't think enhances his character, he gets a new weapon and a strange view of life.There was a nice bit with Rocket in detective mode which was cool.An ongoing sub plot with Moondragon and Phylla.Most of the other characters do very little, or are forgettable.Oh it also gets dragged int...

2,5 stars.

"The Guardians is an ad-hoc group of mercenaries and trauma survivors operating out of bars and hospital facilities."

Love the dive into Gamora and Richard relationship "post Peter." Love the more lighthearted murder mystery with Rocket. LOVE the Peter issue. (Trying not to spoil.) Ewing did just as good with this King in Black tie-in as he did with the S.W.O.R.D. ones. They don't feel tedious & are still enjoyable without having to read the main event.Again... great action, funny, & LGBT+ rep like you wouldn't believe.

Man what a let down. Even tho I only semi liked the last volume, I still had some hope and a small bit of excitement coming into this volume. It was all for not. I think the only thing I liked was when Rocket got his detective on. Had fun with that even tho it ended real easily. I haven’t read much GOTG so there were things Ewing was doing in here that was lost to me. Like who was the old man who kept telling Peter he made him a Star-Lord? Last volume had that weird issue 3 and this volume had i...

Where the first volume took a while to bed in, this one starts strong – a peace conference to decide the fate of the post-Empyre galaxy, with Marvel Boy dressed as peak Adam Ant, because why not? The subplot follows a telepathic domestic where the point at issue is one partner merging with an alternate world self without consulting their lover. This is exactly the kind of meticulously thought-through high strangeness for which I come to an Al Ewing comic, and there's more to come. The Guardians'...

So good.This is probably my favorite iteration of the Guardians so far, I think. Like on so many other books, Ewing just writes in a way that feels "for me." My guess is that he's around my age and read a lot of the same formative stuff that I have? Or we just have similar sensibilities? I don't know for sure, but just about every book he's on seems to trend to the same kind of continuity-rich and character-driven stuff that I loved growing up and still love now. I dig Peter's redesign like...a

This was interesting, it starts off with whatever Nova is going through and what had happened to him and he takes counselling which is good and then the whole stuff with whatever happened to Peter while he was lost in some other dimension in Morinius and we see some interesting changes here, he was there for 100 and more years and then he returns. Meanwhile at the Proscenium a Pan world treaty is happening and an interesting clash with the profiteer, some war stuff going on and more and then som...

4.5, pretty good but got a little involved in some events that I wasn't very excited to read, but still a really good volume

With Empyre out of the way, the galaxy that the Guardians are meant to guard is looking very different. That's the impetus for the first arc of this book, which is a locked room murder mystery type deal in which the team attempt to ensure galactic diplomacy as well as not murder each other. Fun times abound, of course.The latter half deals with an outbreak of fighting across the universe, not least of which is the result of the King In Black trying to murder everything on his way to Earth. There...

Loving Al Ewing’s take on the Guardians. Definitely has a more modern feel than the DnA stuff I’m reading now.

Collects Guardians of the Galaxy (2020) issues #6-12In the middle of reading this collection, I found myself saying, "I just don't care about these characters." I think I actually mean this version of the characters, because this book still features characters I previously cared about. I've been reading this title, with each of its different writers, for close to ten years now, and I believe this is my least favorite run. There's something about this story that is making it hard for me to invest...

3.5 Stars.At the end of the last Volume of Guardians, Quill sacrificed himself to trap the Gods of Olympus. As readers, we know that these things don't last very long, but I never expected him to be back so soon...Highlights:- After seeing Nova in Therapy, he goes to a meeting of galactic leaders, which as the sole remaining member of the Nova Corps, he has to go to. Regarding the events of Empyre, the leaders are discussing new stipulations for the Pan-Galactic Treaty. Hostilities increase when...

Another solid volume but not as much fun as Ewing’s first. Deals with the aftermath of Empyre but it’s not necessary, thankfully, to get caught up. Nice focus on Rider and Quill’s strange trippy journey back (you knew it was coming), nice to see him actually changed, plus he’s finally canonized as queer (but anyone who dares an alien is queer anyway). Ewing’s cosmic marvel is very queer and I’m very here for it. Takara’s art was disappointing but thankfully we get back to Cabal for most of the i...