text: Grimm refers to the Knowhere Corps as “space cops” which apparently, he must be doing a lot lately as Rocket says he doesn’t need to prefix everything with “space.” Yotat swears to get his revenge on Drax and his friends.
  The Royal Guard, finally, arrives to get Quill to safety. Quill can’t believe that they wait until two threats are taken care of, before getting him off the battlefield. Quill wants Yotat to be arrested, and he wants Hala to be arrested too.
  Quill and Pryde turn to where Hala should be, still stuck in the ground, but she’s no longer there. Few have survived being phased through the ground. I know Thor was able to do it. Quill wants Hala found, and now!
  Quill and Pryde find Gamora, who Pryde has so much respect for. I can’t wait to get scenes of these two dames together!
  Later. Gamora wakes up in a hospital room, with baby tree Groot at her bedside. I like these two together.
  Quill is being told that he is no longer going to be President. He doesn’t quite pick up on that, so Pryde has to explain it to him. I guess that means we are never going to get Queen Pryde, like I always wanted. I do like Quill calling them jerks.
  Pryde phases Quill and herself through the wall, outside and to the ground. I don’t like how the green consult hates on Pryde, screw that jerk!
  Look how happy the team is in that middle panel! Gosh, I really do enjoy this creative team and this entire team! I miss enjoying a monthly title like this.
  Grimm makes an awesome Hichhiker’s Guide to the Universe, but he’s the only Earth person who gets the reference. I like to think that Pryde got it. Thompson and Quill don’t get the reference, they don’t read.
  The Negative Zone. We’re Full Circle. It’s Just Rock-Solid Storytelling. The Brood Queen took no effort in having Spartax denounce their king. Annihilus is very impress.
  Frunta’s House of Self-Defensery. He has only a two-star rating in Drogon’s Market Guide. He thinks it’s because his competition on the other side of the market is spamming him with negative reviews. But it is really his sister. She drinks.
  Such a great way to introduce (he’s new to me, at least) Frunta, the weapon seller. Yotat the Destroyer, and two friends, come into the store – they are looking for Drax. Frunta only sells him weapons, so he doesn’t really know where Drax is. There is an emergency news break, Spartax is under attack. Frunta shouts that must be where Drax is, but Yotat isn’t happy about this development. Yotat slices Frunta’s head, clear off. In only three pages, we really got to know Frunta and now, I’m going to miss that guy.
  Before these three space goons can go far, a messenger Brood tells Yotat that the Brood Queen wants to speak with him.
  In Spartax’s Orbit. Quill is losing his mind, he wants someone to rescue him, so that he can fight for his planet.
  Spartax. Royal Court. Hala is making very short work of the Royal Court. After she’s done with them, she starts tearing into buildings.
  I could really go for a Kitty & Rocket buddy title, the two of them have some great chemistry. They have a very fun exchange of “flu-ish” and “foolish.” She loves and hates him, so much. He starts to get annoyed that she is always wanting to include Quill – he left the team and Rocket is fine with that. Rocket thinks that Quill must be dead, as Hala really hates him.
  Kitty goes over to check on Grimm. She checks on Drax, who grabs her by the throat. Kitty must be hurting, as she doesn’t phase through his grasp.
  Drax is trying to figure out why Quill is in orbit – even though Kitty just explained Hala’s motivations. She wants Quill to see his adopted planet be destroyed. Rocket can understand Hala’s motivations. Drax states that Gamora really isn’t doing well. Venom offers up that he isn’t doing well, either.
  Pryde suggests that they need to get a ship and rescue Quill. Pryde tells Drax that he is not rejoining the fight, they are regrouping. Pryde’s plan is to get Quill, create a plan and bounce Hala into the sun. Grimm has woken up, and wants to help accomplish her goals.
  The Guardians get to the ship dock (is that the term?) and Hala has destroyed all the ships. Which is pretty smart. Space ship dock? Space dock? Pryde asks if Rocket can repair one of them, of course he can!
  With one page turn, Rocket and Groot have fixed a spaceship. Groot waves the team over. Pryde tells Venom to cover them. Drax isn’t happy that they are not fighting back.
  Pryde wants Rocket to put the ship into cloak mode, they are not high enough yet. I didn’t even know that was a necessary element for cloaking. They didn’t deal with that on Star Trek the Next Generation.
  Hala has spotted the Guardians, which must be super easy, as there shouldn’t be any spaceships in the air.
  Grimm wants a second shot at Hala, but Pryde can’t ask that of him. Before he can jump out of the ship, Gamora takes the lead.
  Hala stands over Gamora, triumphant. Hala keeps following the ship, gets up to Quill’s pod ship and breaks that in half. We see that the Guardians’ ship is still flying on, so they must have picked him up.
  Issue opens with Hala’s reaction to having her home planet, Hala – the Kree’s homeworld. I imagine she has another name, but it makes it a tad complicated that her name is the same name as her home planet. I ‘get’ it is an homage but ooof, it isn’t great. The Kree, it turns out, have been saving the galaxy for longer than anyone really knows. I always think of the Kree as being slightly better than the Skrulls and slightly worst than the Shi’ar. Also, that we wouldn’t have Inhumans, if it wasn’t for the Kree.
  Hala would have been there, when the planet exploded (during Black Vortex) but the Supreme Intelligence sent her away, to the far reaches of the galaxy. She is the last Accuser.
  She isn’t happy that Spartax survived (single-handedly by Kitty Pryde) and her planet didn’t. So she is now on Spartax, to make them pay.
  StarPryde is the first Guardian to attempt to take Hala down. Her phasing through Hala’s gun, didn’t short circuit it.
  Groot is wounded, as he jumped in front of Quill – which I missed in the image before. Quill reveals that the giant multi-page narration slash monologue, was spoken (thought?) in Kree-ian(?) so no one present knows Hala’s motivations. Rocket understood everything and quickly states that she is mad that her homeworld was destroyed.
  Grimm and Pryde have a great conversation about how it is okay for male hero characters to hit female villain characters, as someone has to stop the villain and genders shouldn’t come into the equation. Pryde didn’t like that Grimm called Hala, a broad. Which is one of my favorite words to describe a lady – as it sounds so old fashion but I have to stop using the term. I don’t want to be sexist.
  Rocket states that this reminds him of a dream he had, he’s having some deja vu. Pryde didn’t realize he dreams or that raccoons dream.
  The Royal Brigade shows up, which annoys Quill as his friend, Groot, took the hit that one of them should have taken for him. Quill orders the brigade to aid to Groot and Gamora. They are not sure if they can help Groot, he’s a tree – they don’t have tree doctors.
  Quill wants Lady Hala locked up, the brigade tells him that they have the right to kill her on the spot. I wonder if they actually could kill her? Quill says no to that idea, he wants her to see the inside of a courtroom – which seems like an odd thing to want to see. Are they going to go through the discovery process? Then maybe mediation, after that?
  Drax picks up the weapon Hala was using, he would like to keep the blaster staff thingie. Pryde tells him to put it down. The weapon, naturally and of course, goes off in his hands – causing a gigantic explosion.
  The brigade, the idiots that they are, open fire on Drax – forgetting that he is a friend to their president. He does drop the weapon.
  Hala starts speaking English, as she reveals that she knows who he is. She wants to destroy his world, before killing him. Since he has two worlds, she’s going to destroy Spartax AND Earth! Good luck with that second one, lady!
  The issue ends with Spartax surrounded by a force field. I imagine, she doesn’t win – or if she does, that the Guardians were also taken off planet.
  Next issue’s cover promises Gamora v Drax, I suppose there can only be the one green team member – which is odd as they have been teammates for years now. Is it racist to say that they are both green? Should I be viewing them as just people?
  We begin the first of two All New All Different Marvel titles (the other is Extraordinary X-Men) that I am guarantee to be buying. So fun to start on the ground floor with something like this.
  The Negative Zone. If you know anyone from here, you’ve made a huge life mistake somewhere. Annihilus and the Brood Queen are having a meeting, more were expected to join – the rest of the Kings and Queens of the Galaxy. Even though eight months have passed, it seems like none of the power vacuums have been filled. J’Son is out of power (and Peter Quill didn’t get the invite, I suppose), Supreme Intelligence hasn’t recovered from Black Vortex, Gladiator seems to be ignoring the invitation and the Chitauri were not invited. So of the entire galaxy, there are only six people to make up the Space Cabal. Without missing a beat, the Brood Queen wants to split the galaxy in two.
  The Milky Way Galaxy. Home to a lot of things. Including you . . . and all of your stuff. Totally worth guarding. Bendis shows up, right away, that he totally gets Ben Grimm – formally of the Fantastic Four. He always wanted to be an astronaut. Sure, Reed took him to alternate dimensions and timeless, even space on an occasion – but Grimm has never had an etensive stay in space. Well, on the original Battleworld – Post Original Secret Wars.
  When he needs them, his new team arrives – The Guardians of the Galaxy! I love how classic Marvel this page feels, with all of the heroes getting their logos shown. I wish Kitty as Star Lord, got a different font or something. She does look great, in the new (old) gear. Schiti just plain slays this issue.
  Grimm calls her, Kit – which I’m cool with. These two being on the same time, feels like a long time in the making. She calls him, Mr. Grimm, which I sort of like. I remember, as a youngster, calling him, The Thing, and my mother telling me how that is a horrible name.
  Groot looks like he still has his power upgrade from Black Vortex, even though he gave that power up.
  Rocket, who is the leader of the group now- from what all of press and interviews stated – asks if they are going to do the thing. Kitty is fine with that plan. So there is a story of Kitty joining the team, prior to Thing joining, that I really want to read about.
  I love seeing what Kitty can do, if she is given the opportunity to do so! Kitty is now playing on a larger scale, and she has the power to do so.
  Venom, is still learning what Pryde can do – so they couldn’t have been together for that long. Or his solo series, is keeping him from the title, for periods at a time. Flash is curious why she doesn’t phase through her clothes. Rocket, quickly, points out how Flash is wearing alien goo and he doesn’t question that (to his face).
  Drax, like everyone should be, is very impressed with Pryde. Rocket really likes this new Star Lord. Drax wonders how the old one fares, whom Rocket calls “the fancy boy king.” Rocket isn’t that impress with Quill.
  Planet Spartax. It’s Damn Nice. Quill is in yet another board meeting, losing his mind with boredom. Quill starts to stand, when his main adviser asks where he is going, he doesn’t have a good answer. The adviser knows what is happening and assures Quill that the meeting is almost over. If a few hours, can be translated as almost. This probably explains why his own ongoing, is a flashback story.
  The Guardians’ Ship. Nicer than it looks. I’m hoping this series has plenty of these scenes. The team has an alien artifact and don’t know how to open it.
  Grimm brings up a thought, that I’m sure he has been wanting a share. If there is an Infinity Gauntlet, shouldn’t there be an Infinity Armor?
  I’m not all that aware of what the Chitauri do. I know in the Ultimate Universe, that is what the Skrulls were called – and “Skrulls” being a racial slur. They are also the alien threat in the first Avengers film – that sums up what I know. So I also don’t know what’s in the box. WHAT’S IN THE BOX!?!
  Great use of two silent panels, the team having the same thought an same reaction – to hide behind the furniture.
  Rocket wants to open the box. They don’t have any experts, on call – so Drax’s idea doesn’t work. Flash wants to call the Avengers, like he always does (apparently). If Rocket doesn’t want to go to Earth, Kitty has a planet they can go to.
  I sort of want these few pages to be acted out. I never have that desire, with any other writer – besides with Bendis.
  Planet Spartax. Again. President Quill is having a meeting with a pink alien queen (who is all neck). She wants to procreate with him, it makes sense, to bridge their two planets. She licks his face, as company arrives.
  Quill confirms that Kitty is still his fiance – but they do seem strained. Look how excited Rocket is to point out that Kitty sees Quill and the other alien, together.
  Rocket doesn’t want to share any details with Quill. Flash explains why they are there. Grimm is still going on about Infinity Jockstraps.
  It appears that the Guardians were followed. The red hot light crashes down to the planet’s surface. Quill seems to have a suspicious of what or who it is.
  Gamora is back! She, like Kitty, doesn’t appear to have kept her Black Vortex upgrade. Gamora mutters that it took all of her power to escape, to escape from the destroyer of worlds.
  
  “Tonight, leave the window open.” Though she seems reluctant she nods, and just like that I’ll be alone with Dainy tonight.