290. Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 #7 ... Marvel ... (2008) ...

Okay enough Wolvs and Spiders. Let's look to the stars and the surprising hit movie of last year from Marvel - GOTG. I will be honest here. I am a huge fan of the first comic series of which the only person to make an appearance is Yondu. Now Yondu in the comic is a mystic zen type of priest and the Yaka arrow that he controlled by whistling is equally special. However, even though I am reading and collecting comics for 30 years, I am not a purist and am open minded enough because when I go to a movie, I want the movie to be entertaining and not just following the comic blindly ... and of course for the movie to succeed because if it does, there will be more movies and comics to come ... and what a relief that the actual movie was even better than the comic!

But hey this is not a review about the movie

So the first arc of this launch was good. In issue 7, we first have a switchover of artist and while I have nothing against this new chap but opening arc artist was just plain awesome. So suddenly the series felt like it dropped. However, for those of you reading this on a back issue basis or trade, please note that this version of GOTG was running when Marvel was trying to resuscitate its space/ cosmic corner of the comic-verse. So in short almost every arc is either a part or side players for whichever series was running and this is no difference

What is odd is the first few pages where we see the original GOTG and wondering WTF before we are shown that its memories from the female one-who-knows

 Naturally before this is developed further, it's time for fisticuffs. So cue next scene and we see some of the guardians kicking up a storm with the villains of the day some gigantic sized and not so giant sized aliens but it's all good ... cos they are more like grunts no matter how they look ...

Who then is the villain of the piece? It comes at the end ... and not so much of a shock as ... a part of the storyline ... somehow it felt kind of flat. Read it and see what we mean

Ratings: 5/10