For example, I’ve never read a comic with this version of Moondragon and Phyla-Vell in it, but I picked up on and processed their deal quite easily. Like most Al Ewing comics, Guardians moves quickly, introducing a new threat within its first five pages, conscripting the Guardians (or rather, some of them) into action within the next six, and then delivering cosmic explosions from there.ĭespite its pace, though, Guardians never lost me or felt like it was bogging me down in mountains of exposition. However, Guardians is also nowhere near as naval-gazing as that sentence makes it sound.

Guardians of the Galaxy is a comic about heroes reconciling their pasts with their futures. In Guardians of the Galaxy, Characters’ Pasts Drive Their Present However, Guardians 2020 is clever, touching, and most definitely a character piece – while still delivering the bombast and spectacle that cosmic comic fans desire.

That’s why, even with current-best-Marvel-writer Al Ewing attached, I wasn’t sure I was going to love the most recent volume of Guardians of the Galaxy. To me, the word “cosmic” is shorthand for visual bombast, overly-complex politics, and extended metaphors that writers and artists rely on in place of crafting compelling characters. I can’t connect with most cosmic superhero comics.

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