Guardians of the Galaxy#18 is a great send-off to a fantastic arc and a love letter to Ewing's own stint on the title. ThisGuardiansrun will surely be remembered as one of the greats and while it's sad to see it go, it really couldn't have ended on a stronger note. Read Full Review

All around, Guardians of the Galaxy #18 is a very engaging book that delivers a thrill ride performance.  Read Full Review

Guardians of the Galaxy #18 brings down the curtain with a satisfyingly dramatic win. But it turns out, this volume hit "peak mystic weirdness" back in the previous arc, and this one is much more straightforward. While the mundanity of this finale might disappoint a few strange-headed readers (like me), most will be entirely happy with this end. It still maintains the volume's impeccably high standards of verbal and visual craftsmanship, and it ties its main plot up neatly while throwing out a few solid sequel hooks. Read Full Review

Guardians of the Galaxy #18 serves as the big finale to The Last Annihilation. The comic is good but I wish it could be great since it's very by-the-numbers and the story is pretty predictable, especially if you kept up with the tie-ins. Dormammu himself isn't an entertaining villain, since he doesn't really do anything except look menacing. The crossover event as a whole just feels underwhelming, and it's Dr. Doom who ends up stealing the show in this comic in more ways than one. Read Full Review

There are some interesting developments here with Rich Rider, but outside of everything else, this mini-event really ended with a whimper compared the other entries in the line the past few months. Read Full Review

The Guardians defeat Dormammu in an unsurprising but satisfying way. And for dessert, we get a nice ominous peek at some of Dr. Doom's true planning. The visuals are solid Big Event Art, and the plotting is rational. The prose ain't particularly special, though. I think I prefer my Ewing Cosmic Climaxes to have full-strength mystic weirdness, like #12. This issue does offer the prospect of a lot of nifty non-heteronormative hookups at the afterparty, though.

I hadn't realised the series was over with this. That's very disappointing.

The issue itself was pretty good. 8 might be generous of me but I'm keeping it because I've enjoyed the character work, more than the overall plot. There's a lot of characters involved and they were written well. I well written dr doom is among my favourite reads and I was not disappointed.

The plot though... Maybe it was the structure of the event, bouncing around the way it did, did not provide the scope and urgency it should have. The name of the story invokes the original annihilation story, possibly my all time favourite comic story. The structure of the original (opening one shot, several mini series and final series) made it feel big. It made the annihilation war seem like it really was a universal conflict. Planets were destroyed, established characters died, it was huge and awesome! But here, dormammu does next to nothing. His mindless army have some battles across several planets, which could have been fun if the story structure was different. Annihilus had a mindless army also but those bugs were far more terrifying than the mindless ones. I just feel the story could have been better if the one shot issues were mini series to build up the overall threat more. So missed opportunity. more

The character work continues to move me.
It's the action-packed nonsense plot that lost me.

This issue as a finale for the last annihilation event is surely a rushed mess with very few merits. Dormammu was never the big bad guy after all....I get it Ewing but it didn't land as well as he wanted and that gets me to the second point which is yet again another GOTG run down the sink. It was very promising and interesting but didn't connect well with people I guess and I don't blame them. At least it was better than Cates's mess. RIP....I'll see you when GOTG-3 comes out.

I wanted to like this more than I did. I enjoyed the character work and certainly enjoyed the implied triad, but the last third of this book never really captured the power of the first 12 issues and this was an anticlimactic end to a crossover that never really got up to full speed. A perfectly OK issue to end on, but it should have been so much more.

The first half was super boring but the second half was pretty good. Still, I'd lie if I'd say I'll miss this. Until #12 it was pretty bad, it picked up some steam in the last 6 issues but still wasn't enough to wow me. The Guardians need some fresh ideas and no writer in the last runs managed to bring that up. Also, I could have done without the constant winks from Ewing with all his polyamorous bullshit. So, again, decent ending, the stuff with Doom was exciting but it's better to end this way than dragging on and on without actually having something to say.

Not what I expected, maybe I wanted a big BOOM but it was nevertheless in a decent way, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what was coming. I liked the art along with the palette that was used.

He had some moments where I got bored, then he picked up the pace but this number wasn't surprised me.

ehhhhh. Dormammu was pretty disappointing, just shows up and gets one-shotted. Art was bland, but whatever. Didn't care to be honest.

End the run with a giant bullet, meh