BITTERSWEET REUNION! The Guardians find themselves face-to-face with their old teammate Groot! But he's not the friend they remember! Will this be a happy reunion or an all-out massacre? It may be the latter, as the rift between this family runs deep.
Rated T+
After establishing its unconventional status quo, Guardians of the Galaxy gets an opportunity to genuinely shine in this installment. Read Full Review
Guardians of the Galaxy #3 is the best issue of the series so far. It explores the theme in a way that respects the history it is borrowing from whilst making an impactful story. Read Full Review
A rough adventure continues to get even rougher as ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy' continues the title characters' overall fall from grace. Every bit of the issue works together seamlessly to return these characters to a new but also very familiar type of status quo. Read Full Review
Friend is a four letter word, indeed. Read Full Review
The first really close look at the heart of Groot in this series seems like its in more or less the right spot. Kelly and Lanzing clearly have a very solid perspective on how to handle things. Theres a thoughtful approach to the story that feels like its trying to avoid Marvel space-fantasy cliches. The whole creative team IS coming up with something distinctly new without completely reinventing the concept of space fantasy. Its not brilliant, but its a great deal of fun, and thats exactly what Guardians of the Galaxy has always been in its best moments. Read Full Review
Guardians of the Galaxy #3is the runs first clunker, the team attempting to say something socially whilst forgetting that doing so poignantly would require an actual story to unfold. This issue isn't awful, and will read better when done so in a binge-like fashion, but it's unforgivably boring. Read Full Review
Guardians of the Galaxy #3 gives readers a tidbit about the nature of Grootfall during a contrived Royal Hunt, which is more information that readers got out of the previous two issues. The issue as a whole is weird, but a small clue is better than no clue. Still, the lack of entertainment or answers, tips the scales away from satisfying to frustrating, making this series an increasingly tough sell. Read Full Review
This was a step-up from the previous two issues. I'm glad we got something in terms of trying to learn more about Grootfall and what exactly is going on there. We didn't technically LEARN that much, but we did get some advancement in that story with Rocket's return being set-up for the next issue. As for the rest of the story here, I thought it was an interesting Peter-centered story and I thought it was cool to see him absolutely obliterate that starship at the end.
We haven't seen Star-Lord pull out his true power in a while. Nice to be reminded why he's got that name.
Art is still on point. The books a clow burn but you stay for the art and dialogue.
It's a small but critical step forward in the big-picture plot, and the mysteries of that plot are now the biggest hook pulling me onward. The art is nice and dynamic and the Spartax make perfectly awful guest-stars; they do all the buffoonery they need to do to earn their fate. When it comes to characterization, though, Quill's stoic tough guy act is pretty off-the-shelf stuff.
This is turning out to be the worst run of Guardians. Maybe something interesting will happen but so far it's boring, the characterization is absolutely brutal and the art is subpar. None of these characters act like who they are. It's a crappy mix of MCU guardians blended with the knowledge of someone who skimmed a Wikipedia page on starlord. Ewings run was solid and completely ignored here.
Heroes going evil, or fighting among each other is the stupidest trope in comic story telling and I feel like that's all so many hack writers know how to do lately.
This comic sucks
3 issues in and this book is already so boring!
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