Prior to a Blood Brothers showdown, Groot hilariously short-circuits a heist plan to retrieve Cosmo's "treasure." It's fun, but it's also a very over-elaborated riff on Groot's prison break gag in the first movie. Salva Espin's art is particularly nice this time around, but it doesn't do quite enough to elevate the lazy script all the way up to roundly entertaining.

The "quasi-MCU" setting suffers badly in a post-Infinity-War world, as the creators could draw freely from already-released films but had to guess at how Thanos and Titan should be portrayed. Their take on the Black Order - a nihilistic death-cult worshipping Thanos but flying totally below his radar - is kind of too good for a crass tie-in miniseries.