Before reading this I knew next to nothing about this team and its members, the exception being Gamora. At first, it was a little overwhelming to be introduced to all of these characters and their world, but the format of mixing in titled debriefings within the story really helped learn everyone and keep the story straight, after that each issue flowed easier than the one before.Once you have the characters straight this is a very fast read, not very wordy, really great art.This is hard to rate

I wasn't quite sure I'd like this one as much as Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy, but it turned out to be pretty darn good! The best thing (to me) was that the story had a lot of humor, and even with all the Fate of the World stuff going on, it never lost its cheeky feel.I was surprised that this one was a Getting the Guardians Together origin story (of sorts), but it made the whole thing really easy for some like me, who doesn't have years and years of Marvel Space Stories under my belt, to und...

Coming soon to a theater near you….After two big comic crossovers have left the fabric of the Marvel Universe torn up and vulnerable Peter Quill (a/k/a Star-Lord) recruits a group of interstellar misfits to protect it. And of course when your goal is guarding the galaxy you need to have a heavily armed talking raccoon on the team…If Rocket Raccoon isn’t weird enough for you, the Guardians headquarters called Knowhere is in the severed head of a Celestial floating outside space/time, and the chie...

So in the wake on Annihilus and the Annhilation wave, Peter Quill and Adam Warlock decide to put together a proactive team to deal with issues before they become serious. The Annhilation wave made fissures in space through which other-dimensional beings may attempt to enter to wreak havoc. Thus they put together the Guardians of the Galaxy. Starlord, Warlock, Gamorra, Mantis, ROcket Racoon, Groot and Drax. This first issue was written by Dan Abnett, of Warhammer 40k fame, is interesting. It take...

Wow, I don't think I've ever come around on a book faster. When I started this series, I was 100% lost. Apparently the Guardians formed after the events of Annihilation and Annihilation: Conquest, two massive "cosmic Marvel" crossovers I never read and am totally unfamiliar with. As such, a lot of the characters and references in the first couple of issues were just like reading static to me. Then, just when I started to feel like this was a waste of time, and that Abnett was never going to clue...

I read the first 3 issues a while back, and was reading the Secret Invasion tie in stuff, so got back to this.Love the humour, mixed with real issues, good art, a team who actually get hurt, and smart mixed with badass.Drax is better here, Quill is less teenage emo and Rocket isn't insane. Plus Warlock, Quasar (NOT Wendell ) and Mantis are fun inclusions.Loved the Vance Astrovik inclusion.The SI stuff was smartly done, and I've noticed the best Tieins have nothing to Do with the bigger event, ju...

I read some article over the summer when the Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out that listed this as one of the books I should check out if I wanted to beef up on Marvel shnizz before seeing it. I never got around to it, and I'm kinda glad. I would have expected a much different movie afterwards if I had. This is actually the book where the current incarnation of the GOTG were created. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning pulled together the new team from previously existing characters in the Marvel u...

Rocket Raccoon is probably the only character that is the same in comic book form and movie form (and I'm talking about character wholesale) - but I guess that's because he is an animated 'coon - no actor interpretation required? Haha. I love the movie, but the comics are something pretty special too.Not as epic as the Annihilation books, but definitely has its moments. In short... enjoyed this! 'nuff saidNow onwards to the Nova Vol. 3: Secret Invasion...

I picked up a Guardians of the Galaxy that started over after this and it was not good. I didn't like it. This is very enjoyable and there are some characters that haven't made the movies yet. I really like Quasar and Adam Warlock and I hope they will make the team in the next movie. This was fun. I don't really feel like this was the start of the story and yet it is. Peter Quill uses Mantis to force this team to work together mentally. They do and they run into all kinds of adventures. This is

Really enjoyed this just wished I'd read this before seeing the movie.

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I originally started reading this as my first cosmic comic. I paused and thought, "I must be missing some context here." So I stopped, I went back and read the Thanos canon stories, some Nova, Annihilation, and Conquest. With all that under my belt, I'm loving GotG. I'm not saying one has to have read these other storylines to enjoy this story, but it has definitely improved the experience for me. Can't wait to dig into the next volume (while simultaneously reading Nova's story. )

This book contains the origin of the Guardians of the Galaxy.That's the present day GOTG of Earth-616 (or 'Earth Prime' as they're calling it now), not the original GOTG from the alternate future of the year 3000 of alternate Earth-691... nor the movie GOTG from alternate Earth-199999... or the cartoon GOTG from alternate Earth-12041.I don't know about you, but I think I need to go and have a lie down.Anyway, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Lots of action, some truly great characters and a couple of p...

Lordy, here goes nothing. Suckered into reading the Abnett/Lanning Guardians - more faithful than Bendis, but less funny and fun. DnA seem to revere the Guardians, tradition, all the trappings of goofball dialects and evil space villains. Ugh. Maybe if I was ten years old I'd be more excited about this, but instead it feels like a damn chore.Go clean the oven while you're at it, Mike...Or at least, that's what I expected to find when I cracked this book. And yet, even at my age I haven't learned...

I picked this up immediately after seeing this movie trailer. Who wouldn't want to know more about this intergalactic group of rogues, including both an anthropomorphic‎ racoon and a space Ent? And to think I'd never heard of them at all.Reading this graphic novel has me even more excited for the movie, and to read further into the series -- which also has some other great characters not featured in the movie trailer, such as Adam Warlock, Mantis, and Cosmo the Soviet space dog. All in all, this...

Well, this was fun.I haven't seen the Guardians movie yet, me and all those dead people, so I just had a vague idea about the Guardians, from years ago. I knew some of these characters, some I didn't, but DnA, a set of my favorite authors, do a good job of setting up the scene, motivations, and gives some background information without it being too wordy or opaque.Pretty sure other reviewers will set up the plot in their reviews, but wanted to say I did enjoy this quite a bit.I actually read the...

I continue my Guardians of the Galaxy exploration with Legacy. This features the now familiar faces of Drax, Gamorra, Peter Quill, Groot and Rocket, but their personalities are quite different. In fact, they are rather boring and fairly typical, and the story once again fails to help me understand why the team cares about working together, under Star-Lord, who forms the team to protect the galaxy, after one two many galaxy-threatening attacks of late. Of course, forming the team just means more

Good start.

After loving the movie so much, I had to go on a spree, fully aware that the movie and the comics don't agree with each other. I found that it didn't matter in the slightest. I liked this newer incarnation very much, but I began reading the one from '08 at the same time and had to admit that I liked that one more. It was slightly more gritty. It doesn't matter, really. It's character and action driven stories that keep a healthy dose of tongue in cheek. I love it. The illustrations are superior

Peter Quill or as many known him, Star-Lord, finds a way to unite a bunch of misfits who either have troubled past or came from a family of super-humans. Either way, they reunite to take down enemies threatening the peace of the universe which is why they are called Guardians of the Universe (after going through some trail and error names, this one stuck). Anyway, lots of disagreements and trust issues ensue as they try to work together. There was a lot of tensions too with some members not trus...