Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, returns to the fold! But what does that mean for Kitty Pryde, a.k.a. Star-Lord? Is the Marvel Universe big enough for two Star-Lords? Find out as the Guardians face a new Galactic order! The Thing might miss some things about Earth, but he does admit that space has its perks. Like riding alien horses into action as Ben Grimm: Space Barbarian! Venom and Groot get in way over their heads fighting Skrulls — and everyone knows when Bendis writes Skrulls, it's bad news! The galaxy's two deadliest warriors, Gamora and Drax, take the fight to the Badoon! And Angela makes her dramatic return! They're the galaxy's most wanted, but they'll still guard it all the same!
A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.
Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.
Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.
Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.
Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.
Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.
He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.
Overall I enjoyed this. And minus the return of the Annoying Angela, the volume had most of what I look for in a GotG comic.
Kitty and Peter have a heart to heart in the middle of a battle with Badoon that was both funny and poignant, but I still don't know exactly what happened between them. If anyone can point me in the direction of whatever issue I'm missing, it would be most appreciated.
I'm still not sold on the Thing as a member of this group, but he doesn't suck as hard as I thought he would, and Rocket plays off of him pretty well. I feel the same way about Flash/Venom. He not an awful character, but I'm not super-excited when the Space Symbiote shows up. Eh. shrugs Unfortunately, I can't say the same about Angela. She's back! And still rockin' the porn star outfit, complete with the twirly ribbons of death, & that ridiculous winged helmet. But I'm honestly shallow enough to give her looks a pass if she wasn't such a boring character. I get it, she's a WARRIOR! Stabby-stab-stab. Whatever. She's just not interesting.
Alright, enough bitching. Like I said, for the most part this was a fun little comic. The gist is that the Guardians set out to free someone (Hmmmmm, I wonder who?) from a Badoon prison planet, and end up biting off more than they can chew... OR CAN THEY ACTUALLY CHEW IT?!
Recommended for fans of the Guardians who aren't terribly picky about stuff.
I enjoyed how these issues were laid out. Each issue is a two man mission to the Badoon prison planet. Peter and Kitty get a nice heart to heart in the first issue. I wish they'd explain what happened between them though. Grrr. I love they discuss Kitty's lack of fashion sense. I don't think she's ever had a great costume or code name, even though she's one of my favorite X-Men. Then we get a Rocket and Thing issue. The Thing works really well in this book. And I love the scenes with him and the thankful female prisoner he rescues. Next we have Groot and Venom. Venom is just kind of boring in this book. I think Flash works better on Earth. Lastly, we have a Gamora and Drax team-up where we finally find out who the guardians are trying to rescue. Gamora is pretty awesome in this one.
Storyline was more a ☆☆☆ star, but I think Bendis totally nailed Kitty and Ben characters here, Schiti's artworks were great ones, I'm a fan of Angela-Gamora deadly duo and a few gags like the final "wash your hands" one made me laugh to tears.
"You are slavers and a blight on the galaxy! And your reign of terror ends NOW!!!" -- Drax the Destroyer
Vol. 2: Wanted lacks some of its predecessor's humor, but it's replaced by an increase in the fabOOm fabOOm fabOOm - the onomatopoeia used when Gamora and Drax jump into the fray - big action. The newly super-sized team splits up into pairs on a Magnificent Seven / The A-Team-style of rescue mission. Their job, should they choose to accept it (. . . wait, that's Mission: Impossible), is to free the thousands imprisoned / enslaved on The Brotherhood of the Badoon's 'correctional planet.' ("It's a concentration camp!!!" observes an understandably furious Kitty Pryde.) To again quote Ms. Pryde, this uncomplicated but enjoyable story was "bad-ass, renegade Guardians of the Galaxy kick-assery."
The Guardians of the Galaxy are enacting a plan to free the people the Badoon have captured and forced into slave labor.
The Guardians are such a goofy group. It was fun seeing them pair off to enact their plan. This may be the first time I've witnessed them actually having something that resembles a good plan. Of course everything didn't go smoothly.
Well, that was a reasonably entertaining cosmic romp featuring some characters I love (and some I really don't), so I can't grumble too much.
I'm really unenthused about the ever-dull Angela's return to the Guardians, though. With her added to the equally-tedious Gamora, the female part of the team is as dull as dishwater. Thank goodness Kitty's onboard to keep me interested. (Hi, Kitty. I'm still here, y'know, for when you get tired of dating all these Peters. Hugs.)
Speaking of Kitty, where the flark is Lockheed? He'd fit into the Guardians perfectly! What book wouldn't be improved by the addition of a tiny, purple space-dragon?
One of the great things about the Guardians of the Galaxy is their banter. With that in mind, Bendis said "Hey, why don't we separate them for an entire arc and greatly reduce the awesome banter?". This book is just the same plot told over and over, with two different Guardians starring in each issue. Two guardians go to a prison planet, kick ass, and free a bunch of slaves. Rinse and repeat.
It has some weird moments, too. Like when Kitty goes all Hulk because she sees a prison planet and starts yelling "Concentration camp!!!!" like she has lost her mind. I get why she would be mad but, like Quill says, what did she expect from a "prison planet"? On that same note, in this Guardians run Bendis really played her Jewish background up to the point of almost being satire. She is always "oy veying" "mazel toving" it up like she is Miracle Max or something (Bendis himself has a Jewish background which makes this all the more baffling. Is this really what he thinks young Jewish people sound like?). This is made even stranger by the fact that different writers write Kitty so differently. So in this she is the most Jewish young person to ever spin a dreidel, but in something like X-Men Gold you might not be able to guess that she is Jewish at all. I wish they would just pick a voice for her and stick with it to some degree.
The big surprise of the mysterious "she" that they keep talking about throughout this volume is kind of spoiled by the fact that they plastered Angela's mug right on the cover. As for Angela being in this volume, I had no problem with that. I am not her biggest fan ever, but I like her well enough.
It starts with Guardians deciding to free people from enslavement from the Badoon and we follow different guardians on their missions to save people and its interesting what happens and like the story with Gamora rescuing Angela was fun and then how the Guardians came together and saved Quill, that was the fun part and the romance and friendships being tested like anything else and its a final war between the Guardians and the Badoons, some will fall and only some will survive!
Is fun and is quite fast to read and reading it in single issues could be frustrating thats for sure and I like the banter between Angela and Gamora and the ending was quick but then again thats Angela. Good one time read and Valerio's art continues to get better with every volume!
[Read as single issues] Brian Bendis's first arc of this new volume of Guardians basically undid everything he'd done in the previous series. This second arc feels like filler before the Guardians can get back to Earth for Civil War II. Each of the Guardians is scattered across the galaxy, and now they need to reunite in order to save each other from their vairous enemies.
Each issue focuses on a different character (which is a similar storytelling device to what Bendis will use in the fourth and final volume too) until the team is reunited in the final one. Some of the issues are very forgettable, to the point where I don't even remember what they were about. The Gamora/Angela issue is definitely a standout, and I quite liked the Thing issue. The rest are a bit blah.
The artwork is a major selling point however; Bendis stands back and lets Valerio Schiti do his best widescreen action panels in these issues, and they're gorgeous to look at. I've mentioned his Rocket and Groot before, but they're so awesome, and he draws both Gamora and Angela attractive but never cheesecake-y.
A holding pattern arc that won't do much in the long-run, but some very pretty visuals to keep you going.
I am conflicted. On one hand, the writers really tried to do a meaningful storyline with depth and stakes to it. Although the story felt bland at points, the overall theme was present, in all honesty, it could have been done to a bigger effect. Anyways the story evolved from the previous volume as it showed better quality and finality. It did at points felt like a "heroes dispose of a multitude of bland and generic minions". Even with its honorable mission, the Guardians had a rescue mission in mind. Did they rescue Angela? Angelica? who is that? She looks like the new Thor. I guess she is from that world, never seen her before. The volume began with Quill and Kitty which was great cause they are supposed to be in a relationship, but I didn't get that vibe at all at the previous volume, I still kinda don't, to be honest. I really appreciated the characters being separated and giving the reader a chance to get to know them or spend time with them equally. I was able to learn little bits of each character which was much needed. I don't think I know anything about Flash and still don't after this volume, he's kinda boring. Sometimes it takes me a second to see the difference between him and Quill like they are twins compared to how different everyone else is in the group. The characters are fine and sometimes work great together, but I think the team is kinda bloated. Sometimes with such a big group of character, they have to be very unique in their personalities and aspirations and I don't see much of that in this comic group. Outside of a few characters, everyone else is kinda flat for me. The writers really need to give these characters more personality or cut a few out. Overall the comic was fine. The idea for liberating a slaving planet could have been really meaningful and relevant, but in my opinion, it didn't go there, just became a fight all the minion's story. The characters got alone time from each other and were able to showcase themselves individually. Which worked for some and not others since it revealed how bland and boring most of them are, especially Flash, why are you in this comic? My favorite part is how in the next issue the already struggling comic is going to do the one thing that usually makes me the angriest, a crossover. Nothing makes me more annoyed than a global event that interrupts the story and character development. Sigh, can't wait to rant in the next volume.
Another fun-filled ride. I definitely was chuckling full out numerous times. The story is fairly cut and dry. About what you could expect out of this team. Schiti's art work is holding up nicely since the first issue.
Overall this is a good series. Certainly not a must read by any means, but if you're in for something light that can easily be digested in one sitting have at it.
This is one of my favorite Guardians trades I’ve ever read. It has distinct Dan Abnett vibes, but still maintains the writer’s voice that made Bendis the juggernaut he is today. Valerio Schiti’s art is top notch, especially during the action scenes. Both he and Bendis give the moments space to develop and move, making this a smooth and pleasurable read.
Nobody writes ensemble stories quite like Bendis. Even in a book that showcases 10+ characters, everyone still has room to display their character traits. The banter is funny and witty, but not overwhelmingly so. It’s not “quips for the sake of quips” like so many concurrent titles. Also, the Guardians (including Kitty) are killing motherfuckers left and right, and it’s badass. This isn’t kid friendly.
This really is a well constructed arc, and I think anyone would enjoy it. Even if you haven’t read the last TPB, I still think it’s accessible. Definitely add this to your list!
This is a really great volume of Guardians. Its nice to see Bendis able to write a volume which isn't a tie-in, lead-up or follow-up to a Marvel event.
The Guardians (that's Star Lord, Kitty Pryde, Rocket, Groot, Drax, Gamora, Venom and the Thing at the moment) split up on a dangerous mission to infiltrate the Badoon homeworld and rescue Angela. Each chapter focuses on a section of the team and their individual mission. Inevitably Star Lord gets held captive and the final chapter sees the team come together to rescue him.
This is the second time that Bendis has split the Guardians up for a story and it works just as well. It gives a chance to spend time with the individual characters which is great and gives a comedy and some great relationship moments, especially better Peter Quill and Kitty Pryde.
The plot itself is not outstanding and largely consists of the Guardians fighting Badoon. But at least here they are fighting for a good reason, to save their friends and to close the Badoon slave camps once and for all.
I have to confess that the artwork is not really to my taste but the artist does a good job drawing lots of Badoon including lots of very busy double page spreads.
A good volume but I fear it won't last long as the Guardians are about to be sucked into Civil War II. You'd have thought if anyone could escape this Earth-bound event it would be them.
Druhé čtení 2020: Jde strašně vidět, jak Strážci Galaxie Bendise strašně nebaví. V tomhle díle totálně rezignuje na děj a nechává postavy, aby se celou knihu mlátily s badoony. Úplně vidím ty scénáře: "Sešit 7 -Thing a Rocket zachraňují věžně a bude tam hezká baba. Zpracuj si to jak chceš." "Sešit 8 - Venom a Groot zachraňují vězně a bude tam hodně "já jsem Groot". Zpacuj si to jak chceš."
Charaktery až na úvodní dialog nulové (tam občas probleskne starý bendis a Kitty je v 90s obleku vtipná), hlášky téměř žádné, fajn kresba. Celek sice funguje, ale je to ten nejlínější způsob, jak psát superhrdinský komiks.
The Guardians of the Galaxy have arrived at Badoon Correctional Planet intending to just rescue one prisoner. But they arrive to find a much bigger problem that needs to be addressed. Of course, things can never be easy or straightforward for the Guardians.
So this group of Guardians now includes Venom, Kitty Pride, Ben (previously of the Fantastic Four), along with originals. As expected, they have some great witty banter going on as they go about their business. Kitty Pride has the unenviable task of trying to snap Peter out of a funk while they are trying to do what they came to do. Venom also has the challenge of working with Groot solo for a while, even though he doesn't understand Groot. The issue they address on the planet is an important human alien rights issue so yay Guardians! The end of this sets things up for the Civil War stuff. This was a fun little read for the evening. I liked it better than the first of the New Guard volumes.
Notes on content: About 10 mild to moderate swear words. Rocket and Quill have their own made up swearing. And stronger swearing is completely replaced with grawlixes. No sex scenes. A certain female character they rescue is shown putting on her costume in one frame (she's shown in the equivalent of a one piece bathing suit that's a little bit busty). There's scifi violence throughout as there's a pretty non-stop battle to get off the planet from the first page. The alien blood is green and most of the frames are so busy it just seems more crazy rather than violent. There is one scene in which an organ is ripped from an alien (again green and not identifiable so it doesn't seem super gross). There's another scene with the severed head of an alien being held up (but it is still wearing a cape so it kind of looks like a floating head with green sauce on the cloth).
Brian Michael Bendis and Valerio Schiti unite to send the Guardians of the Galaxy on a planetary rescue mission in this all-new Marvel volume. Each issue spotlights a team of Guardians as they seek to end the Badoon reign over a distant prison planet. Peter Quill and Kitty Pryde highlight the first issue, with the star-crossed lovers seeking to reconnect as teammates, friends, and much more in the wake of the Spartax disaster. The Thing and Rocket make for a fun pairing in the next issue, using brains and brawn to liberate a host of enslaved aliens. Venom teams with Groot, as the heroes must put behind their Secret Invasion feelings to rescue entrapped Warkskrull prisoners; Drax and Gamora raid an outpost in the hopes of finding long-lost teammate Angela to add to their ranks. The volume concludes with the Guardians reunited to save Quill, bring along their freed allies to finally end the tyranny of the Badoon once and for all. Bendis is able to eschew the "talking heads" motif long enough to tell a large-scale story, but ultimately comes up sort on what should be an epic saga. Each issue feels underwhelming and unfinished, racing instead to the next without fully closing off the last plot points. Despite seeing the team back together in action, the book feels like a collection of side adventures with an addendum added to conclude the adventure. The art chores from Schiti are clean and expressive, which is both good and bad in this case. Though the expressions and figures are beautiful, the cleanliness seems to detract from the unique alien races depicted within. Guardians of the Galaxy: Wanted is more like a third wheel than a necessary party, but fans will glad snatch up the series for their collections.
Tras un primer volumen con una premisa interesante pero aprovechada a medias. Bendis nos da la misma historia de siempre: Los guardianes de la galaxia peleando contra batallones sin fin de enemigos genéricos para obtener algo o alguien/salvar personas/hundir un imperio corrupto. Lo único que Bendis hace para que su historia sea un poco original, es darnos la narrativa de manera cruzada, contándonos partes de la historia por equipos de personajes, pero tampoco es que funcione perfectamente. Como es costumbre, lo más importante en las historias de Bendis son los diálogos. No tenemos una historia de Bendis si no vemos personajes hablar y hablar, a veces hay construcción de personajes, la mayoría sólo son diálogos vacíos. Aquí tenemos eso en cada pareja de Guardianes que están cumpliendo su misión respectiva. Hay buenos momentos como la conversación entre Star Lord y Kitty donde tratan de amarrar los eventos del volumen anterior y al mismo tiempo le dan peso emotivo a la misión que están tratando de cumplir. La pareja de Venom y Groot también tiene diálogos interesantes (así es, inclusive Groot) pero como no recuerdo los sucesos que cita Venom una y otra vez, no pude darle el peso adecuado y Bendis ni siquiera se perturba en decirte qué está sucediendo. El resto de las interacciones o son forzadas o están vacías. Hay pura acción de los Guardianes destazando Badoons a diestra y siniestra sin que haya un verdadero reto para ellos. Viendo que el tercer volumen se llama Civil War, ya puedo imaginarme lo malo que será.
This volume is just a muddle. It starts with a big, nonsensical fight in a prison plant that just barely makes sense. For some reason Bendis decides to defer the background for the middle issue. And, I love this type of en media res when it serves a purpose, but it doesn't here, and it's poorly executed.
Then, we get several issues of meaningless fighting. Oh and Bendis has broken up the band again, resulting in the same fractured, non-group stories that we got in Dissassembled. And suddenly it turns out to be a really big story that will decide the fate of the Badoon empire. That's exactly the sort of story that Guardians be telling, but it's totally unearned here.
So, as I said: it's a muddle, a mess.
The good part of the storyline is that Bendis does manage some good characterization. Kitty and Peter are great. And they have some nice moments. Ben has some good moments too. (Gamora has a good moment also, but it's just a touch-back to a previously dropped plot thread, so no points there.) And everyone else is there. Which makes me wonder if Bendis really wants to be writing about the actual Guardians at all.
The team travels to a slave planet that is ran by the Badoon in order to free the people but also save Angela.
That's right, Angela enters back into the picture with this one, and while she doesn't have too much to do (besides a bit of light decapitation), I am eager to see what Bendis has planned for her. This volume was fun, if not a bit light on plot. The usual Bendis banter is there, but to be honest, I expected more of it. I think when Bendis is at his best is when he is having the characters interact with each other and playing off of each others quirks. For this one, it is mostly action, and a bit light on the dialogue.
The art by Valerio Schiti was very good, and I feel he is getting into a groove with these characters. From actions scenes to just them standing around, the book looks fresh and energized.
I think Bendis has moments of really good stuff so far, but I'm waiting for him to really give us something substantial. Hopefully next volume will up the ante a bit.
At the end of volume 1, the Guardians of the Galaxy became "wanted" outlaws. I assumed that this volume, titled "Wanted", would be related to that... nope. This is a prison break. Every issue is about two of the team going across the galaxy liberating prison/slave planets, until the final issue where we get a quick revolution and freeing of the planet. You know what? It's fun. It's neat. The formatting, with different (sometimes odd) pairings is nice. You get your obligatory Quill/Pryde issue, you get a Rocket/Thing issue which feels like most Rocket/Groot issues except you can hear Ben talk, you get a Venom/Groot issue and a Gamora/Drax issue, both of which are pretty lackluster but could be neat. It's a pretty self-contained arc (until the ending of the volume which kicks off the next arc) and is one of the more enjoyable things Bendis has written.
The highlights are Kitty Pryde, who is Jewish, having to deal with space concentration camps and that history, as well as Angela showing up (but Angela/Gamora are still not a couple and that's crap).
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Bendis really knows these characters, and he does a fantastic job in this arc. He's better here (on Guardians in general, the entire run) than he's ever been with a team book before, and I say that having mostly enjoyed his X-Men and Avengers runs. His work these characters is good enough to be a career signature comics run, but Bendis has already had several of those--Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-Man. Powers, I could go on--so it will have to be one of many such superb quality runs.
Schitti's artwork is fantastic, with just enough flavor of difference to avoid being flavor-of-the-week. Plus I can make sad, immature scatological puns with his name. Which probably involves My mispronouncing it, but oh well.
Oh, yeah, in this volume, it's Guardians vs. the Badoon. In big, big way.
I really enjoyed this. I think the Guardians are finding its groove with this iteration. I find it how hilarious how most of the characters would play coy about naming a certain someone even though she graces the cover.
Anyways, this rescue mission fails enough times to count as a realistic Guardians adventure and they win as they always do in the end.
I've always liked the continuing relationship of Kitty Pryde and Peter Quill and look forward as this keeps evolving.
Additionally, newer Guardians players (Thing and Venom) prove themselves as solid teammates in this volume and I can't wait to keep reading this series.
Jeden cel, jakim jest walka z Badoonami. Jednocześnie nasi bohaterowi są podzieleni na kilka grup, wykonując różne zadania. Niekiedy bywa efektownie i efekciarsko, ale nie jest wymyka się to spod pewnych schematów, przez co wiele pomysłów czy rozwiązań widziałem już gdzieś indziej. W takim wypadku wypadałoby liczyć na chemię pomiędzy postaciami, ale ta jest na poprawnym poziomie i nie zapamiętałem żadnych rozmów.
Niemniej to niezły akcyjniak i nic poza to. W poprzednim rozdaniu Bendis miał mi dużo więcej do zaoferowania. Tutaj zaczyna zjadać własny ogon, a mimo to nadal jest to przyjemna, szybka lektura.