Reviews

Guardians of the Galaxy by Jim Valentino Vol. 2 by Jim Valentino

mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition

2.0

The original Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah whatever, though given it's age it could have been much worse. It was readable but not especially interesting. The characters and setup were all pretty dumb and kind of cardboard feeling. The writing felt like the writers thought they were being witty but mostly it felt flat. The artwork wasn't bad again considering the age, but it wasn't all that good either. 2.5 of 5.

vernip's review against another edition

4.0

Basically, you only pay attention to this team in the hopes that they somehow team up with the Guardians of the Galaxy we all know from the movies.
But heck yeah, DO YOU WANT HOKEY SCI-FI NONSENSE THAT EVEN STAR TREK WOULD BALK AT?
Yes? Then this is your jam!
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Seriously, how did we go from noble-warrior-race Yondu to redneck-space-pirate Yondu?

thecommonswings's review against another edition

3.0

The late eighties were a weird time to be buying Marvel comics: I gravitated to stuff like Walt Simonson’s Fantastic Four run but although I bought a lot of other superhero comics around that time, they seemed a bit directionless and lacking in the focus of some of the more author driven stuff. This early Guardians book typifies that feeling, with some great ideas - the Stark, in particular - lost in a sort of weird mush of generic heroics and even more hackneyed villains. One of these, the amazingly named Taserface, eventually turns up in the second GOTG film mainly so they can laugh at his name (a little harsh, as it appears a ten year old literally came up with it), but generally as characters go, both the goodies and baddies are less defined in terms of their writing and more by their archetypes. If you kind of like your heroes like Ben Grimm, here’s Charlie 27 for example. As such there’s some pleasure to be had in a bunch of catchphrases slugging it out, but it wears itself out fairly quickly. The latter Korvac stuff is a bit more sprightly but feels like it’s cramming in a lot more exposition instead of actual plotting plus it does tend to show you how dull, say, said Charlie is when he’s literally with the Thing and you realise how much of a knock off he is

ozshark's review against another edition

2.0

the first half was entertaining enough without being riveting, but the second half of the collection wasn't as good.