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A review by nightxade
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 1: Legacy by Dan Abnett, Paul Pelletier, Andy Lanning
3.0
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 galaxy-threatening attacks happen, and a whole lot of large explosions and epic fights. Things get a little introspective when one of the large explosions reveals that there are shapeshifting Skrull on board the Guardians’ base of operations, which means any one of them could be a traitor.
There are a few other team members in this book, one of whom makes it into the movie in a minor role. There is very little connection to earth at all. More importantly, there is very little connection for the characters and their purpose. Not that I was looking for an origin story again for these characters, but they were all just so basic and uninteresting that I really couldn’t get into this story or the team itself, even when it tried to offer me little insights from the individual team members through interrogation-type panels.
There are a few other team members in this book, one of whom makes it into the movie in a minor role. There is very little connection to earth at all. More importantly, there is very little connection for the characters and their purpose. Not that I was looking for an origin story again for these characters, but they were all just so basic and uninteresting that I really couldn’t get into this story or the team itself, even when it tried to offer me little insights from the individual team members through interrogation-type panels.