The Story Behind the Creation of Guardians of the Galaxy (and the Sad Aftermath)

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• BS

  @bsgconsulting · 3 years ago

  I loved the part where Nova shows up on Earth in the middle of the Civil War and just basically chews everyone out for how silly it seemed compared to what was really important.

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• CH

  @chemfan8398 · 3 years ago

  The worst thing that happened to the Guardians of the Galaxy was relaunching them with Bendis. On one hand it make it official that they were A-listers now, on the other hand Bendis did his usual and wrote the book the same way he was writing every other book.  He didn't adapt to the different concept, but instead he changed the style of the book to resemble more his style. During his time Carol Danvers, Iron Man, Kitty Pryde and even Venom (sigh) joined the team. The Guardians were teaming up with the Time Displaced original 5 x-men, were fighting in the civil war II (because reasons) and as people were saying at the time Hickman's Avengers were having more universe wide stories than the ones we were reading on the pages of GoG. No Thanos, no universal wide wars, no big stories...

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• LA

  @lancergt1000 · 3 years ago

  Somehow Rocket Racoon in his Annhilation costume managed to show up in Marvel vs Capcom 3, 3 years before the GoTG movie

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• PA

  @pauldigscomics7810 · 3 years ago

  The Annihilation run of cosmic Marvel comics from Thanos & Drax all the way to Thanos Imperative is my all time favorite comic run. I go back and read it every few years or so (I have all the omnibus collections). I've been a Nova fan since the New Warriors days and him becoming a cosmic badass was huge for me as a fan. Al Ewing's run from a couple years ago is the only run I can remember coming close to the Giffen/ DNA heyday. Thanks for the video Chris. I love the Guardians in all its forms.

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• EV

  @EvilCoffeeInc · 3 years ago (edited)

  Guardians 1 is the movie that got me into reading comics, and I still love the Abnett/Lanning run. Petty tragic that they aren&apos;t writing the team anymore.<br>Also, Nova and Rocket showed up in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 years before the movie made Rocket into a star, and to this day Nova is still tragically unknown. But I love that they made it into the game anyways.

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• BO

  @BoyNamedSue4 · 3 years ago

  The original run with DnA are among my all times favorites. This and their Nova run were always at the top of my stack.

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• OK

  @OK-hl6qd · 3 years ago

  Dan Abnett is one of the best writers out there today. He&apos;s been killing it in the warhammer 40k universe for 20+ years

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• BR

  @brandonmedina4471 · 3 years ago

  I think the biggest lesson from The Guardians of the Galaxy (both the future and modern teams) is the effectiveness of combining space stories with the special operations/mercenary genre/style. Both teams became more popular after adopting it and I think you also see that in Abnett &amp; Lanning’s Legion Lost run on Legion of Super Heroes.

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• JO

  @Johurph86 · 3 years ago

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• AS

  @Ashguy733 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The DnA run honestly was such a nice synergy tbh. It took characters that Starlin heavily used like his Infinty Watch characters like Gamora, Drax, Moondragon and added other Cosmic characters like Star-Lord, Nova, Bug, Mantis, Vance Astro, Quasar etc and modernized them, taking the Cosmic Existentialism of Starlin&apos;s characters and made the characters more relatable and a shift to more conflicts against Empires and cults vs Cosmic Entities that Starlin&apos;s era was.<br><br> As a Marvel Cosmic fan, this is one of the biggest issues for most people is that many Marvel Cosmic characters are usually just put into events without much development character wise or focus heavily on grand plots over character development. I loved that Nova got development along with the Guardians and wish they would do another series for Nova again. My main issue though is bringing earth bound Heroes into cosmic series when I think Cosmic Events should be an opportunity to grow and develop cosmic characters instead of just inserting them and relying heavily on the Earth Bound heroes.<br>Honestly Ewing is the closest since DnA to bringing back the Guardians to some good development.

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• ZZ

  @zzodysseuszz · 3 years ago

  Holy broccomoly a dynamite comics sponsor!? And gargoyles issues?? Man. My day is improved even tho the day of over in my country. I really wanna see ferosa show some self reflection on her wrongdoings and open up to the fact that all her problems can’t be blamed on everyone else all the time. I hope the new issues will expand on that

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• CI

  @CinemaniacComicsCorner · 3 years ago

  Yes! Another “Oh hi! You got me…” intro! I love those

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