We have traveled long distances so far, from Earth to Spartax to Hala (RIP) to Moord to the planets of the Klyntar. But all things must end if the Beyonders and Doctor Doom get in a fight over the destiny of the universe, and so the universe ended. Today we're going to read the last bit of Bendis' GotG before the relaunch and how the whole "Star-President" thing started. And then we'll get to Battleworld. IMPORTANT: as simple as it was, Bendis DID NOT understand the premise behind Battleworld, so his Secret Wars minis make absolutely no sense. Assume this while you're reading, and buckle up for some serious Poser art.
Previous threads: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 and Many thanks to the based user who already did Humphries Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde and Legendary Star-Lord v2 here
Nathan Brown
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Cameron Miller
We're going to see some SERIOUS synergy in this couple of issues
Noah Murphy
But there a couple of good Hawkeye moments. This is the first one. Also great Art Adams art, if only for the first issue.
Jaxson Hughes
The transition from issue #1 to #2 is jarring. And is Rocket finally looking like an actual raccoon here?
Asher Ross
The Chitauri look so bad even for a meme race
Anthony Sanders
>since when were you under the impression that it wasn't *me* who cloaked the ship?
John Martinez
Did they just Starbrand that 7/11? Also taking the ship to to downtown wasn't probably the brighest idea
Henry Ward
Bump
Charles Richardson
>JaneThor in the Avengers pre-ANAD Time is broken indeed, Hank
Connor Sanders
The team they have here seems really random
Joseph Roberts
Spider-Woman BTFO How could she ever recover?
Thanks, user
Connor Edwards
Why not shooting at them before decloaking?
Nathan Sanchez
10/10, he learned from NOT LIKE THIS Bravo Bendis
Liam Smith
Cool Dad Clint telling the newbies the ol' Avengers stories is great and we should've had more of it in New Avengers v4
Angel Butler
Hyperion and Cannonball could tear into the Chitauri's ranks in two seconds
Charles Rivera
Based Adams, really. Too bad he's slo slow nowadays, you can really see the work that went in these pages though
Joshua Miller
Wow, Art Adams is REALLY phoning it in.
Colton Johnson
Starbrand is probably just toying with them Seriously this Avengers roster was ike 80% useless and then those 5 power monsters
Daniel Kelly
Less than you think, I'd say. If you look at the inking I get the impression that the original pages were really huge and were shrinked down too much to appreciate the effort
Asher White
Not in every page sure, here and there it looks quite shoddy and almost unfinished. Still I quite like it.
Josiah Sanchez
MOVIE O V I E
Austin Gutierrez
It's so weird to me that Nebula was at some point a huge Avengers villain and the main antagonist in 2-3 arcs + the whole Kang Nebula deal and then she's only here because she was used in the movie
Luke Johnson
I bet you're missing Adams already >Thanos sensei
Jaxon Jenkins
You welcome.
Brandon Long
>waking up sequence The Bendis bingo has no brakes And considering that Gamora has solo adventures every other issues in the GotG book, couldn't she have waited until then instead of taking on the whole Guardians AND Avengers?
Wyatt Sanders
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Luke Wood
What IS a genetic disrupter anyway? Not two people there have the same DNA with being all mutates and shit
Jace Bennett
Does Bendis only remember D-man's existence to make gags? Thank the Lord for Spencer then.
Grayson Ross
It's entirely possible that Gamora and Nebula interacted in some Starlin's Infinity Watch spioff, but I honestly doubt it was so preminent. This is just movie bait
Sebastian Myers
>many enemies >like, uh, the Badoon >who out a bounty on her head for, uh, reasons.
Luis Martinez
This doesn't really scream "the galaxy's most dangerous woman"
Lucas Bailey
Why are cops such spastic fucks in Bendis' books?
Landon Foster
Jessica, your banter means nothing, you were already destroyed. Now I actually think this was the reason why she changed her look.
Josiah Hill
Notice how you can only tell Flash from Peter from Clint by the costumes.
He thinks he's still writing Powers
Adrian Jenkins
Is Rocket's line in the previous panel just Bendis trying meta?
Anyway the spaceship has warp drive but let's give Eden some use
Evan Kelly
>Gamora is the adopted daughter of Thanos. >Gets shat on constantly, even though she's reformed, and wants to kill him >Thane is Thanos' son by blood. >Gets a following of worshipers. No questions asked.
Wut?
Mason Johnson
Seriously, Gamora is taken out ALL OF THE TIME in Bendis' Guardians, it's annoying.
Nolan Rivera
Ok, so the whole deal here is that this guy is the planet in some werird way
Joseph Wilson
So was Flash asleep through all that?
Why is he so useless?
Levi Brown
Well, Thane is an Inhuman for once, so he gets a bonus by default in current Marvel. But not having Thane and Gamora interact in the BV shows how little Bendis wanted to have with it
Dylan Morris
Kindun is one ugly ass mother
Dude, we're saying he is useless on panel, this makes him being useless not bad!
Thomas Barnes
I meant why is he so useless in this comic?
I love Flash.
Jeremiah Rogers
For her, it was Tuesday. But boy do I hate this THANOS THANOS THANOS mentions
Grayson King
Crop the first panel and you have Gamora's entire character in this run. Meanwhile, Drax just hangs around, I mean, Thanos is just some guy, isn't he
Ryan Hernandez
So he hates Gamora, but was perfectly fine with dealing with Nebula?
Josiah Green
So the plot for all this was >Gamora was abducted buy some guy who had a beef with MUH THANOS >the Guardians break her out Oh, and Hawkeye and Spider-Woman have some lines and a teleporter.
You're out of luch bruv I mean, stick with this and someday I'm going to post Venom Spaceknight
Dominic Williams
SHIT I DIDN'T POST THE LAST PAGE >So technically what we just read should've gone before the Black Vortex and even before the planet of the symbiotes arc >I've posted it here for imagelimit reasons and for another reason you'll see soon
Jonathan Flores
Aand done
I mean, it's not like Nebula's ENTIRE CHARACTER revolved around wanting to be identified with Thanos' legacy even when he wanted to have nothing with her
Josiah Flores
I hadn't really thought of that Fuck, now that story goes from "stupid" to "completely nonsensical"
Bentley Brooks
This cover gimmick was so stupid I didn't even remember it was a thing
Noah Bailey
Summary of the Black Vortex's consequences for this book: Gamora and Kitty now have a powerup.
Aiden Howard
You'd think they'd be trying to recover from being encased in amber Did Peter even reveal to them that Mr Knife was J'son?
Ian Hall
That haircut is awful
Nathan Evans
What am I looking at? What happens a minute late on classic covers?
That only works with comedy. With action, it just beaks down to "and then they fought some more"
Mason Powell
>Jewish mom teaming up with Kang to stop her daughter from marrying a goy Holy shit I'd read the fuck out of this
Luis Sanchez
Remember that time Claremont tried to make a big deal out of Kitty's father?
Justin Green
>Thor battling the original Guardians *record scratch* *Camera zooms* >So you'll probably wonder how I got here...
Jeremiah Jackson
We animu now
Blake Cook
>it's a Spartax guards episode again
Zachary Nelson
>as simple as it was, Bendis DID NOT understand the premise behind Battleworld, so his Secret Wars minis make absolutely no sense Really? The only thing I remember from his SW minis was that page where Gamora and Valkyrie argue about religion and that other page where there's like 6 different people in the Nova Corps and none of them were Richard
Caleb Thompson
Post-WW2 really screwed with the terms by not having glorious Ministries of War called so
Justin Wood
Is Bendis following up his own joke in the OS tie-in with the Gamemaster/In-betweener comparison?
James Sanchez
No, I mean like how Bendis thought that Battleworld inhabitants did not know what Battleworld was and its structure. and let's not even get into Ultimate End territory
Adrian Adams
I don't fully buy that the Kree empire disappeared overnight because Hala was blown up, those crazy blue militaristic fucks would stick together against the other lesser races instead of fractioning
Dominic Long
>It's a Chitauri episode
Connor Reyes
>all of these missed opportunities at having something here look really alien feeling
Chase Brooks
Drax is literally doing what Taskmaster did on AIM Island
Noah Adams
Guardians of Knowhere had nothing happen for several issues save for a sneak peek at two jobbers he introduced in his ANAD run, bickering, and a pointless flashback.
Like all his tie-ins, it ends in a open ended climax that lazily leaves the main book to finish it; but they're never addressed.
P.s. fuck Ultimate End.
Jayden Allen
>Wait, wasn't *I* a coach in high school until a month ago?
Ian Gonzalez
If this was a bit less of Memelord, say it was even just AvAss' Peter, this scene could've turned out so good
Adam Stewart
He also thought Doom did the whole thing to get back at all earth's heroes.
Also, this the most energy I've seen from Drax in this entire run.
Jeremiah Robinson
>This is madness? >Madness? THIS IS SPARTAX!
Henry Thomas
Secret Wars was the single greatest editorial coordinated project in Marvel's history, literally every book tied in to that, and Brian Micheal Bendis did not bother to read the three lines that were the premise of it. I still can't believe it.
Ian Garcia
Dammit, why couldn't Bendis have ANAD GOTG with the Guardians running Spartax?
Oh wait, that would require him to write sci-fi AND a Political thriller
Benjamin Davis
What did Carol even got to do with the Guardians except be there to save Peter's ass once and in that Nick Fury annual?
Ethan Gonzalez
He writes the stakes and the implications of politics quite well, see Alias, but he never gets into it
Adrian Brooks
Let's not even TRY to imagine what would happen to Spartax's gravity here
Owen Walker
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Leo James
You were saying? >thos fucking scooters
Gabriel Howard
>energy sword Still no godslayer s m h
Angel Howard
A good plan would be to try and understand if they're only there for Gamora again or if they are exacting punishment on the whole planet anyway
Matthew Nelson
>a traveling living planet was more defenses than the capital of a space empire huehuehue
Kayden Howard
>she is inside me L-lewd
Ryan Morgan
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Robert Diaz
ATTENTION EVERYONE FLASH THOMPSON IS DOING SOMETHING USEFUL IN THIS PAGE THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Tyler Lopez
>thinking you can against Thanos just like that Sure, buddy
Nicholas Johnson
Reset the clock
Useful Flash, and Rocket's dumb catchphrase in one page.
Justin Harris
Merciful.
Jeremiah Cook
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Robert Perez
It's like there's a balance, like here A good joke, and the meme catchphrase
Andrew Sanders
Yeah, this is so unlike the Chitauri's established race character, which is... Uh...
Chase Hill
One day I will really have to trace back the origins of the "dual wielding means a swordsman is a pro" meme
Jonathan Nelson
Nebula was on Gamora's lady warrior team during Annihilation. But yeah, movie-bait.
Matthew White
We're going that thing again when a Bendis character cries and tells the others they love them
And this doesn't exactly protect them from people going there imagining that if anyone knows where Gamora is, it's the Guardians
Oliver James
Fuck you're right, in Ronan's mini. I only remembered Ceryse (who died) there
Gabriel Price
AND THEN THE UNIVERSE EXPLODED AND EVERYONE DIED, THE END EXCEPT PETER WAS IN RICHARDS' SHIP AND GOT TO BATTLEWORLD AND WHEN THERE HE WAS A MASSIVE FAGGOT WHO SANG DISNEY SONGS FOR THE LULZ Read all of this in the thread linked in the OP
Carson Price
Why don't we take a trip to Battleworld ourselve?
Connor Brown
I haven't read much cosmic Marvel beyond Annhilation and everything after. Did people frequently come after Gamora for reasons, or is this just something Bendis came up with.
Owen Thomas
At least there won't be good art wasted in this mini