First,
we see Vance rally the troops, and they immediately start to fight back against
the nearly insurmountable odds that they faced just last issue. As the battle is raging, Vance decides to
tell everyone how he got out of his containment suit (it’s a mixture of
Hollywood’s ionic blood and magic. I’m
assuming magic is how he got the bitchin’ headband, but that could just be poor
fashion sense. Everyone continues their
fight, Gabrielle (one of the Comandeers) straight up murders Belle. She was a double agent, so I get it, but you
rarely see that kind of cold-blooded killing in a Marvel book. Yondu’s magic hand changes into a laser gun
and he blasts one of the Punishers as well.
He then goes all emo because apparently a laser is not the weapon of a
true warrior, however an arrow that moves based on how you whistle is…oh Yondu,
don’t ever change. The Guardians
basically win the battle and ask Krugarr to teleport them to the heart of the
refinery so that they may do away with the society-destroying televisions once
and for all. 
In the
meantime we head back out to space where Aleta and Starhawk are still
struggling with one another.
Back to
the refinery, where Charlie is rigging the Punisher tank to go nuclear and take
out the whole refinery. It just so
happens that Boss Punisher and one of the Badoon are still inside the
tank. Vance guilt-trips Charlie into
giving the villains a chance to surrender, which he does. The Badoon doesn’t want to emerge, but the
Boss Punisher decides to take things into his own hands and murders the Badoon
and then surrenders…only to be murdered himself at the hands of Gabrielle. Gabrielle gives Vance a lesson in how things
are done in a gang war as he bitches and moans about trying to be better than
the bad guys while Charlie basically decides that the only way to shut these
two up is to detonate a nuclear bomb, which he does, taking out the
refinery.
We make
a quick stop to Mainframe’s homeworld where Martinex is whining about not being
able to patrol the universe how exactly he wants to or some such nonsense and
that’s it.
We then
are back in New York City in the Avengers’ Mansion Sub-Basement that is now the
makeshift base of operations for the Guardians of the Galaxy. We get the big reveal that Hollywood is
actually Wonder-Man, just aged 1000 years (he can’t die so this makes sense)
and membership in the Guardians is offered to Hollywood (he declines), Krugarr
(he declines) and Talon (of course he accepts).
So far, the Guardians have asked everyone with superpowers that they’ve
come across if they want to be a member, so far the only one that has accepted
that invitation is Talon. That doesn’t
say much for your organization.
The
epilogue revolves around Rancor again looking for answers. She gets them from someone that can basically
track an individual based on something of theirs, kind of like a cosmic
bloodhound. The alien tells Rancor that
who she seeks is on Earth, and Rancor summarily kills that alien, because
Rancor is pretty badass, right? As
Rancor licks the blood of the alien off of her claws (gross, didn’t she learn
anything about cross-contaminating races from the Courgians?) she makes it
known that her main goal is to find Wolverine!
Apparently this comic needed a little boost in sales and everyone knew
that including Wolverine would do that in spades.
Next
issue: Rancor heads to Earth, how much
more blood will she lick, and who’s will it be?
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