First
things first, let’s start with a one-page recap of the four storylines going on
right now. Now that that’s out of the
way, Hollywood can get his ass kicked by Overkill, the Stark warrior that keeps
losing to the Guardians but comes back for more time after time. Will this finally be the last dance for
Overkill or has he actually come up against someone that he can beat? My money is on Overkill’s track-record of
futility, but let’s find out together.
The
fight starts out as you would expect.
Two characters pummeling eachother through deep space. It ends with Hollywood holding Overkill’s own
gun to his head. This just proves how
terrible Overkill is, and yet he just won’t die. Instead of killing himself and putting us all
out of our misery, he surrenders and decides to tell his story to
Hollywood. Now, Hollywood has no idea
who this asshole is, so the idea that Overkill is going to recount his origin
story to the guy that just kicked his ass makes a smidgen of sense if you think
about it in terms of the fact that Hollywood probably wants to know what the
hell just happened, but we’ve been reading this since day one. We know who Overkill is and what a terrible
character he has turned out to be. I
don’t need to hear his origin again. Of
course that was all a ruse so that Overkill can fire upon Hollywood when his
guard is down. There is no honor in
shitty characters. 
While
Hollywood and Overkill continue their fight we look in on Starhawk and Aleta
who have decided the best course of action is remove themselves from reality
and go talk to the Hawk God directly, in front of the rest of the Gods (his
superiors) to be precise.
Back to
the Guardians, who are still having a Hell of a time with Mephisto (get it? Get
it?) Out of nowhere, Talon decides to do
a little magic and whisk everyone away.
Why he couldn’t do this earlier, I don’t know. And don’t say it had something to do with his
back because he doesn’t need to stand in order to cast a spell.
Back to Hollywood and Overkill, who is pouring on everything that he can in order to
ensure victory…except it doesn’t matter because Hollywood is still
Hollywood. Instead of dying like a
decent creature, Overkill activates his self destruct sequence on his
suit. Unfortunately the power generated
by that blast will wipe out most life in the area, and not just silently
smother Overkill with a pillow or something.
This is a double bummer because Superman is nowhere to be found to throw
him into the sun either. Hollywood just
hugs Overkill instead, absorbing the blast that (hopefully) finally kills
Overkill. We don’t see him die but if
you pray hard enough to the Hawk God he won’t come back.
Next
issue: after finally getting rid of Overkill I don’t care what they throw at
us, but I bet it has to do with the Joffrey Protégé.
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