A new
title! A new team! The same creative team behind it though, so
let’s see if it’s just more of the same.
For those of you uninitiated with the Galactic Guardians, it is an
offshoot of the Guardians of the Galaxy, made up of characters that the
Guardians have encountered in their first fifty issues, led by former Guardian
Martinex. Okay, everyone on board? Let’s proceed.
We begin by
finding out that Mainframe, the computer consciousness of former Avenger Vision
is ill and must take himself off-line. This
is obviously not a good thing as Mainframe actually powers a world of thousands
if not hundreds of thousands of people.
If he just quit it would mean chaos and certain death. There is a back up plan though, and it means
taking the most powerful member of the Galactic Guardians out of
commission. Phoenix must use his power
to keep the world going while Mainframe is shut down. Way to stack the odds against the team from
the get-go.
Martinex
dispatches the rest of the Galactic Guardians, at this point only Firelord and
Ghost Rider, to deal with an external threat while sending Replica into
Mainframe in order to determine what the problem is that requires a shut
down. Replica gladly obliges and we
leave her to exploring as our attention turns to Hollywood who is pissed that
he had to fight Overkill over in the Guardians of the Galaxy book so he takes
it out on the poor alien that gave him the information. Just as he’s about to get information out of
the little alien guy he is blipped out of existence. 
Back to
Replica, who is still in the midst of searching through Mainframe when she
comes across a pile of goo. Martinex
tells her to take a sample and she resists so he goes all Vance Astro and tells
her to do her job. Now, I understand
being firm when dealing with a team member that is not performing, but why is
every “leader” character that Gallagher writes the exact same cookie
cutter? It’s like all he did was watch
the old Fox X-Men cartoon and copy
Cyclops’ dialogue.
Back to
Hollywood, who is now on an isolated planet with Vision, in his old Avengers
getup. We get to learn why Hollywood is
so pissed at Vision, and it all stems around the fact that during the War of
the Worlds, all the heroes died and instead of Hollywood being there to help,
he was teleported away by Vision at the last moment. He blames Vision for not letting him die with
the heroes.
We now
switch our focus to the rainbow bridge of Asgard as Heimdall comes to face with
Silverback, a strange alien creature who wants entry. Heimdall denies him this so he does what any
self-respecting monster would do and attacks him. This can’t stand though and Woden, Thor’s
kid, shows up to beat him back. And
that’s how it ends…for now.
We do get
the second part of Future History though that tells us what happened to the
mutants and how they left the planet early and came to settle on Haven. In short, it’s a concise version of the
history we saw thirty some issues ago.
Next
Issue: More fun with Woden, and Martinex
acts like a douche.
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