We pick
up this issue right where we left off at the end of number forty-eight. That means that the Guardians are still in
some random, crazy dimension due to Talon’s teleportation. It kind of looks like every random dimension
Dr. Strange teleports people to, but Talon has no idea. To add to that, Yellowjacket touches him on
the shoulder and he continues to whine about his back. Man up, Talon.
We make
a quick pit-stop with Mephisto, still in his fat dread-locked bird getup, and
Malevolence, who are trying to figure out where the Guardians went, before
heading back to the realm of Gods where we find the Beyonder and the Protégé
still held captive. If you remember
correctly, Starhawk and Aleta have journeyed to this realm, a place where
Mortals generally do not go, in order to get the Hawk God to release them from
their “time-out”. Instead, the Hawk God
gives them an even worse time-out. He
strips them of their physical forms and holds them captive as beings of energy. So be careful what you wish for.
Before
we can get to any more action, it’s backstory time again! This time, we get to learn all about the Hawk
God and why he is the red-headed stepchild of the Gods. Apparently, the Hawk God has quite the
temper. Because of this he was confined
as a statue until Starhawk and Aleta (not yet superpowered but still husband
and wife/brother and sister) woke him up.
Now we
are back in the crazy dimension where Talon has finally found his footing and
is able to lock on the Beyonder’s remnant energy pattern to find his way
out. Just as he teleports the Guardians
to the side of the Beyonder in the realm of the Gods, he is snatched away by
Mephisto through some crazy, evil magic.
We are left with a cliffhanger though as the Hawk God decides now is the
time to dispense his judgment. 
That
cliffhanger leads us to a random planet in the Guardians’ galaxy where two
interplanetary police officers (I know this because they have the word
“constabulary” written on their ship) are looking for an intergalactic serial
killer named Ripjak. Instead, they get a
meeting with the mutant Mindscan who offers them clues to the whereabouts of
Ripjak. However, she will only give it
to one of them, so one of the officers straight up murders the other guy.
If you
thought you were done with Talon for this issue, think again! We make a quick stop into the Beyonder’s
universe that has been redecorated by Mephisto to look more like Hell. As Mephisto tries to take Talon’s amulet (the
one given to him by Dr. Strange) he is reminded that it can’t be simply taken
by anyone, it has to be voluntarily provided by Talon (kind of like Thor’s
hammer). When Talon refuses to give it
willingly to Mephisto, Malevolence takes matters into her own hands by shooting
him in the back yet again. Now we get to
listen to him bitch about that some more.
Back in
the realm of the Gods, shit just got real as the Protégé has learned all of the
powers of the omnipotent beings in the vicinity and has become
all-powerful.
Next
issue: It’s the fifty-issue anniversary, and we get more of the same, just
double-sized.
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