It’s time
to wrap up the Galactic Guardians miniseries, the first (and only) spin-off for
the Marvel 3000 line.
This issue
starts with a proclamation from Mainframe that the main villain that was
revealed to us at the end of last issue, Ubiquitor, has appeared on every world
simultaneously. This obviously raises
the stakes for the Guardians in that if they fail to defeat her and her
footsoldiers, the rest of the galaxy will fall.
Hollywood gets the action started by attacking Silverback.
After a
quick aside where we learn that Hollywood and Vision regained their
consciousness and memories (Vision used a separate body to go wake Hollywood up
and replace his memories, which were absorbed and transferred into his mind
from the memories scattered on the ground) we see Mainframe attack Savant and
overload his mind, knocking him out of the fight.
Hold the
phone…it’s origin time! This time we
learn that Ubiquitor is a member of a race known as the absolutes, one of the
last of her kind, that thrives on the creation and destruction of universes
(which is where her team of baddies comes from, former universes that she destroyed). While it’s an interesting origin, part
Galactus, part Phoenix, it’s still pretty boilerplate stuff and shows why
Ubiquitor hasn’t made some kind of comeback.
Speaking of
Phoenix, Ubiquitor sees the potential power in him and whisks him away to a
separate plane of reality. While they are
gone, a little teamwork by Replica and Martinex takes care of Hazmat, while
Ghost Rider disposes of Ganglia by sending it to Hell. Out in space, Hollywood and Silverback are
still going at it when Mainframe teleports them both to the edge of a black
hole. Even though Hollywood isn’t being
sucked into the black hole, Silverback sure is.
Hollywood tries to hold on to him and not let him die, which is very
Avenger-y, but he cannot and Silverback is gone. Hollywood then flies back to the ship, pissy
that he couldn’t save the bad guy.
We finally
check in on Ubiquitor and Phoenix as she makes a pitch to him to join forces
with her. He rebuffs her advances
though, as we all assumed he would, and really that is the best idea, look what
happened to all of her other minions.
They fight back and forth, neither combatant gaining an upper hand, that
is until Woden shows up and offers his hammer’s power to be combined with that of
Phoenix. Together they dispatch of Ubiiquitor
pretty handily. In the grand Guardians
of the Galaxy tradition, Woden is offered membership in the Galactic Guardians
to which he declines. As he flies back
to Asgard, Phoenix returns to the ship.
As we close the series we see that the only individual happy that
everyone is still alive and working as a team is Martinex. No one else is remotely satisfied with this
outcome, just like no one else should be satisfied with this limited series. The artwork was generally better than that of
its parent title (having Kevin West pencil the whole thing instead of providing
breakdowns alone helped immensely) but the story was still pretty silly and
unimaginative.
Next Issue:
Back to the Guardians of the Galaxy!
Before we get to the regular series though we have one more stop to make
in the fourth and final annual, and this one’s a doozy.
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