In
order for Starhawk to find out more about his parents, he first must save the
Silver Surfer from the Saturnian Hound Hawks (they basically look like flying
white cats) who are coming to feast on him.
Of course, this isn’t difficult for someone that travels at the speed of
light, so he quickly avoids them. That
is the problem with any threat to many of the Guardians, especially Starhawk,
he is so powerful that you never expect anything to really be his undoing. 
After
saving, then healing, the Surfer, Starhawk learns that the Surfer’s current
condition has come at the hands of Galactus.
Apparently, even though that has been their arrangement, the Surfer
finding sustenance for Galactus, Galactus is tired of the Surfer’s choices in
terms of places to eat. So, in grand
Guardians tradition, Galactus just up and attacks the Surfer, and goes off
to…find a new planet to devour I guess?
While
the Surfer is out of sorts, Starhawk notices the Quantum bands around his
wrists and thinks that they might hold a clue as to his parents’ origins, and
therefore his own. However, it is not
his place to touch the Quantum bands as they are supposed to be passed from the
former to the new protector of the universe.
This is punctuated by Eon showing up and attacking him for even
attempting to use the Quantum bands. Eon
tries to return Starhawk to his child-form but somehow Starhawk bypasses that
and ages before Eon’s eyes until he is right back where we started. I’m not sure if Eon is just not as powerful
as we thought, or if Starhawk is more powerful than we thought, but this
display changes Eon’s mind and he gives Starhawk the Quantum bands anyway. So, again, a whole lot of fluff to get us to
where we were going anyway.
Starhawk
was correct though, as placing the bands on his wrists shows him that his
father was actually Quasar, the former protector of the universe (and I believe
he was an Avenger at one point too).
This ends this story as we have to wait until the next issue to see how
that all shakes out.
In the
meantime we turn our attention to Nikki, on some distant planet somewhere, in a
story entitled “The Fire Down Below” which may or may not have to do with
venereal disease.
Nikki
has just gotten groceries (oranges and liquor from the looks of her bag) and is walking home in
a shady neighborhood when, surprise surprise, a couple no-good-niks show up to
rain on her parade. After getting
roughed up a bit by them she uses her fire-powers on them in order to get them
to back off…which does nothing but remove their shirts (their pants are
apparently flame retardant). Nikki then
uses a solar flare to blind them instead, and when their vision returns,
Charlie is standing in front of them and beats the tar out of them. Before we leave this party though, one of the
attempted rapists says that he knows something about more Jovians being
around. For those of you that forgot,
the Jovians are Charlie’s race, a race that was supposedly exterminated by the
Baddoon. Charlie and Nikki then call
Vance and tell him that they’re not coming back as they are going to find the
lost colony of Jovian slaves.
Next
issue: More Starhawk-y goodness with some Yellowjacket fun on the side.
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