Thursday, January 15, 2015

Not so New Comic Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (1991) #60

                So last issue we learned that Starhawk’s father was Quasar.  This issue opens with the revelation that Quasar is dead.  Bummer.  After finding out this tidbit of information, Starhawk is confronted by the Silver Surfer, who wants his Quantum bands back so that he can resume his duties as protector of the universe and stop Galactus from eating everything.  Starhawk doesn’t want to give them up though as this is the closest he has got to finding out his origin.  And in grand Guardians tradition, they fight about it.

                They go back and forth, neither gaining the upper hand until…the Quantum bands just go back to the Silver Surfer anyway.  Apparently they always return to the protector of the universe, no matter what.  So, in another grand Guardians tradition, these two fought over absolutely nothing as the Surfer didn’t actually win the bands back.  The Surfer takes off and Starhawk enters another dimension where he encounters the Hawk God.  The Hawk God attacks and seriously wounds him…until Starhawk exits that dimension and then he is healed again.  

                That health is short lived though as he is approached by The Abrogate, apparently the same being that killed Quasar now kills Starhawk. 

                We leave Starhawk this issue and focus in on Yellowjacket who is being held captive by Slagg because of her association with Charlie.  He has done the smart thing of taking her pym particles from her so she can’t change her size, but he didn’t remove the “emergency pills” from her pouches (hey, those pouches aren’t just for show after all!)

                She defeats Slagg and then decides that she is leaving this timeline for good and going back to the “present day” (because apparently time travel is so commonplace now you can just purchase it like tickets to the opera). 

                Next Issue: Is Starhawk really dead?  Is Yellowjacket really gone?  Does anyone really care?

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