I know,
you’ve waited for a long time to see this, the secret origin of the Guardians,
and I don’t blame you for being excited as we have been teased with the “War of
the Worlds” that basically wiped out most of the life on Earth and the Badoon
committing genocide on multiple planets as major turning points in the origin
of the Guardians, so it’ll be nice to fina….wait, what’s that? The War of the Worlds is not touched on and
the Badoon genocide is basically all done by the time we join this origin
story? Well shit, ok, let’s get this
over with.
The
secret origin starts with Charlie-27 coming back from an incredibly long (six
month) patrol. When no one is there to
greet him upon his arrival, he gets suspicious, and when the Badoon show up and
start shooting at him, it’s confirmed, something is up and his people are
toast. Instead of sticking around
though, he decides to enter an interstellar teleporter (or actually, the Badoon
decide for him as they continue to chase and shoot at him until he teleports). Charlie doesn’t even have the opportunity to
choose his destination as he has to get the hell out of dodge to avoid certain
death. Luckily, Starhawk is pulling the
strings to bring the Guardians together (which is basically the whole gist of
this issue, and we get that reveal on page four) so he sets the teleporter for
Pluto, Martinex’s home planet.
Once
Charlie is on Pluto, he’s greeted by more Badoon, and their creepy winged-cat
things. As he is running from them, he
bumps into Martinex, who was just about to abandon Pluto as he is the last of
his race left (he’s spent the last few months destroying files and research so
it doesn’t fall into the hands of the Badoon).
Charlie and Marty then escape using another teleporter, this one set for
Earth as they assume that Earth would be the last planet to fall. They are probably correct, but they are also
too late, as Earth has fallen.
This is shown to be true because
Vance Astro is held captive in front of a Badoon king (you can tell he’s the
king because of the pope-hat crown he’s wearing). We then get to learn all of Vance’s origin,
being shot into space to check out a distant planet, but instead the technology
for interstellar travel is developed only a few short years later, making his
journey unnecessary. Instead of getting
a regular job, Vance decides to explore the terrain he was sent to explore
anyway, even though it has already been explored for years. It’s here that he meets up with Yondu, who is
in super-savage mode (you can tell because of the ratty loincloth). Vance and Yondu become tenuous partners from
tehn on. In fact, that partnership is
about to be broken as the Badoon king instructs Vance to kill Yondu, but
instead, they escape. As they are
getting to the teleporters, Charlie and Marty arrive. Everyone fights off the Badoon and they
escape. It is then that they decide to
band together as the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Next issue: We get to learn the
secret of Talon (tell me you’re super excited about that one, considering the
fact that Talon is such an awesome character).
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