Please
welcome to the fold, new regular penciler: Kevin West! Let’s watch over the course of the rest of
this book as West transforms from a fairly good, fairly realistic penciler, to
another shitty Liefeld clone. I have a
feeling this had more to do with Marvel requesting that West adhere more to
their house style in the 90s (which happened to be crap) than with him actually
doing this on his own.
We open
this issue on a heated argument between Vance and Charlie as the original
mission of destroying the Badoon has resurfaced now that the whole doppelganger
bullshit has finished. As they fight,
Starhawk jumps in to stop them, meaning that he somehow got control of his body
back from Aleta last issue (which would explain her scream I suppose). While Vance stays behind, the rest of the
Guardians head to their spaceship and make out for the Badoon homeworld.
Let’s
make a quick stop under the dome, where Rancor and the mutants are being
held. Rancor is pissed, scratching and
clawing at stuff like an angry cat, until Dr. Doom shows up.
That’s
it for that, back to Vance, who is actually thinking of betraying his teammates
and warning the Badoon of their impending arrival, even though it means that
he’ll most likely be condemning his friends to death. Not only is he thinking about it, he actually
sends the transmission, tattling on his teammates (which picks up a strange
entity along the way). Vance Astro is a
douche. I know that he is saving the
Badoon from extermination, but this move still makes him a douche.
On the
Guardians’ ship, Starhawk is struggling with Aleta trying to overtake his
body. It is apparently emitting so much
energy that Charlie banishes him from the ship, lest he destroy it
completely.
Talon,
the only member of the team left that was not personally touched by the Badoon
tries to reason with Charlie and Nikki, stating that their preemptive strike
might not be a great idea. Nikki
reassures him be regaling us all with her history and then crying about
it. I understand that she is probably
quite emotional about this, but what I don’t understand is how someone that has
such a high body temperature is even able to cry without the tears immediately
evaporating. Those tears seem to
convince Talon of the validity of their quest though.
On the
Badoon homeworld, Vance’s transmission has come through, but so has the
stowaway. An energy surge hits the
Badoon manning the controls, momentarily knocks him out then brings him back
full of power.
On
Earth, Vance terminates the signal, having a change of heart about tattling on
his friends. Little does he know that
the damage is done.
On
Earth in the thirty-first century, the Punishers are slowly but surely being
defeated by the Commandeers.
Unfortunately, the Commandeers have bigger fish to fry as Retox, a gang
based around the Realiteevee that the Guardians destroyed many issues ago, are
looking to get their fix and make things miserable for everyone.
Back in
the present day, Charlie loads a nuke to destroy the Badoon and Vance continues
to brood about his decision, until he gets stopped by Captain America.
Next
issue: It’s a bro-tastic adventure as Cap and Vance go all Thelma and
Louise…just kidding. It’s Guardian vs.
Guardian as the slow demise of Kevin West’s talent continues.
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