Everything
we have learned to this point about the War of the Worlds has involved a huge
hole where the fate of Spiderman is concerned.
Even the definitive War of the Worlds story, the three-parter that took
place between issue fifty, Galactic Guardians number one and the fourth annual
was vague as to what definitively happened to Spider-Man as his body was
apparently taken back to Mars. The cover
of this issue shows Spider-Man’s costume.
Does this mean Spidey himself is alive and well on Mars? I doubt it, it’s been 1000 years, but they
sure as shit will let us believe anything in order to buy the book. 
The
good news here is that Scott Eaton is back as guest penciller. While Kevin West was good at what he did,
having a fresh “voice” for the artwork has been a nice change of pace. We open on Mars, where the Guardians are
about to enter the airspace of a planet that has been quarantined since the attack
on Earth. In order to enforce that
Quarantine, Sentinels (the old X-Men villains) have been dispatched to watch
over the planet and prevent any interference.
They are an old, outdated technology though and are easily dispatched by
the Guardians. Gallagher tries to build
up tension, and drags out the fight, but once you hear Vance say to the crew
that Sentinel technology is “outdated” you know the outcome. 
Vance
and Talon get into yet another fight, one that Nikki breaks up, leading to one
of the weirdest looking panels I have seen in this comic, then we get another
account of the War of the Worlds (hooray!)
After that we head down to Mars where Ripjak has seen all of this
unfold, even though the Guardians had their ship cloaked the whole time. The Guardians teleport down to the surface of
Mars and immediately see a museum of sorts and begin to look around. It is a museum of the war, complete with the costumes and armor of Earth’s fallen
heroes. Vance sees Captain America’s
mask and gets all fanboyish. He opens
the container housing the mask in order to take it and it disintegrates. Let’s
get this straight, Vance is on the search for an interplanetary serial killer,
someone that has not just killed people, but committed mass genocide, and Vance
Astro is more concerned with antiquing.
God damn I hate this character.
We see
the Guardians going through more of the museum, complete with videos of the
attack, until they stumble upon Spider-Man’s costume. They are also greeted by a sarcophagus
emblazoned with Spider-Man’s face. Apparently
the Martians were so taken aback by Spidey fighting them till the bitter end
that they had his body enshrined after his death. They then removed his body from the
sarcophagus because the scientists were attempting to create antibodies from
his blood to counteract a plague sweeping through their planet.
As you
ruminate on that nugget of history, we are transported to deep space, where
Starhawk begins his quest to learn who is true parents are.
Back on
Mars, Talon and Vance get into another argument (enough Gallagher, we get it,
they don’t like each other) and Talon, Aleta and Yondu split from the rest of
the group to go and find Ripjak. We end
the issue with Ripjak welcoming their arrival, and their death.
Next Issue: Hopefully someone dies, or at least Talon and
Vance stop acting like little bitches, and can we please hear about the War of
the Worlds again!?
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