Kevin
West is back on pencils as this issue picks up with Ripjak ambushing the
Guardians that were searching for him (Talon, Aleta and Yondu). They fight back and forth with Ripjak coming
out on top. He somehow pulls the light,
the source of both her powers and her life, right out of Aleta. As Yondu goes to find help Talon is bested by
Ripjak as well. Ripjak then finds Yondu
and defeats him as well, knocking out three of the most powerful Guardians in
rapid succession. 
The
rest of the Guardians find their teammates’ lifeless bodies but Ripjak is
nowhere to be found. In fact, he
hightailed it right off of Mars completely.
I do wonder how Ripjak avoided detection by the Sentinels when he came
and went, but that, of course, is never explained. The rest of the Guardians stumble upon
Ripjak’s lair as they search for him and while Talon and Yondu don’t seem to be
too bad, Aleta is critically injured, to the point where her Power-Girl-esque
boob-window might not even save her. 
Just
when you think things can’t get weirder, we get the origin of Ripjak! He was the lone survivor of the Martian race,
the lead scientist in charge of saving the planet from a plague. Unfortunately he was the only one that was
saved as he created the antibodies (from the body of Spider-Man) too late to
save anyone else. He then created a
“battle suit” to contain himself (one that gave him pecs and other humanoid muscles
apparently.
Upon
hearing his origin, Ripjak promptly uses the self-destruct feature of his lab
playset and a giant hole is blown in the planet. That’s not the only destruction that Ripjak
is providing though as we see him carry out his mission and incinerate another,
well-inhabited, planet, committing the planetary genocide that got him the
moniker of interplanetary serial killer.
Next Issue: So…the Guardians are dead, right? They have to be. Plus Ripjak is on the loose to kill
again. Damn, these guys suck at this super-hero
thing.
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