Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1

With four different stories and four different art teams, all the work is top-notch"even more so with Filipe Andrade and Mike Spicer's art on "You're Only Young Once." Read Full Review

Worth a read if you like Cosmic Marvel, but not vital to the main GOTG series if you're not. Read Full Review

The Cosmo-centric Faith is more of a book-ending series of pages than a full story, placed at the beginning and end of the issue, but it's not lacking intrigue. It seems our favorite talking (Russian) dog is being controlled by a shadowy Cabal seeking to unite the others for less-than-savory means, and were told itll be followed up in next months issue of Guardians. TBD! John McCreas brief art is worth a mention, if only because of how cute he renders Cosmo. Never underestimate the power of a cute animal. Read Full Review

An annual to a comic featuring no one from the comic, and tying into events that have not been published yet. Despite the mess of the way this book is handled there is some worthwhile material here. If you are a new Guardians reader you may be confused on why the characters in this book matter, but I bet you will still find something to enjoy. If you are familiar with Marvel Cosmic there may be more in here for you. Personally, I feel this comic is worth picking up for Tini Howard's section alone. Read Full Review

This issue doesn't feel essential even for regular GotG readers, but the stories presented are entertaining and deal with some complicated topics relatively well. Read Full Review

The individual chapters aren't bad, but this issue never feels like its telling a real story Read Full Review

An okay middling issue that establishes what's going on in the Marvel Universe. Read Full Review

mrDovydas

Jun 11, 2019

Completely skippable, but a very good read consisting of a few short stories. Pick it up if you're interested in Marvel Cosmic, and/or the current GOTG series. I Wouldn't mind having issues like this on a regular basis, just to showcase what's happening in various corners of the cosmos.

allenquanobi

Jul 17, 2019

not necessary to the current guardians story, but could be useful for future stories that it's setting up

samizrozami

Mar 31, 2025

Rich is the best

Kalaoui

Jun 10, 2019

Not essential at all. Al Ewing and Cates stories are good but the other two were clunky and murky maybe by design but it didn't land right for me. Art was good too and nothing spectacular.

CrazyforRAMU

Dec 27, 2019

A status update on some of the MIA cosmic heroes goes well, presenting a nice variety of stories for them. Well, until the end, when it's revealed most of them have been suborned by a mega-bad-news new antagonist. This is more engaged with its main series than usual for an annual, and I think the change is refreshing. That format takes it teetering to the edge of must-read territory (for readers following the Guardians, at least), and solid creative performances tip it on over.

Lucas

Jul 16, 2023

Ibrahim Moustafa's art and Jay David Ramos's colors in Warlock's story were gorgeous.

Psycamorean

Jun 07, 2019

The Donny Cates and AL Ewing stuff were well written and I'm excited to see the Universal Church of Truth in action again (outside of the Old Man universe, of course). Al Ewing's Nova story did such a great job setting things up. The Adam Warlock story was a bit clunky. I see what they were going for, but the dialogue wasn't great. The Darkhawk story felt so inconsequential compared to the rest and the art didn't help.

Spacey Medicine

Jul 08, 2019

Some good, some bad. What I liked, I loved, what I didn’t, I didn’t.

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

Aug 15, 2019

Meh.