Guardians of the Galaxy #12

Do you like something *other* than Batman?

Yes, I do.

But you could have easily seen that just by seeing what books I review but I guess that wouldn't have been as passive-aggresive as "yOu oNlY lIkE bAtMaN".

But surely star lord becoming the master of the sun, the two moon dragons becoming one, Hercules joining the team as well as marvel boy, and the guardians now being policed and not a free lance team has changed a lot? I don’t see how we’re back to square one. Also I’m not trying to be like rude or anything I’m just genuinely curious

I think you unfairly underrate comics you don't like. I mean, for example, 1.0 to Zdarky's Daredevil? That's just insulting, not a honest rate. Square one? I do not understand your point. Maybe you wish some charachters have died or something, but, square one? Don't make me laugh.

I don't like anything he's done with Star-Lord. He's neither the soldier-ish version from the comics, nor the funny dude from the movie. He's a zen hobo who constantly looks unaware of his surroundings, kinda like Biden. Couldn't care less about the moondragons becoming one. And the Guardians now being police came completely of nowhere, he spent literally two pages on "building" that. More or less, they're in the same place they were in at the beginnig, nothing of essence has changed.

You don't need to kill characters to make them grow or change the position of the characters in their microverse. Hickman didn't kill anyone in HoX-PoX and he managed to completely reshape the mutants and their position in the Marvel universe. Ewing also didn't kill Hulk, he kinda destroyed the concept of killing Hulk if anything but he still managed to create a very interesting premise and a good run. This is clearly not that. This is just him self-indulging in the worst aspects of his writing.

" He's a zen hobo who constantly looks unaware of his surroundings, kinda like Biden." OMG I laughed at this. His star-lord is very crap. moondragon becoming one with a kiss was a choice, like really? just a kiss so they become one, esier and nonsense way to solve a duplicate. I agree that this run is self-indulging on his Ewigsms, no wonder sales for this are bad. he is writing just for the die hards

Yeah, they argued his whole run, there was absolutely no consensus and understanding between the two and then in a second they just waved all that away and they were all okey-dokey. Ewing is a good writer when he has some sort of editorial control over him, I liked his Immortal Hulk and his Loki but then left to his own devices he can be pretty terrible. I remember his pitch for what he wanted to do next with Loki and suffice to say, Marvel pulled the plug on it and with good reason.

He had a lot of space books and team books and he's not very good at neither, I feel like he's better on solo books. Though his start on SWORD so far has been pretty good.

If you think this is "back to square one" you haven't been paying attention at all

Absolute brain-rot on display with this review.

I did say I won't block you but if you keep spamming me just because I don't like what you like I'm afraid I'll have to roll back on that.

That sounds like hypocrisy to me.

From you? Sure. Weren't you the one complaining that I comment on your posts without bringing any arguments? It sure looked like that's what you did here.

Okay, well, we can talk about how most of the cast morphs from issue one to issue twelve, plus the numerous things that had to be set up to allow for the new status quo. These last twelve issues have achieved a ton, and this is in no way "square one".

For the characteres themselves, nothing changed. And what changed aka hobo-StarLord is pretty shitty.

You literally just said "The characters didn't change but how one of the character did change was bad"

Yes, what's the problem? I said the same thing in an earlier comment. For most of the characters nothing changed and for the one character that KINDA changed the direction was bad.

For Gamora, Groot and Rocket nothing changed. Moondragon and Phyla argued the whole book and then reconciled in one page all of a sudden, coming back to the initial stage of their relationship. Hercules is even more weak. The Prince was so cringey it hurt. The only character that Ewing treated well was Nova, that's the only thing I liked. And Cabal's art. A lot of minuses and very, very few good things.

So how is that square one?

Well, none of them grew, they're basically in the same position they were in before #1.

Moondragon is not even the same character as she was before issue one.

But her whole drama with Phyla went nowhere, they argued the whole book and at the end they were like "we're cool k". Great character development. :))

That's not where they left off though. They left off with Phyla admitting that she doesn't love Moondragon. That's not "we're cool K".

Yeah, she "doesn't love all of her" but she wants to "know it all", so they're still together, same as before #1. I'm getting really tired of this back and forth so long story short: I think this was terrible and I stick by it, you think this is good. It's just that I'm tired of all these comments and it's not like you're eager to move away from you what you think of the book and neither will I.

That's overly essentializing. I know you need to keep things basic, but the depth of the average comic goes beyond that.

Depth lol =)))) Yeah, sure, this comic was deep.

The joke was that comics aren't very deep, and yet they still go beyond your comprehension. You missing the joke is like a cherry on top.

The "joke" was no joke at all, or maybe it was all in your head and you forgot to write it down. :))

I get that it's your schtick to deny reality, but don't try to make it mine.

“Tramps and hobos are commonly lumped together, but see themselves as sharply differentiated. A hobo or bo is simply a migratory laborer; he may take some longish holidays, but sooner or later he returns to work. A tramp never works if it can be avoided; he simply travels.”