![]() ![]() The first issue is a blisteringly good start, riffing on Luke’s rescue of Leia in A New Hope before switching to Groot in an alien WWE-style wrestling match, and then throwing in one action set piece after another: foot chase, gun fight, imprisonment, and multiple villains appearing. And while he’s not as great a writer as he is an artist, his Rocket series does read quite well. I’ve been a fan of Young’s art for a long time now but I wasn’t sure if he had the writing chops to pull off a title on his own steam. Skottie Young picks up this strand and kicks off his Rocket (and Groot) solo (but really duo) series with the mysterious other hunting down Rocket in A Chasing Tale. The Ming Doyle-drawn Rocket story ended with him realising he wasn’t the last of his kind, as he previously thought. To accompany the print issues, Bendis wrote a limited run of four Infinite Comics – Marvel’s digital line - with each one focusing on an individual character in the team: Drax, Gamora, Groot and Rocket (Star Lord had the first print issue all to himself). His Guardians series was fairly good (at least to start with) and did the job nicely - Guardians is now a top 10 bestselling comic for Marvel AND a major hit movie. Last year (2013) in the run up to the Guardians of the Galaxy movie this past summer (2014), Brian Michael Bendis was given the task of re-launching the Guardians of the Galaxy comic to prep and gee up the audience in advance. I especially enjoyed the comic that was Groot telling a story about Rocket in which, of course, all of the dialogue and captions consist only of “I Am Groot!” Skottie Young creates a fun adventure that lets Rocket shine as the lovable scoundrel who is always ready with a quip, a plan, or a threat depending on the situation, and he sprinkles in enough emotional moments to make it more than just a madcap romp in the life of an interstellar raccoon. So I was a little worried that the movie popularity was going to have Marvel pushing him in the easy direction of cheap laughs by just having him be the cute animal with a big gun and a bad attitude.Īnd there are plenty of laughs here, but we’re laughing with Rocket, not at him. He can also be the voice of experience and wisdom as well as the heart of the team when written well. Yeah, yeah….I know we’re talking about a heavily armed talking space raccoon in a comic book, but anyone who has seen the Guardians of the Galaxy movie or read Abenett & Lanning’s run on the comic knows that Rocket at his best is more than just a joke about the smart-ass rodent with a gun. I was a little put off by the artwork in this one at first because I thought it was too cartoony to do Rocket justice. Rocket stages a prison break with his buddy Groot and sets out to get some answers, but he’s also got a pack of angry ex-girlfriends on his tail that are hell bent on killing him. He’s even more stunned when he learns the real killer is another armed raccoon because he thought he was one of a kind. Rocket Raccoon has shot more than a few people in his time guarding the galaxy, but he’s shocked to be accused of multiple murders.
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