With my pull list undergoing a constant trimming process due to the dual pressures of quality control and financial restraint, it's getting to the state where every comic I read I consider worthy of the label "top of the pile".Now, of course, that could mean I write a hasty review of every single title, but that's not what HeroPress is about. I see its role as being "suggesting" a couple of titles a month that I've enjoyed.
If you want in-depth, quality, comic-literate reviews of Marvel and DC's weekly output there are far better places to look - such as Has Boobs, Reads Comics; The Heretics Blog; and Paradox Comics Group, to name but three.
All that said, although I've pretty much given up on Marvel these days, I'm still really loving Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's writing on Guardians Of The Galaxy.
Unlike the character of Jack Flag in this title I don't "hate cosmic stuff" - and the team of Abnett and Lanning are the masters of cosmic storylines in the Marvel Universe at present.
Their latest storyline, about the aftermath of the Kree-Shi'ar war, even has distinct Lovecraftian overtones with creatures from "outside reality" clawing their way into our dimensions through rips in the fragile space-time continuum - which is simply the icing on the cake!
And the final sequence in issue 20 is most definitely a guest appearance by an avatar of Cthulian god Nyarlathotep.
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Rocket Raccoon is one of my favourite Marvel characters, but I've been completely put off by the crossover-saturated Marvel Universe of today, so I've not been following Guardians of the Galaxy (although I did pick up the team's original appearances in the second Annihilation crossover). Now we've got Rocket and Nyarlathotep in one comic, I may have to buckle and take a look!
As I've said, this is one of the last few Marvel titles I pick up so the crossover-saturation doesn't really touch me. This is so far away from Marvel-Earth that it's generally contained in its own little bubble of brilliance. I can highly recommend Guardians Of The Galaxy.
Well, you say that, but I look up there and see a "Realm of Kings" banner. Is that not a crossover running through all the cosmic stuff?
Oh well, either way, I'll probably pick up this issue at least, since I can't really resist Rocket and Nyarlathotep!
Yes, it was - but it was just the "cosmic" titles and this is more of an "aftermath" story, dealing with the fall-out from the war. The war itself, I kinda lost track of, but I got the general idea of what was going on from just reading this title.
Well, that's enough of a recommendation for me!
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