THE FINAL GAUNTLET pts IV-VI
Written by Donny Cates
Penciled by Geoff Shaw
Published April-June 2019
The Guardians land on Half World and immediately find Gamora, who after a quick fight, acquiesces to flee with them on the run from Eros. Nova soon finds them but unfortunately leads Gladiator and the Dark Guardians right to them. The fight between the two factions is brutal, and ends with Peter Quill lying unconscious in the dirt.
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| Oh get up, you big baby... |
When he comes to, Gamora has been taken. But luckily Beta Ray Bill has an ace up his sleeve. Lockjaw from the Inhumans is summoned and before long, their group is once again energized. They'll have to hurry though. Gladiator tries to carry out Gamora's death sentence but is interrupted by Thanos' boyfriend, Hela. Now learning that the entire search for his daughter was just a trail of breadcrumbs to find Eros, it's he that turns out to be the hidden Mad Titan's personality.
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| "GRAAHHH!" - Eros, 2019. |
Once again reunited with Gamora, the Guardians storm Knowhere. As Frank Castle finds himself in real hell, Gamora makes a break for Eros, stabbing her uncle in the back and stopping the transfer of Thanos' conscience into his old body. With the mad titan now only half complete, Hela fires a black hole cannon at Beta Ray, who reflects it back at Thanos' body.
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| Even being dead, people still wanna take Thanos shots. |
With Lockjaw racing to save the Guardians, the celestial's head explodes - stranding Hela and the Black Order to float into space. Meanwhile the team does it's best to relax. Inviting them all to join the squad, everyone's on board but Gladiator and Nova. They discuss the next order of business being to find Rocket, but we'll have to wait.. because this storyline, The Final Gauntlet - is over.
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| Ok Rock-Dogg - it's your turn! |
So It only took a few issues to get the team back in some semblance of shape. Groot is still able to talk. Plus Moondragon and Phyla being involved makes it a nice throwback to some previous Guardian iterations. Just got to find Rocket and maybe Cosmo and we're in business. And I think one of those guys... er raccoons is just around the corner. For this one though, I give it a 9/10.
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