Death's Head, yes? Yes!!! I've loved this character since I was a kid back in the UK, reading Marvel UK's weekly comics. Introduced in Transformers, shrunk to human size by Doctor Who - he has one of the most random back stories in Marveldom and is 15 kinds of awesome. Strange that they have made him his original, Transformer fighting size (he was shrunk just so it wouldn't look quite so weird when he interacted with human-size characters), but I have no real complaints. He could have just played tic-tac-toe with Tony for the issue & my heart would have been just as full of joy.
I really, really want to like this new take, but I really, really don't. This isn't the GotG that I know and love. This is some Iron Man book set on Earth. I'm still waiting for Bendis to give any of the Guardians a personality. It goes to show how much faith you have in your characters when you feel you need Iron Man to carry the book, pretty much re-imagine Peter & incapacitate Groot before the end of issue 1. And "Blam! Murdered you!" is not a cute catchphrase. It's quite disturbing actually. DnA's GotG was a cool, funny book, allowed to do its own thing in its little corner of the Marvel Universe. It was rebellious & a bit rock & roll. I thought that was the version i was going to see on the big screen. This is bland & forgettable, written by a writer with one eye on Hollywood. It breaks my heart that I may drop this...
This issue had all the hallmarks of "written when drunk". Rulk's random act of violence, fried Cage getting himself to the Savage Land & the big shrug his revelation then received, ridiculous decompression everywhere then a 4 panel trip to the Antarctic. All this & the knowledge that it will all be reset after the series anyway, so nothing matters.
Speaking of fan service, J. Scott Campbell's obviously been reading up on his composition. If you use the rule of thirds, the main focal point of the cover lies exactly where he decided to draw her boobs.
G-Man, I'm a bit disappointed with your comment about the Orson Scott Card controversy. OSC doesn't just have anti-gay beliefs, he actively campaigns against gay rights. If he actively campaigned against African-American rights, or was on a commitee trying to restrict Latino immigrants' right to have children, would you feel differently? Would DC? It's not a Freedom of Speech issue - no one is trying to ban him from preaching his ideas - the issue is more that DC felt it ok to employ someone who preaches hate towards a minority.
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