Earn Guardians 3000: Time After Time Translated By Dan Abnett Exhibited In Booklet

you're the kind of reader who like comics where the characters make the GrrrAngry face a lot, you're gonna loooove this one.

If not, brace yourself, . .



It took me a few issues before I stopped hating it, but by the end I thought it was sort of cool.

insert me pondering here
Yeah, now that I think about it, I really want to find out what's happening/going to happen with these guys.




Warning: Some Spoilers

So what's the basic story
Something is wrong with TIME.

It's slipping, . . skipping something. And the only one who can see it happening or remember that it happened, is this young woman named Geena.




Geena was in a Badoon labor camp, and was rescued by the Guardians in GotG, because Starhawk told them she was somehow important to saving the universe.
After the rescue, they invited to help save everything by joining the team,
She said, YES! claps wildly



Starhawk, or HeWhoKnows now, SheWho Knows, is the group's precog, and the one who kind of sets them on the right path.
Ish.



It appears that every time, . . er, time resets, Starhawk's gender changes, And Geena, being the only one who remembers the alternate time, is also the only one who notices.

awkward



Beyond all of the timeywimey stuff, the gist of Guardiansis that the Badoon have taken over the whole universe, and everything is in tatters.
The Guardians are sort of the Rebel Alliance, if you will, They're still fighting the good fight, but they can't seem to make any headway ltbecause of time keeps resetting, but they don't know that.
Well, not at first.
But now that they do, they're gonna fight to fix it!



These guys are all sorta weird, so I think it took me a while to warm up to them.
Now, if you're a huge fan of cosmic stuff, it might be a whole lot easier for you than it was for me.
The first few issues, you're just kind of thrown into the craziness of the battles with the Badoon, the stuff about time resetting, and all of these characters with their strange powers.




However,
I did think that this volume did a good job after those initial issues of introducing some of the characters, and explaining enough for me to feel somewhat comfortable.
And even if I don't know all of them, it gave me the impression that if I hung around long enough, I would.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, . .



Vance Astro aka Major Victory has a little bit of an origin story in this, and you learn that he volunteered to be frozen and shot into space in an explorerlike mission.
It was the only way for him to travel to the end of the galaxy or wherever, because hypersuperduperlight speed or whatever wasn't possible.
But, unfortunately, when he was found and thawed out, . .
Oops! Sorry, dude! Yeah, we cracked that codeyears ago,
So, yeah, he was kind of obsolete, and his mission was useless, Whatever the scientists had done to him, though, gave him supersomething, And his life force no actual idea was sorta saran wrapped inside of him, making him immortal, Also, for some yet unexplained reason, he has Captain America's shield,
So, now he fights

galactic crime!



There's also Old Lady Nova forgot her name, who is the last surviving member of the Nova Corps.

Is it just me, or does that seem to happen a lot to the NC How many times can these guys get completely wiped off the map, anyway
Doesn't matter.
I thought it was pretty awesome that this geriatric was still a bit of an asskicker, so she gets my vote to stay on the team!



Oh! And look! It's some distant relative of our StarLord!
He's a rascally rouge named Peter, as well.
So, yeah cute.



Yondu, . . who controls his arrows by whistling,



Martinex, who shoots/controls fire and ice, I think!



And Charlie, who was again, I think genetically engineered to work on Jupiter, so he has super bone density amp muscle mass.
Which, makes him crazystrong everywhere but Jupiter



Last, some chick named Nikki, Not sure what she does, but she sure as hell liked blowing shit up! Unfortunately, nobody on the team seemed to remember who she was, so I'm guessing their memory of her went to the same place as Starhawk's penis.




Maybe this time stuff ties into Secret Wars I'm tempted to keep going with this title for that reason alone, but even if it doesn't, this team grew on me enough to read the second volume.
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