There’s something terribly, terribly wrong with Groot
Just in time for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the final installment of the blockbuster trilogy that kiiiiinda put it on the comics map in the first place, the Guardians of the Galaxy have a brand-new comic in which the team is… very different from their movie incarnations. Honestly, I admire the chutzpah.
It’s been about two years since the Guardians had their own Marvel Comic series, and this new series, penned by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly with art from Kev Walker, is leaning into the mystery of their very changed circumstances — especially Groot’s.
What turned Groot into a force of interstellar malice, a swarm of roots and branches that makes cataclysmic visits to planet after planet, roots and branches seeking everything and everyone they can root into?
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Guardians of the Galaxy #1 presents that question centrally, as we pick up with a Guardians team that movie fans would know by name — Peter Quill, Gamora, Nebula, Mantis, and Drax (Groot’s buddy Rocket conspicuously absent) — in medias res. They’re kitted out like a space Western and trying to convince a backwater space town to get on their ship and evacuate before the worst happens.
The worst is “grootfall,” the arrival of a titanic ball of scraggly plant matter with a face, and it wants make everyone Groot. Our team barely makes
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