mercredi 23 avril 2014

Guardians of the Galaxy #14 Review

STK634889 Guardians of the Galaxy celebrates its 100th issue this week (though it’s number 14 in series scribe Brian Michael Bendis’s run) and Marvel has put together an oversized anniversary issue to celebrate the series’ past, present, and future. The book is made up of three stories, which all vary in terms of success.


Bendis’s next entry in his story comes first, and it welcomes artist Nick Bradshaw to the team in pretty stellar fashion. Bradshaw’s work is a bit of a departure from the typical series art, but it’s a welcome change. Fine linework and a cartoon-esque nature suit a book about space crusaders perfectly, though his art is a bit stiffer than usual at times. The writing is, as usual, perfectly solid with a good dose of comedy dashed in among a story involving the Guardians being picked apart and taken down through the machinations of Star-Lord’s warlord father. Unfortunately, the art takes a noticeable dive in quality when Jason Masters and Todd Nauck take over. Masters is fairly solid but Nauck is not doing his best work here. His pages have poor sense of motion and his facial expressions look like they’ve been copied off of bootlegged action figures.


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