Guardians of the Galaxy #17 Review

After spending the last few issues pulling the Guardians apart, issue #17 serves to bring them back together, just in time to make their cinematic debut. The latest from writer Brian Michael Bendis offers the same enjoyable team dynamic that's made the book so enjoyable thus far, but it also features many of the same hang-ups, resulting in an uneven and ultimately pedestrian installment.

With King J-Son finally exposed as the manipulative sour-puss that he is, the bulk of issue #17 is spent traversing the various story lines in order to bring the group together once more. Bendis does a decent job closing each of these threads, but there's a definite sense of ease to the proceedings that makes everything they've been through recently feel largely unimportant in the grand scheme of things. From the ship finding Drax to the sudden miraculous return of Rocket, everything feels remarkably scripted, losing the sense of randomness that's made their continued adventures so engaging.

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