Reviews

Guardians of Knowhere by Mike Deodato, Brian Michael Bendis, Jim Cheung

albertico66's review

1.0

"Huh?" was my reaction after reading this. Might be the worst Secret Wars tie-in yet.

ericbuscemi's review

4.0

This is four issues of the Guardians of the Galaxy vs. Yotat vs. Thor Corp. Angela vs. The Nova Corps. It's entirely skippable as far as the main Secret Wars story-line goes, but it's a fun, pretty diversion.

earlapvaldez's review

2.0

Good art, but unfortunately story's not the kind of thing that belongs to Bendis.

jmanchester0's review

2.0

So, I think I figured it out!

Secret Wars is a secret conspiracy by Marvel Comics to get people to stop reading comics! Why? I have no clue.

But I just read a Guardians of the Galaxy comic by Bendis and was non-plussed.

How do we have comics by Bendis, DeConnick, and (Kelly) Thompson (cf, The Carol Corps) that aren‰ЫЄt amazing??

Ok. To confirm this, I‰ЫЄm going to read 1602: Witch Hunter Angela and Deadpool‰ЫЄs Secret Secret Wars. Those are by Marguerite Bennett and Cullen Bunn, respectively. If those don‰ЫЄt redeem this, then it has to be a Marvel conspiracy.

This comic feels like total filler - like the bigwigs at Marvel said, ‰ЫПHey Bendis, write us 4 issues of a series and give it to us tomorrow. We don‰ЫЄt care if it makes a lot of sense - just put in about 4-5 fights per issue.‰Ыќ

You just come away with thinking - was there really a point to all this? Nothing happens except a bunch of people fighting for really no reason.

(Plus, they dropped another background story comic at the end of this - completely out of place! WTF?? Forget this - it calls for me to get my interrobang on - WTF‰Ы_‰Ы_)

grilledcheesesamurai's review

2.0

2.5 stars if I could.

Another Secret Wars tie-in. Another failure.

This was basically a revolving door of characters that popped in and out of the pages fighting one another.

I suppose there is a bit of a 'reveal' at the end of this issue that sets things up for...I dunno what for actually.

The artwork was zippy. I guess there is that. Also, some new dude villian is introduced named YOTAT that's supposed to be really badass - but really we don't know anything about him. Only he was hard to beat down.

Whatever.

Another useless limited run in the useless Secret Wars that marvel claims is going to 'change everything.'

All I know is, for the most part, whenever I finish one of these Battle World spin-offs I'm just left with a sour taste in my mouth and a giant ball of bitterness in my gut towards Marvel.

I can picture all the studio people at Marvel sitting there laughing at us as they light their crack pipes with big fat stacks of readers cash.

anthroxagorus's review

4.0

On the cover, it's exciting to see two women, however Gamora's in her sluttish costume (rather than the more conservative one of the film) and it's kind of a downer. Why so much bare skin? How do her boobs not pop out? Okay, anyways, this issue is all about the art, very little action because it's the guardians set-up into the Secret Wars plot. (Well, technically action in a pretty neat fight scene but not much in way of plot). Rocket does some wise-cracks, of course, so that's mildly amusing. I'm not blown away, but it's only one issue.

slayra's review

4.0

Knowhere is a satellite that consists of remains of an alien they tried to attack Battleworld. Gamora is being questioned by the Thors because she keeps moving to other dominions and that is forbidden by Doom. But she is searching for bigger answers to questions that put their whole world in check.

squidbag's review

2.0

This is prettier and better written than either of the other two ones of these I read this weekend, but it's depressingly bleak, again with all the shock deaths and giant villain that gets set up to get knocked down, all told only to lead our way into the final issues of the main storyline. Fans of GotG will only enjoy the final issue of this - the rest is a pointless slugfest punctuated by speechifying.