OLD Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a>?<\/p>\n
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\nA young Matt was at one time enraptured by the exploits of Vance Astro, Starhawk, Charlie-27 (come on, is there a more perfect name in the history of trash sci-fi than Charlie-27? It’s BRILLIANT), and the other Guardians as they had adventures set in some alternate future Marvel Universe. Inevitably, these adventures revolved around some lost, forgotten, or mutated version of a Marvel Universe mainstay…Tony Stark’s technology becomes the basis for a sect of odd robot hybrid creatures, Vance wants to find Captain America’s old shield, etc.<\/p>\n
Written and drawn by Jim Valentino, the ongoing series was vintage late-eighties mid-tier Marvel–a little soap opera, a little smart-ass quippery, a lot of action. I just put it in my pile of “comics to sell so I can pay off my credit cards and emerge from the fog of debt I’ve existed in off and on since my late teens,” cause I thought it’s a likely candidate for an Essential volume in the next couple years…at least this new series makes it likely to get a release based solely on the name tie-in.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s just me, but the idea of weird versions of Marvel heroes battling in a dystopian alternate future sounds way too wacky and fun to go gently into the good night. Yet that looks to be the case.<\/p>\n
Fare thee well, Yondu…you will be missed.<\/p>\n
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Indulge me for a moment, if you will, as I engage in a brief bit of classic bitchy fanboy complaining. Marvel has announced that one of the ongoing titles spinning off their latest Annihilation extravaganza will be a new Guardians of the Galaxy series. That’s fine, I guess…but hey, what about the OLD Guardians of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitching","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}