REVIEW: Guardians of the Galaxy, #18

[Haquim]

Ooook. The story isn't over yet so I feel we can't really comment on the situation as a whole, and I'll just point out some of the things that happened to bother me (besides the mandatory "BENDIS!!!" I scream every time I read him these days):

CONS

-Gamora and Starlord: why on all that sacred did she have to resort to bondage besides the obvious cheap motive (i.e. appealing to some reader's kinky side)? Seems just the usual Bendis mischaracterization. Are we supposed to believe starlord would not have answered Gamora if she just asked seriously enough?
-Thanos: during Imperative Thanos was at insane levels of power and barely rational. Now we are supposed to believe he got smaked around by Starlord and Nova quite easyly mere minutes after the incident with the fault. Granted Peter had a CC in his hands (more than enough to deal even with Thanos) but could not use it properly at all. Besides even Richard Rider seemed to be able to hurt Thanos... the same Richard Rider who could not do anything against Silver Surfer in DnA Nova's
-Cancerverse: no one can die in the cancerverse, there's no death there. So why is Thanos threatening Nova and Starlord with death? Granted Drax mentions that "no one can die here" but then immediately proceeds to try to kill Thanos... Seems a little irrational (being Drax around Thanos, could be) but I have this nagging suspect it's just BENDIS! doing whaterver he thinks he needs to tell a story and reinventing the rules.

PROS

-Mc Guinness art. Gorgeous as usual
-Well done bringing back Drax with the same costume and form he had when Thanos killed him last time, I would have expected him to be in his "new slimmer form", instead that's how he was when he apparently died.

EDIT: Somewhere Jim Starling is crying tears of blood reading this... :P