REVIEW: Guardians of the Galaxy #24

[CBR News]

Brian Michael Bendis writes the second chapter of "The Black Vortex" for Valerio Schiti to draw in "Guardians of the Galaxy" #24, which features an amped-up Gamora letting loose on the Slaughter Lords.


Full review here.

[Charles J. Baserap]

Hopefully, at the end, they'll FINALLY address what a colossal hypocrite Hank McCoy has been all these years, along with most of the X-Men, about his treatment of Cyclops. You know, considering he killed hundreds while on a secret squad of Avengers in Warren Ellis' first issue, was complicit in genocide during Ghost Boxes, was willing to deal with Sinister and Doom and Sugar Man and Dark Beast among others to find a fix to the missing x-gene, supports other mutants like Wolverine who gets mind controlled every second Tuesday and kills and killed people by the truckload, and now uses the Black Vortex--not because it was forced into him after a mistake caused by Tony Stark, but because he WANTED it.

[Teste]

Meh. Typical Bendis comic - a lot of talking heads sharing the exact same voice, discussing about nothing. We know the Beast will revert to normal after seeing him in 8 Months Later; if he will go back, everyone will likely be reversed as well. The main conflict, then - talking about what happens after people use the Black Vortex - becomes moot.

[santino27]

I liked the leadup in Legendary Star Lord but man, this issue was terrible. :/

[ComicBookMan]

Yep, another Bendis pile of crap. He's a master of the filler comic. Lots of pointless chatter and not much gets accomplished. Often, at the end of each comic, he tries to leave the reader with a cliffhanger. I find that is usually of slight interest and the rest of the comic is generic banter.

I read some of his X-Men and he did an amazing job at ignoring their actual character that has been developed and writing them the way he likes. Constant debaters/arguers/lame attempts at wit. Repeat.

Someone tell these 'high profile' writers that quality always trumps quantity. Writer fewer books and put some thought into the ones you do write.

[Rocket Rick]

The sooner they offload Bendis elsewhere the better. He's really effed up the Avengers and X-Men. Any success of the Avengers now is because of Mark Millar and the film.

[Ragdoll]

Yep, another Bendis pile of crap. He's a master of the filler comic. Lots of pointless chatter and not much gets accomplished. Often, at the end of each comic, he tries to leave the reader with a cliffhanger. I find that is usually of slight interest and the rest of the comic is generic banter.

What you call filler is what I consider necessary to any story to make it matter. A story can't be plot plot plot. People need to act like people. If issues like this one frustrate you, you might be better off waiting for trade releases instead of reading singles.

[Joe Acro]

Yep, another Bendis pile of crap. He's a master of the filler comic. Lots of pointless chatter and not much gets accomplished. Often, at the end of each comic, he tries to leave the reader with a cliffhanger. I find that is usually of slight interest and the rest of the comic is generic banter.

I read some of his X-Men and he did an amazing job at ignoring their actual character that has been developed and writing them the way he likes. Constant debaters/arguers/lame attempts at wit. Repeat.

Someone tell these 'high profile' writers that quality always trumps quantity. Writer fewer books and put some thought into the ones you do write.

I really don't see this as a filler. It's a story that read almost exactly like the Supreme Intelligence discussion from Galactic Storm.

[TehMidcap]

Meh. Typical Bendis comic - a lot of talking heads sharing the exact same voice, discussing about nothing.

THIS.

Sure Bendis may have played a vital role to Marvel's revival in the early 2000's, but he sure isn't doing ANYTHING useful these days. I love the characters of Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men and would really like to follow them more closely but I do not and won't because of Bendis' writing. The basic plot lines are not all together unlikable (they're not astonishingly well thought out or deeply layered by any means either, but for the most part at least mediocre) but the way in which they are written is quite unreadable. Clunky, unnecessary dialogue in which there is barely any character or personality just filling page after page. Every character speaks like a teenage girl (see the typically portrayed as somewhat cold and direct character Maria Hill saying something along the lines of "he just got the mic dropped on him like it's 8 mile"). I think the problem of Bendis' writing is that it is trying much too heavily to be cool and particularly to the young teen market (see new Powers #1 where 60% of the dialogue is the word "fuck"). I wrote a huge e-mail to Marvel editors about a month ago about this very subject, I'm still waiting for a response.

Yet Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men titles continue to sell well because of the CHARACTERS and artwork and may be misleading in Marvel's eyes in terms of BENDIS sales (I'm sorry but GoTG is one of the most poorly written comic on the stands right now, and that's such a shame because there's endless possibilities with these characters who have a lot of heart and fun personality).

[Zeitgeist]

Hopefully, at the end, they'll FINALLY address what a colossal hypocrite Hank McCoy has been all these years, along with most of the X-Men, about his treatment of Cyclops.

Nope sorry Cyclops being an asshat is firmly canon

[Venom2099]

I gave up on this book after watching the movie....the movie was great....this comic is not.