Next month sees Donny Cates’ Guardians of the Galaxy debut from Marvel Comics with the good news being it will be more like the 2008 Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning version and less like the Brian Bendis and James Gunn goofy rendition that ruined the characters.
As readers of this site know, Cosmic Book News was started as a result of Annihilation, Nova, Quasar and Abnett and Lanning’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel Cosmic; however when James Gunn came on board the movies, the comics and characters went to sh-t and have been ever since.
Now with Cates writing a new Guardians of the Galaxy, he says it won’t be like the Bendis or goofy Gunn version, but more hardcore and serious like Abnett’s Guardians.
“Nah, I’m not concerned with those films. They’re chasing me. Other way around,” Cates responded to questioning if his Guardians will be like the MCU movies while at a panel at the Memphis Comic Expo (via Blerd Without Fear YouTube Channel).
While Cates’ Guardians book won’t be goofy, it still has Cosmic Ghost Rider.
“I mean Cosmic Ghost Rider is on the team, which is fun,” Cates added.
Donny Cates then gives kudos to the Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Guardians, which he says is more like his book (Marvel Cosmic fans rejoice!).
“Someone once said about the Guardians of the Galaxy films when they first blew up that everyone was surprised that they did so well, but they weren’t, because it’s a film about two Han Solos and three Chewbaccas. Which is what it is, right?” Cates said. “So I have a little bit of that in there, right. But. People tend to forget that a lot of those storylines, and especially the team that makes up the film team, is based on that Abnett and Lanning stuff. The film has its own tone, which is like very fun and light and everything, but the Abnett and Lanning stuff is hardcore. I mean, there is some wild stuff that goes down those ranks. It’s not been a kind of jokey cartoony book until the films came out.”
Guardians of the Galaxy #2
Guardians of the Galaxy #2 lands in February. Check out the solicit and covers:
Thanos is dead… Long live the NEW Thanos! But who will it be?! Will the new Guardians of the Galaxy find that person in time before the universe comes crashing down?
