This issue is a little...speech-y. Blah blah blah Peter lecturing his father blah blah blah. But, if you can get past that, it's still fun.
Bendis manages to liberate the Guardians in ways that feel organic, with maybe a little help from their captors' general incompetence. I didn't see Angela and Carol rescuing Gamora and Peter (respectively) coming. But, Bendis makes it work, informing us that the Badoon and Spartax were televising their punishments, alerting Angela and Carol to their plight. I also bought that the Supreme Intelligence saw the writing on the wall once Peter escaped and freed Rocket before the Guardians appeared on his doorstep. Similarly, it's not hard to believe that the Skrulls were so overconfident that they thought they could release and control the symbiote without it returning to Flash. I'm assuming that the gang is going to get together again in time to save Drax, though it's not like I necessarily think that Gladiator is sure to win their fight to the death.
However much fun this issue was, I'll admit that I'm starting to wonder where we're going exactly. Peter gives his moving speech about the Guardians being the people to save the citizens of the galaxy that J'Son manipulates, but we actually haven't really seen the Guardians save all that many people. They basically saved Jean Grey. I feel like this series is in some serious need of an "Annihilation" type of story, spanning a number of issues, to deliver on the promise of the Guardians as, well, guardians. In other words, Bendis has to give them someone to actually guard. Peter can only drink and hit on girls in so many space bars before he has to do something.
*** (three of five stars)
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