Abnett and Lanning....

Someday in the not too distant future there may be a movie called Guardians of the Galaxy movie....

This band of heroes have been around since the very late 60's in the marvel universe in it's 30th century future timeline. In their initial stories they fought against the reptilian Badoon and boasted a collection of extra terrestrial and altered human heroes; Charlie 27, Major Vance Astro, Yondu, Martinex and the girl Nikki. I recall reading their stories in reprints black and white somewhere... I fondly recall them as some crazy future heroes around Vance who was a modified astronaut who traveled slower then light to be received be human descendants in a very post trans humanity galaxy. Abnett and Lanning have great future superhero cred having written for 2000AD and Legion of Superheroes in the past, they have a grasp on creating fantastic landscapes and populating it with weird and believable characters.

The most recent Marvel incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy created by this team of writers is set after two universal catastrophes under the annihilation banner title where one character proposes a proactive team to stop future events. These stories tie into the Marvel universe franchise and the mysterious character Thanos that appears in the Avengers credit.

Today Marvel had the issues of this recent series on sale for 99cents for all 18 issues. I missed all these having no disposable income and the few I've read are great issues and well cheaper then they were at the time... Anyone a fan of superheroes and scifi should grab these up... They are a piece of good storytelling and recent modern history.....

The team of heroes assumed to be in production for the movie is the Abnett and Lanning version following Starlord, Drax, Gammora, Rocket Raccon Quazar and Groot. Now that us based on development sketches.

Starlord is a hero I remember well from the Marvel black and white magazines from the late 70s as a mix of Conan and solo Space Ghost crusading hero figure. He had a ship that was iconic, lost to the modern character and a perchance for saving damsels.

Drax and Gammora are human hybrids that come out if the Thanos and Warlock stories of the seventies and both of hen are in ghat very grey assassin area of the potential stories. I know little of Rocket Racoon and Groot or the modern Quasar characters but I know they would fit well in a Farscape/space based setting and well Rocket is actually an intelligent talking Racoon much like Bandit from Nocturnals.

I love the plotting, concepts and execution of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and any of their comics are a bargain at today's prices....

Excelsior....