Al Ewing ’s current run onGuardians of the Galaxyhas been less of a judgement bend outer space opera house and more of an activeness - packed exploration of what it means to be a family hand-to-hand struggle with the profound sorrow tied to the sudden red ink of one of their own . The account book ’s core team ( plural ) of Guardians have all been trying to figure out how to move forward and heal , and for at least two people said healing affect receive romanticistic — or at least forcible — solace in one another ’s arms .
This week ’s Guardians of the Galaxy # 6 from Ewing , artist Marcio Takara , and colorist Federico Blee score this abundantly clear , with an worked up retread of sort from Nova Prime / Richard Rider who , feel the weight of his ever - compile excited luggage , sits down for a Shi’ar - patronize academic session with a healer . Though Richard , like all surviving members of the Annihilation War , has first hand experience with the devastating impact that large scale conflict can have on a person ’s sense of ego , lose Peter Quill during a rather workaday Guardians charge involving the Olympians ’ homeworld ghost him because Quill was truly like a brother to him .
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Gamora and Hercules mixing it up with some space toughs.Image: Marcio Takara, Federico Blee/Marvel
foresightful news report unforesightful : as more and more of the universe ’s Olympians set about to renew and set out to appropriate other public , Richard took it upon himself to journey to New Olympus intend to order the converted gods to cut their shit out , lest they be arrested and taken in for violating public security treaty . Reasoning that he might involve a bit of backup , Richard postulate the mostly - pull back members of the Guardians to tag along , and while Gamora passed up on the offer , Quill was all too biz to get in on the action .
Together with Phyla - Vell ( the Captain Marvel of another property ) , the Titan - trained telepath Moondragon , Rocket Raccoon , and Quill , Nova was successfully able to penetrate New Olympus with every intent of destroying one of the Olympians ’ more of import ships . While skulking around on the planet , now seemingly chock full of Olympians ’ who entirely wanted to ruin things , this looping of the Guardians bechance upon and team up with the latest Hercules — someone who , unlike the rest of his pantheon , still hold onto some sense of decorum and need for order . And , dickish as Marvel Boy ’s tended to be towards his fellow Guardians ( and basically everyone else he chance ) , he ’s quite polite towards Hercules , something that Moondragon — being both a telepath and a queer person with coarse good sense — forthwith clocks as being rather out of the average .
But as the Guardians win an ally in Hercules , they fall behind another : Quill end up being appropriate by the Olympians and force to think on his foot for ensure that the crazy gods are n’t able to bear out their architectural plan of conquest . After managing to bolt down Hephaestus , god of the smithy , Quill cause that the only room to ensure that the Olympians do n’t become a Galax urceolata - broad thereat is to demolish New Olympus as a whole , something that he can do with an ever - so - convenient bomb calorimeter that , when detonated , takes him along in the detonation .
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Much to the dismay of the rest of the Guardians , who Quill sends aside remotely in his ship using controls in his helmet , he ’s able to stop the Olympians at the cost of his own life sentence — successfully competing a mission that he never actually went look for himself . In the wake of Quill ’s demise , Gamora , Moondragon , Groot , and Drax break out from Rocket and the others out of a ( in - part correct ) belief that they ’re partially censurable for what chance . Though Gamora and her crew still consider themselves Guardians of the Galaxy , in verity they ’d become mercenaries carry out jobs for pay because they might as well make a buck while sour through their lamentation .
Tense as thing have been between these two groups of Guardians , fate inevitably leads them back into one another ’s orbits when they begin vying for the same gigs — lead to fighting that is n’t just about money . Because Gamora was in conclusion at a place in her life with Quill where she felt as if she might be able to enjoy a modicum of peace and felicity , she ca n’t help but see Nova Prime as having ruined it all , and she want him beyond dead for it . Being loyal to their respective leaders , everyone else on both teams instantly spring into battle against each other , grant Richard ’s remembrance in issue # 6 . And while Marvel Boy and Hercules both fritter away and smash to kill , the pair also find a midget bit of fourth dimension to own up to the fact that they ’ve always been sort of into one another .
Marvel Boy ’s queerness was in the beginning established way back in Young Avengers , when he was still dating archer Kate Bishop , and we ’ve seen at least one alternative universe version of Hercules who was in a committed relationship with that world ’s Wolverine . So the pairing is n’t the most surprising thing in the macrocosm . Moreover , Guardians is one of Marvel ’s few claim that consistently and prominently boast queer characters like Phyla - Vell and Moondragon , who ’ve continued to be partners throughout this serial publication .
Moondragon telepathically bonding with Phyla-Vell as Marvel Boy and Hercules try to act casual in front of one another.Image: Juann Cabal, Federico Blee/Marvel
It ’s far from a fully grown softwood to Richard or any of the other Guardians that a super - unassailable god man and a douchebag flyboy from another dimension with cockroach DNA are now ostensibly shack up on a space ship . And really , why should it be ? Especially when , as all of this drama ’s been going on , elsewhere in the galaxy there ’s a pair ofnewly - minted space husbandswho have literallyset off a war that could terminate public ?
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Richard Rider recalling how Marvel Boy and Hercules finally hooked up after spending all this time flirting.Image: Marcio Takara, Federico Blee/Marvel
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