Rocket Raccoon may be the best character in comics right now – Groot is certainly the best talking tree and, since there’s not that much competition for the title of best anthropomorphic raccoon, Rocket definitely takes that crown, but I think he’s the best character out there, with or without fur.

But this volume is a disappointment, and one that bears all the marks of a Marvel corportate cash in. The first half at least is connected, with the Guardians disassembled and trying to get back together again, but that story isn’t even completed here. Instead, the second half is a collection of random stories, with no relation to each other, that neither highlight nor complement the original. But even if they did, there would still be no excuse for putting out an incomplete book such as this. Best avoided (or borrowed through a library, which is how we thankfully avoided having to pay to learn how disappointing this was).