Gamora #1 Review

Writer: Nicole Perlman / Artist: Marco Checchetto / Marvel Comics In advance of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Marvel launches two new comics featuring the series’ main stars – Star-Lord #1 following the solo adventures of Peter Quill, and the pre-Guardians origin of fan-favorite Gamora. Forget much of what you know from the movie though, as Gamora is set to build the character from her life before joining Star-Lord, Rocket Racoon, and Groot, back to when she was the adopted daughter of Thanos, a slave, a hated sibling, and a ruthless assassin. This isn’t your Guardians of the Galaxy Gamora, at least not in tone, but instead a grim entry point to her dark, lonely life. Much of her time is spent fetal-positioned on the floor, and you can’t blame her; it took Izzie Stevens like 3 episodes to get off the floor when Denny died, Gamora’s whole family was slaughtered and she’s the sole survivor of her entire race and slave-daughter to a galactic supervillain.

So Gamora’s understandably living in deep depression, her voice cold and detached, which in isolation would give the wrong impression of this comic. How she deals with it, however, is what makes Gamora #1 the start of a badass series of action, relationships, psychological abuse, and revenge, as Gamora’s only solace comes from murdering everyone responsible for killing her people. And her definition of “everyone responsible” is of the Biblical variety – she will kill their entire tree, every descendant, every root and branch…