Given the amount of buildup that lead up to Guardians of the Galaxy #20, to say that Richard Rider’s final moments come off as lacking is somewhat of an understatement. It’s not the end itself, as Nova’s heroic sacrifice does have some impact, but rather in the roundabout way in which we got there. Writer Bendis spends so much time getting to this moment that when it finally arrives it feels like almost an afterthought, only having any real bearing in what said revelation does to Gamora and the team as a whole.
It’s a disappointing end, and one that isn’t easily remedied by the book’s artistic team. Ed McGuinness and Valerio Schiti turn in some solid pages, but their styles are so vastly different that the switch between them is quite noticeable. It also doesn’t help that the book has three different inkers, resulting in three distinctly different degrees of hatching and shadow. Honestly, issue #20 feels like a book the creators were forced to make, a cobbled together attempt to tie-up a long unsolved end. It’s serviceable enough as a whole, but Richard Rider, and his fans, deserved better.
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