I’m back to continue my countdown to the release of Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 in just 8 days! Today, I have a guide to the character who assembled the modern Guardians of the Galaxy and became their defacto leader, even if his increased goofiness by-way-of the Marvel Cinematic Universe made him a less-convincing commander than he began in Annihilation. Follow Peter Quill through his every Marvel Comics appearance (across two different incarnations) in my Star-Lord Guide!
Want to learn more about the disparity between Star-Lord’s on-screen depiction and his Marvel Comics history, or how he was stealthily rebooted from a prior character without anyone realizing it in the early 10s? Check out my original launch essay from when I debuted the Star-Lord Guide to Patrons of CK.
If you want to read the very best of Star-Lord, you mostly want to read tons of Guardians of the Galaxy comics, which not only feature him as the leader but also the central driver of plot. However, his brief 2016 Chip Zdarsky & Kris Anka solo series helped to balance the sexy, silly aspects of his MCU version with his existence in Marvel-616, and Al Ewings most-recent run on Guardians of the Galaxy (2016) included a surprising amount of character work that unlocked new aspects of Peter’s personality linked to his now-obscure alternate-universe beginnings.
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