{"id":167,"date":"2015-05-19T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-05-19T03:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T03:25:48","slug":"legendary-star-lord-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Star-Lord 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointedly <em>not<\/em> featuring the title character! Instead we get a strange little Black Vortex epilogue focusing on Star-Lord\u2019s half-sister Victoria \u2013 who I admit had completely slipped my mind amidst all the Kitty Pryde nonsense \u2013 as she confronts the Collector, you know, from that movie that time? I will say that he\u2019s well-characterized for an Elder of the Universe, avoiding the usual ponderous dialogue usually associated with cosmic immortal types. He\u2019s fun, inviting Victoria to join him for a friendly drink as they discuss the return of Victoria\u2019s father J\u2019Son, former emperor of Spartax and current amber-encased bauble in the Collector\u2019s collection. He then takes Victoria on a tour of his collection, not the items of monetary value, but those of I\u2019mnotevenkidding <em>emotional<\/em> value. My favorite part was the Collector taking a moment to ponder stillnotjokingyouguys the boots worn by young Thanos himself: \u201cFrom when he was an innocent <em>child<\/em>. \u00a0Perhaps\u2026 <em>before<\/em> he was evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when the Collector laughingly refuses to let Victoria take her father to be tried for his war crimes, how does she convince him otherwise? \u00a0Any guesses? \u00a0Any\u2026?\u00a0\u00a0Did I hear someone in back say \u201cMesmerize him with <em>the power of dance?<\/em>\u201d \u00a0No? \u00a0No one said that? \u00a0Because that would be\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/srSkEpl.png\" target=\"_blank\">CUCKOO<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/buXRxCU.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">BANANAS<\/a>???<\/em>\u00a0 (Haha, did I forget to mention the flashback from earlier in this issue when J\u2019Son summoned\u00a0poor little tween Victoria to tell her that she was his illegitimate daughter and he was shipping her off to space-military-academy and oh by the way <em>no more dance lessons<\/em> and when she protested he basically said she was lucky he wasn\u2019t listening to his advisors and just having her executed instead?) \u00a0So moved, the Collector tearfully tells her to just take her father and go already (but not before <em><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RDciNCI.png\" target=\"_blank\">collecting his own tears in a vial<\/a><\/em> [<em>???!!!???<\/em>]). \u00a0Afterwards, Victoria reveals that her distraction allowed her stealthy subordinate to successfully swipe the seed of the Kree Supreme Intelligence, presumably killed when the Kree homeworld Hala was recently blown up, and apparently this was their true goal all along to help consolidate galactic supremacy. \u00a0<em>This was a pretty weird issue<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointedly not featuring the title character! Instead we get a strange little Black Vortex epilogue focusing on Star-Lord\u2019s half-sister Victoria \u2013 who I admit had completely slipped my mind amidst all the Kitty Pryde nonsense \u2013 as she confronts the Collector, you know, from that movie that time? I will say that he\u2019s well-characterized for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic_round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}