Finished reading Guardians of Knowhere, this brings together the Guardians of the Galaxy that have not appeared in the pages of the main Secret Wars book as they deal with life on Knowhere which also acts as the moon for Battleworld. The book opens up with Angela, the designated Thor of Knowhere, getting into a fight with Drax as she's trying to find Gamora who has traveled to Battleworld which breaks one of the laws of Knowhere as she doesn't believe in Doom and thinks it's a pile of lies. When Gamora and Rocket break up the fight Drax joins them as the Guardians get to the other side of Knowhere to meet with Mantis. The Guardians then find themselves face to face with new villain Yotat who plans to become the new destroyer by defeating Drax and the rest of the Guardians. There is an additional story featuring the Illuminati of the main Marvel universe dealing with the reappearance of the Beyonder since the original Secret Wars which worries the team and leads them to meet with the Beyonder again. Overall this was a decent book as its more style over substance with the book being very action heavy which makes this feel like a shorter book than what it is. The backstory of Yotat is great as it helps to show what motivates the character. Artist Mike Deodato draws some eyepopingly great fight scenes that help to show the sheer power behind each character's hits. Additionally the amount of detail that goes into the location works perfectly and gives a fitting alien feel. While the Illuminati story feels like it was added onto the end of the book just for the fact that it ties into the original Secret Wars and is also written by Brian Michael Bendis. 6/10.
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