Star-Lord: Grounded Review

Finished reading Star-Lord: Grounded, dealing with the fall out of Marvel's Civil War II Peter Quill finds himself stranded on his home planet of Earth as writer Chip Zdarsky tells the story of Star-Lord being a fish out of water on his own homeworld. The book opens with Peter living in an apartment that Alpha Flight as arrange for him when Abigail Brand shows up giving Peter a phone and telling him to do something with his time on Earth. When Peter leaves the apartment to go to an art gallery he bumps into his ex Kitty Pryde who is leading a school trip to the gallery where the two have a dispute before Old Man Logan steps in. Later that day Logan meets with Peter as they go to a local bar where they soon find themselves in a bar fight with soon gets the attention of the police who arrest Peter. Peter soon finds himself in court where the judge makes him go and do community service where he meets with Edmund Allen, a resident of a retirement home who even helps Peter get a job as a bartender while he's on Earth which sends Peter into the middle of New York's criminal underworld which is only the least of his problems. The second story within the book sees Peter waking up in a old west town after crashing his ship where he decides to help the sheriff of the town with a problem the town is having with a local outlaw. Overall this was an amazing book as brings more of a focus on Peter Quill as a person rather than a hero that allows writer Chip Zdarsky to give Peter and his supporting cast an amazing amount of character development that is helped by an incredibly strong story and character interactions that help to make to story feel very realistic and down to Earth as Peter is dealing more with Earth related problems rather that he faces with the Guardians while in space. The book also does a great job in not only making characters like Daredevil and Logan important to the story but writer Chip Zdarsky also gives the characters their own story arc that doesn't take any time away from Peter but helps with his own character development. The art throughout the book is amazing as artist Kris Anka is able to bring Peters time on Earth to life incredibly well thanks to brilliant emphasis on each characters emotions through their facial expressions that help to make the more character driven moments even more impactful. While Djibril Morissette's art helps to bring the western setting of the books final story to life amazingly in part to the way it even feels like a western film thanks different themes at play within the story and the similarities it has with the genre. 9.5/10.