Guardians Of The Galaxy #9

Most of the chars on the cover are prisoners on the Cathedral ship and don't appear within, not even as recognisable occupants of tubes in the background.

Back in #2 when Donny Cates started to bring Gamora into the story I wondered if he had forgotten that Infinity Wars #6 ended with her lost on an unidentified world intending to raise the newly reborn Magus to be a better person than his evil previous versions.

In the Annual I took the hint that Magus was the messiah the Universal Church Of Truth were trying to resurrect (they have form in this respect), again seemingly ignoring IW#6.

Oh, me of little faith! This issue knits Gamora's story back together, and the appearance of Li'l Magus throws severe doubt about the about the occupant of the cocoon. And we didn't think it was going to be Warlock who the Annual showed was alive and well elsewhere. And Star-Lord was obviously expecting Magus to step out of the cocoon, and was as gob-smacked as me when it turned out to be Drax.

Do the multiple cocoons mean that the UCT intends to send an army of Drax's against Death?

Drax and his human part Arthur Douglas were split apart in IW#6. The IW: Fallen Guardian 1-shot showed Art reunited with his wife in Soul World, and Drax off somewhere doing what he likes best - fighting. I'm now confidant Donny will explain how Drax got from there to here in the following issues.