Guardians of the Galaxy (2013 series) #3

This series insists on disabling or removing Iron Man's armour, presumably to emphasise the real stars of the show. But a similar thing is happening in the current space-based run in IM's own title. And come to think of it he was in that state in a large fraction of Matt Fraction's era as well. Gamora is only the *adopted* daughter of Thanos. She's the last of the Zen Whoberi, a race killed by the Badoon (at least in the current reality). The Spartax troops refer to the Guardians as each being the only one of their kind. As far as I know Gamora is the only one to whom that description truly applies. The Brotherhood of Badoon all seemed to be males, so in early Defenders Steve Gerber invented the Sisterhood of Badoon of females who lived on a different planet from the males. They were presented as peace-loving in contrast to the warlike males. However in the Universal Inhumans storyline in Fantastic Four the Badoon were jointly led by a queen. But this may have only been a special subset of the Badoon, the Badoon equivalent of the Inhumans. Be that as it may, the Badoon discussed here are still separated by gender, but now the Sisterhood may be equally warlike. The suggestion here is that the Badoon attacking Earth in the last 2 issues were females. Looking back I see that the Badoon in #2 may indeed have been of the Sisterhood. However the Badoon in #1 claimed to be Brotherhood. Also, last issue I thought J-son and Y-gaaar were in cahoots, and Y-gaaar sent Badoon to Earth on J-son's instructions. This time it seems instead that J-son invited them to the council because he could trust them to be untrustworthy, and go where the council forbade them. But either way the plan can't actually have worked if it was the Sisterhood who turned up, and the male and female Badoon are still at odds. The ex-members of the Guardians that the Spartax recall are Bug the Kaliklakian and Cosmo the talking dog.