Marvel recently launched this as a comic book title, and it's a no-brainer really. The first issue involved the Avengers roughly equating the line-up seen in the films teaming up with the Guardians Of The Galaxy, since they're now premium real estate on the big screen and on paper. The set up of this new series is that each issue and/or arc will see the super team joining forces with some other character or group from the Marvel universe. Since the film studio are still playing coy about the prospect of the movie Avengers and Guardians ever crossing paths (it seems obvious it'll happen in Infinity War, the split-in-half Avengers threequel, but they're remaining firm in their conviction that they want to keep the cosmic and Earth-bound separate), doing an Guardians team-up cartoon could be a good way of giving fans what they want. And the obvious benefit for all of these animated series is that they can do the sorts of big action sequences without paying for vast amounts of expensive special effects, or shelling out the big bucks for all the big-name movie stars appearing. Every week, the Guardians team up with everyone from Avengers to Ant-Man to some C-list comic character who'd never get a look-in in live-action form!
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
