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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

When the book was relaunched the movie hadn't yet come out and nobody thought it would be a hit. Iron Man had become one of Marvel's A-listers so I'm guessing he was added to the team to help boost sales for a team that hadn't been all that popular in the past.

If you'd told people just a few years ago the Guardians would go from being in comic book limbo after a cancelled series to having a mega-hit movie and multiple books they would've laughed in your face.

True the movie wasn't out yet but it had been announced, and it is apparent as when the volume starts they all have this Mass Effect armor thing going on but later they switch to movie outfits just in time to capitalize. From a marketing standpoint I understood tossing Tony into the mix but it just didn't work out very well. I'm aware the GotG were not popular before the movie because I was one of the few that read those comics but the obscurity of the cast is what made the book work. They were a bunch of schmucks hopelessly trying to hold reality together. I'll say this again even though I've said it in past posts: the GotG movie was great but it made some major changes which the comics unfortunately adopted thus lessening the characters (specifically Star-Lord).