In April of 2010, Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy both ended (temporarily dropping the number of ongoing series I was buying from Marvel to 1). The next month, the last hurrah of the late-2000s, Abnett and Lanning-written Cosmic Marvel run kicked off with this one-shot, which picks up where the two ongoings concluded.
War of Kings ended with the formation of The Fault, a giant rip in the fabric of the universe. It was discovered that on the other side was a universe much like the 616, except there was no death. A universe entirely overtaken by life, filled to the bursting by the Many-Angled Ones. A Cancerverse, looking to spread.
Nova pursues the Cancerverse version of Quasar back to the Fault, and finds millions of Universal Church of Truth worshipers waiting to use their lives as a beacon. Curious how the end of millions of lives attracts more life, like diffusion, flowing from high concentration to low. But the interlocked nature of death and life was a recurring thing throughout Abnett and Lanning's Guardians of the Galaxy run.
The Guardians of the Galaxy deal with the fact Thanos is alive again, and really pissed about it. Drax isn't happy either, having gone to a lot of trouble killing Thanos in the first place. Neither is Moondragon, since Thanos' first act was murdering her girlfriend. And the damaged Cosmic Cube Star-Lord used to deck Thanos the first time is out of juice.
(Keep that last point in mind, it'll be relevant next week.)
Boiled down, though, the one-shot is all about the last page reveal of the high priest, so to speak, of the Many-Angled Ones. Good old sainted-ass Captain Mar-Vell, apparently strong enough now to burn Adam Magus to ash with zero effort. (I quite enjoyed seeing a version of Adam Warlock get incinerated. Points to Abnett and Lanning for giving me that at long last) This sets up Thanos versus Mar-Vell, for the fate of the universe, again. But this time, with Thanos in the position of having to defend it from life run amok.
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