Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Vehicle Spotlight: The Milano

I've been waiting to feature this one for almost a year, but I could never find visual proof...until now.

Many people don't know this, but the film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) took a lot of liberties with the property. Although the main cast matches the post-Annihilation version of the team, a good chunk - possibly a majority - of the rest of the movie is original to it, even including some of the main characters' personalities and backstories. One such example is the Milano, Star-Lord's personal Ravager ship.


In the comics, the Guardians used a much different ship. However, beginning in All-New Guardians of the Galaxy, the team was suddenly using the Milano - name and all, despite the fact that the name is pretty dependent on Quill's man-out-of-time-who-grew-up-in-the-80s persona that doesn't really jib with the backstory of the comics version. The ship first appeared in All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #1 (May 2017).


Its origin is given a couple days later in Free Comic Book Day: All-New Guardians of the Galaxy 2017 (May 2017), where we learn the Guardians' ship was impounded by the Nova Corps, and they went to steal it back but decided to take the Milano instead.


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