Groot gets animated series on Disney+ this August

Poster: Marvel Studios

Groot is getting his own animated series on Disney+ with the aptly named I Am Groot. The animated shorts will hit the streaming service on August 10, with Baby Groot played by Vin Diesel. Marvel Studios teased the series in a tweet with an official poster of the cute anthropomorphic sapling chilling on a blanket and leaning against Peter Quill/Starlord's iconic Walkman while he's listening to music on headphones with what we assume is a mocktail complete with a tiny umbrella. He's lying beside a palm tree-shaped air freshener, reminding us how small he is, with two four-eyed, penguin-like creatures peeking out.

We don't know much else about this animated short series, but Marvel vaguely describes it as "following Baby Groot's glory days growing up, and getting into trouble among the stars." It's also unclear if the other Guardians will show up. For now, we can only speculate from the poster what will happen. The Verge pointed out that this series will be the first original Guardians of the Galaxy spinoff, but it isn't the last. A live-action Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special will be streaming exclusively on Disney+ in December.

Doritos partners with Marvel for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 promotion, puts a cassette tape player in its packaging

Building on Peter Quill’s love for music, there will be special edition Doritos nacho cheese bags coming out. The bag of chips will have a cassette player (or at least a music player that looks like one) and will play songs from the Awesome Mix Vol. 2, which is the soundtrack for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It contains songs from the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Sam Cooke, David Hasselhoff, and George Harrison.

Why do such a thing? A Frito-Lay executive told Billboard, “Can you imagine a better way to listen to this soundtrack than with a bag of Doritos? We couldn’t either.” While we’re not so sure about that, it might be a gimmick some of you can get behind. No word yet on how much it’ll cost but it’ll show up on Doritos’ Amazon page on April 28^th.

Drax the Destroyer finally gets his own comic

One more Guardians of the Galaxy character is finally getting his own comic. This time Drax the Destroyer will be getting the spotlight. This will be the first standalone comic for Drax since he was introduced in 1973. It’ll follow his personal battles across the galaxy in his attempt to prove he’s the greatest fighter out there.

The series will also be the debut for writer/former wrestler/upcoming UFC fighter CM Punk. He’s written one-off comics before such as Thor Annual #1 and Vertigo’s Stranger Sports Stories but this will be the first time he’ll be taking on an ongoing comic book series. No other details have been revealed yet except for the cover done by Ed McGuinness. Drax #1 will be out this winter.

Source: io9

Groot from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to star in his own Marvel comic

If you don’t know who Groot is at this point, we’d think you are living under a rock at the bottom of a cliff. The lovable yet dangerous walking and talking tree from the Guardians of the Galaxy will be getting his own comic book series from Marvel. Issue one for Groot’s story seems to already be in the can but there is no word yet when they will release it.

The story will apparently focus on Groot’s backstory and how he met and teamed up with Rocket Raccoon. Comedy TV writer Jeff Loveness will write the story and art will be done by Brian Kesinger. Are you excited for a Groot comic? Will you read it?

Source: SlashGear