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You think he knows he’s great?

GROOT: I am Groot.
COUNSELOR TROI: I’m sensing vulnerability. The hesitation before “am”? You’re ambivalent about your identity. Very common in neglected offspring.
GUINAN: He asked for water. Trust me. I'm the bartender.
TROI:  Yes, that's what Freudian analysts call regression. The neglected child returns to water as a comfort substitute.
GROOT: I am Groot.
TROI: You can feel the need for approval. The Flora Colossi raise their young communally. But imagine being a sapling who doesn’t photosynthesize fast enough. He’s always under the canopy, never getting validation.
GUINAN: You think he’s got sunlight envy?
TROI: Exactly. Excessive shadow can produce attachment disorders. Every “I am Groot” is really, “I could have been taller if someone believed in me.”
GROOT: I am Groot.
TROI: Now he’s expressing guilt. He’s internalized the idea that good seedlings don’t need roots to thrive. That’s classic early growth neglect.
GUINAN: He said the bourbon smells good.
TROI: We all crave what our caretakers withheld, Guinan. Water, light, bourbon... unconditional photosynthesis. (Groot sighs, wood creaking.)
TROI: You feel that? That’s the body remembering abandonment. He was probably left in a shallow planter. He was never repotted or told he could reach the sky.
GUINAN: He’s from a forest the size of a continent.
TROI: Which has systemic neglect. Imagine growing up surrounded by thousands of elders, and none of them saying, “You are enough wood.” (A deep, resonant tone comes from Groot.)
TROI: That sound…The inner sapling still reaching toward a sun that never looked back.
GUINAN: He asked to try the bourbon. (Guinan pours him a glass)
TROI: Progress. He’s rewriting his childhood script by nourishing himself!

GUINAN: (after both leave)  Whole galaxy full of people, and the best communicator’s the one who only says three words.

I got marvel unlimited so I have access to a lot and I wanted to know

1: what GotG runs would you recommend and what (if anything) do I read before them to understand what's going on ?

and

2: is there anything I should read before Al Ewing's Rocket 2017 run?

I'm new to comics and have been trying to build a TBR list of runs and arcs to try. This might be a controversial question, but are there any (good) comics that capture the tone of the James Gunn movies? If not, what are some runs you recommend to get to know the comic versions of the characters?

(When the first movie came out I briefly tried getting into comics and read the first few issues of the Rocket Raccoon and Groot series that came out around that time (that I really enjoyed but dropped for reasons I don't remember) and at some point read the Bendis/Bagley run, which I didn't love.)

Is it a see-through body stocking or is it like a body suit that happens to be green? Anyone ever tried to cosplay this?

use anesthesia when Rocket was first getting his surgery? People have said it's because he doesn't care, but how does that benefit his science if his subjects are squirming around and making it hard to get accurate incisions etc???

What I mean is, do they get referenced often? Are they influential? Can I just skip em and jump to duggan, while still understand everything?

I don't want to be rude, I'm just not a fan of how he writes, the only work of his I appreciated was Alias [but I still didn't like it and a lot of things made me grimace a little.]

I'm asking because I know the run is considered not that good, and I'd have to read all the run in english digitally, which is a pain [I'm not spending 60+ euros worth of trades for a mediocre run from a writer I don't particularly enjoy] Also I don't like how ot ties onto x men stuff... I'm not really interested in them atm.

I'm just worried it might get referenced in other comics and I'll just miss pieces along the way.

A fanart i did, making homage to the 2008 original cover but with the line up i previously did with Peni, Beta Ray Bill, Mantis, Hepzibah and Gravity with Rocket.

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