Can we just take a second to appreciate how James Gunn and the other vol.3 writers managed to weave together the origins of rocket perfectly with that of the High Evolutionary?

In the comics they were completely unrelated to each-other. But if I handent read the og Rocket comic miniseries, I would’ve 100% Rocket and HE’s origins were connected from the start with how naturally they fit together in vol.3.

Like??? Marvel?? You’re telling me, for nearly half a century, you had an evil/morally grey space mad scientist who’s entire shtick is genetically modifying animals into human like anthro versions of themselves, and another, completely separate, unrelated character who’s shtick is he’s a genetically modified anthro raccoon from space??? And yet nobody, NOBODY, not a single person, let alone writer, at your office thought; “hey! Why don’t we just retcon rocket’s origin so that the high evolutionary created halfworld and the genetically modified animals there!”??? It took the freaking Slithers guy of all people in the year of our Lord 2023 to connect those dots????