Gunn is a lot like Tom King in that he writes wildly off-beat takes on characters (i.e.: taking a wikipedia summary of the comics and filling them with sex, vulgarity, and all but pointing at the screen and calling them, their motives, and designs completely stupid) and generally gets away with it because the characters he bastardizes aren't A-Listers. Even if the comics he's taking from are completely at odds with his way of reinterpreting them (pic related).
The difference is that Guns writing is not a confessional to being a glowie faggot that feels bad for torturing sand niggers but simultaneously resents those same sand niggers for not letting him save them.