Marvel has released some new Guardians of the Galaxy Empire covers featuring new looks at the film’s villains played by Lee Pace, Karen Gillan and Djimon Hounsou.

Marvel is ramping up its promotion for Guardians of the Galaxy as it heads closer to its world premiere on August 1. Today Empire magazine has released two new covers featuring the characters from the film and while we’ve seen the main crew a lot, it’s nice to see the villains getting some love.

Check out Karen Gillan as the deadly Nebula, Lee Pace as Ronan The Accuser and Djimon Housou as Korath The Pursuer:

Check out Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Batista as Drax The Destroyer, Vin Diesel as Groot and Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon:

Guardians of the Galaxy’s recent trailer gave us some great looks at Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana, and more importantly, showed us quite a bit more of Bradley Cooper voicing Rocket Raccoon. It looks as though he’ll be quite talkative in the film.

Guardians of the Galaxy’s release date is set for August 1, 2014. Featuring an intergalactic group of Guardians, led by Star-Lord, they make a desperate stand to save the galaxy.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper voices the machine-gun-wielding Rocket Raccoon and is joined by Vin Diesel as the tree-like Groot, with Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan and Dave Bautista filling out the leading roles.