The Good, The Bland, The Ugly – Defenders #1 (2021)

Writer: Jason Aaron Artists: Javier Rodriguez Artist: Inker Alvaro Lopez Cover Price: $3.99 Variants: 1 Regular Cover (Above) Publisher: Marvel Comics A new threat forces Strange to bring out his tarot cards to choose a new team. Most of these characters have never been on the team but this is explained away because the Defenders

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Dr. Strange has a lot of Hulk cameos and I knew, starting with #42, he was in the pages of the book but I just discovered he’s in the previous issue as well! While recalling the history of the Undying Ones Strange remembers when the Defenders defeating the evil group of demons. There is the

Hulk Doesn’t Care!

  That’s exactly what you want to hear from a teammate. He doesn’t care about the team, he’s just there to break stuff.

Scorpio: A Year’s Worth of Hulk Nick Names – Week 28

There are insanely monstrous Hulk illustrations but this one might take the cake!  The Hulk is looking for Scorpio but man is this shot just bad!  Either way we see the Hulk looking for Scorpio but calls him Red Man! Scorpio is Red Man  

Luke Cage: A Year’s Worth of Hulk Nick Names – Week 23

I do love the obvious nature of Hulk nicknames – but also the bluntness and hilarity of each one!  Here is another fellow Defender who gets a memorable nickname that I can’t believe didn’t stick! Luke Cage is Fuzzy Hair!

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The craziest thing about this pandemic is actually having the time to go through my “to read” pile.  I was pleasantly surprised to read issue #1 of Nighthawk and see out favorite green goliath in the issue! When going through his life story they focused on his time in the Defenders. Nighthawk was combined with

Friday Review – Avengers*Defenders: Tarot #4 (2020)

Writer: Alan Davis Artist: Pencil/Inks Paul Renaud Artist: Colors Stephane Paitream Cover Price: Secondary Market: $4.99 $3.85 – $12.99 Total Covers: 3 Regular Cover Alan Davis Variant Diablo Variant Publisher: Marvel Comics Okay, so the mixed up Avengers and Defenders are having a heck of a time trying to defeat these cartoon adversaries.  Even using

Friday Review! Avengers*Defenders Tarot #3 (2020)

Writer: Alan Davis Artist: Pencil/Inks Paul Renaud Artist: Colors Stephane Paitream Cover Price: Secondary Market: $4.99 $3.85 – $12.99 Variants: 2 Alan Davis Variant Diablo Variant Publisher: Marvel Comics When we last left this adventure I had reservations as the cover preview showed pretty cartoony characters busting out of the cover  The same image as

Friday Review: Avengers * Defenders: Tarot #2 (2020)

Writer: Alan Davis Artist: Pencil/Inks Paul Renaud Artist: Colors Paul Mounts Cover Price: Secondary Market: $4.99 $3.85 – $12.99 Variants: 2 Alan Davis Variant Diablo Variant Publisher: Marvel Comics This mini-series last left off on a huge cliffhanger where Diablo has mind control over the Avengers.  He has each of the powerful heroes taking on

Friday Review! Avengers * Defenders Tarot #1 (2020)

Writer: Alan Davis Artist: Pencil/Inks Paul Renaud Artist: Colors Paul Mounts Cover Price: Secondary Market: $4.99 $3.85 – $12.99 Variants: 2 Alan Davis Variant Diablo Variant Publisher: Marvel Comics Who doesn’t love a good Defenders story?  Especially from Alan Davis who gave us the excellent, underrated and short-lived Savage Hulk series.  This time around he

The Defenders: A Year of Hulk Nicknames – Week 1

With a simple mind like the Hulk has it’s easy to understand why he would just call people what he thinks they look like – this year let’s highlight some of the best Hulk nicknames! Hulk’s names for the different heroes is as follows: Magician is Strange Sword Girl is Valkyrie Bird Nose (my favorite)

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This reminds me of the ads they’ve been running in the current Marvel Comics.

Defenders: The Best Defense (2019)

Writer: Al Ewing Artist: Pencils / Ink Joe Bennet / Belardino Brabo Cover Price: Secondary Market: Variants: 4 $4.99 $3.89 – $289.99 Arthur Adams Cover Sal Buscema Cover Valerio Schiti Cover Skottie Young Cover Publisher: Marvel Comics The Defenders, Marvel’s greatest Non-Team!  It has been way too long since we’ve seen the original lineup take

Immortal Hulk #1: Best Defense – The Variants

This past week the Hulk’s portion of the new Defenders story was released. If you haven’t read it you totally should!  The story is amazing!  Anyways, there were 5 variants released including a brilliant Jack Kirby 1:200 cover.  See below: As you can see in addition to the regular cover we were also given an