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Brad Brickley
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| Posted: 06 October 2013 at 11:17am | IP Logged | 1
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I think this is fabulous! Just about a perfect commission.
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Brian Hague
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Edited by Brian Hague on 13 October 2013 at 8:59pm
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Steven McCauley
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This absolutely makes me wish JB had done a Defenders run.
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Charles Valderrama
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| Posted: 06 October 2013 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | 4
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Looking at this commission brings me back.... remember reading DEFENDERS #50 - When Nick Fury's brother became the criminal Scorpio and he created the criminal group Zodiac and they fought the Defenders. that issue got me hooked on the series.... and, yes, it would've been cool to see JB take a shot at the title.
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Chris Wood
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What a great commission. I was just thinking a week or so ago that I couldn't recall a JB take on the Defenders. It didn't disappoint!
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Brad Hague
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| Posted: 07 October 2013 at 11:27am | IP Logged | 6
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This is way better than I expected, not remembering whether JB had ever done a depiction of the Defenders. I LOVE this. Everything about this is great!
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Paul Go
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| Posted: 07 October 2013 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | 7
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Love it!
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David Allen Perrin
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The Defenders were always a lot of fun.
With this particular line-up, who COULD'NT they beat!?
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Greg Tigges
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Incredible piece! Makes me miss the old Defenders stories and Hellcat's evolution from simple Patsy Walker to Hellcat from Avengers. I bet she could have been a really fun character to write and draw but I guess when Spidey's Blackcat came along, she was too similiar and pretty much forgotten. Now to read about a comic character such as Patsy Walker grow from a romance character in the 40's to Hellcat to Spidey's girlfriend would have been a fun story to read. Would have brought Ms. Walker more recognition IMO and into the more modern era! Time paradoxes be damned!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 October 2013 at 9:43am | IP Logged | 10
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Now to read about a comic character such as Patsy Walker grow from a romance character in the 40's to Hellcat to Spidey's girlfriend would have been a fun story to read. Would have brought Ms. Walker more recognition IMO and into the more modern era! Time paradoxes be damned!•• Well, unless we're insisting the Patsy who became Hellcat was in her fifties (or more), there's no reason to fret about time paradoxes. We can remember that most comic book writers use Present Tense when telling their stories -- all the stories take place NOW, regardless of when we read them. Unless something is deliberately tied to a specific time and place -- Captain America's WW2 adventures, for instance -- it's best to ignore the 'topical references" and think simply in terms of "before", not how LONG before. This was something that seemed to cause some readers a great deal of consternation when I was doing HIDDEN YEARS. I set my tales in "Marvel Time", meaning they'd happened only a very short span of years before the then-current X-MEN titles. This generated complaints about Bobby Drake wearing his baseball cap backward, or characters using cellphones -- tho Professor X owning a Hummer didn't seem to bother anybody!
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 09 October 2013 at 7:04am | IP Logged | 11
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Over the years, as everybody wandered in and out of pretty much all of
Marvel's group books, that original moment of conception kinda got
diluted, but it was a fun ride while it lasted.
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Couldn't have put it better, myself. Great commission.
Without going too much off-topic, I could never really muster up much enthusiasm for The Champions, though. The Defenders worked due to the dysfunctional nature of the "team" and the fact that they were just a bunch of loners coming together when necessary. It was a fun ride.
However, with all due respect to The Champions and their fans, that book, whilst slightly enjoyable, just felt like someone at Marvel had said," Throw together several random heroes and come up with a team." I know their origins, but unlike the non-team of the Defenders, the forming of the Champions didn't feel "organic" or coherent. Maybe it was just me.
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Geoff Lander
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Excellent. Love the perspective.
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