(Or, possibly, Magik once again.) If I wanted an unknown magical character for a wild card, I would have dug deep and grabbed someone from the 90s like Vengeance, or that Latina Ghost Rider from South America. If I wanted teleporters who could travel between realities, I would have grabbed Portal. If I wanted mages, I probably would have grabbed Wiccan, Magik, or Hellstorm. For one thing, people usually forget that she can take a human form whenever she wishes. This issue weirdly calls her a 'were-woman,' which is not usually how she is advertised. She's usually just treated as a generic cat lady, despite the fact she is supposed to have empathy and some magical potential that other people usually forget about.

Tigra is fine, but I'm not really sure why she's here. They were blatant about this at the tail end of the last run of Young Avengers, when Loki compared himself to Tyrion from Game of Thrones, getting Wiccan and Hulkling to say that such tricksters are of course everyone's favorite characters.

This teen version of Loki is gender fluid and all about trickery, and the writers always write him in such a way that they just ASS-ume fans are going to love him best. And this version of Loki is the type I find most cringe, despite the fact I'm a gay man myself. And what little we knew about her was recently retconned, at the same time as she was also Nerfed. I like comics that pay attention to continuity, recognizing the historical significance of earlier Defenders teams.īut, I don't really care for this particular cast. I like superheroes with legit powers, and who aren't just powerless street toughs in costume. And even without the universe seemingly, the cosmic being Eternity pretending to be a residual spell from Doctor Strange meant to band together a new team of Defenders, Blue Marvel was perfectly capable of traveling to places outside of the universe with his room full of portals. I found myself Marvel-ing about how blasé all these characters were about the universe pulling them together to be a team against their will. Blue Marvel seems sensible, so I like having a steady head as the person saying, 'We can't save the multiverse as long as we're inside it!' Or, you know. On the one hand, this read like exactly the kind of comic I would want to read. 3.5, and I'm still on the fence about it.

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