Comic Browser: #1 - I Slay By The Stars #2 - The Search For The Silver Surfer #3 - Four Against The Gods #4 - The New Defender: Valkyrie Rides Again! #5 - World Without End? (Cry: Yandroth!) #6 - The Dreams Of Death #7 - War Beneath The Waves #8 - ... If Atlantis Should Fall! #9 - Divide And Conquer #10 - Breakthrough: The Incredible Hulk vs. the Mighty Thor #11 - A Dark And Stormy Knight #12 - The Titan Strikes Back! #13 - For Sale: One Planet... Slightly Used! #14 - And Who Shall Inherit The Earth? #15 - Panic Beneath The Earth? #16 - Alpha The Ultimate Mutant! #17 - Power Play! #18 - Rampage! #19 - Doomball! #20 - The Woman She Was...! #21 - Enter: The Headmen! #22 - Fangs Of Fire And Blood! #23 - ... The Snakes Shall Inherit The Earth! #24 - In The Jaws Of The Serpent! #25 - The Serpent Sheds Its Skin! #26 - Savage Time! #27 - Three Worlds To Conquer! #28 - My Mother, The Badoon! #29 - Let My Planet Go! #30 - Gold Diggers Of Fear! #31 - Nighthawk's Brain! #32 - Musical Minds! #33 - Webbed Hands, Warm Heart! #34 - I Think We're All Bozos In This Book! #35 - Bring Back My Body To Me, To Me...! #36 - A Garden Of Earthly Demise! #37 - Evil In Bloom! #38 - Exile To Oblivion! #39 - Riot In Cellblock 12! #40 - Love, Anarchy And, Oh Yes... The Assassin! #41 - Intruder In The Sand! #42 - And In This Corner: The New Emissaries Of Evil! #43 - This World Is Mine! #44 - Rage Of The Rajah! #45 - We Must Free The Defenders! #46 - Who Remembers Scorpio? (Prelude) #47 - Night Moves! #48 - Who Remembers Scorpio? Part 1: Sinister Savior! #49 - Rampage: Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Two #50 - Scorpio Must Die! Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Three #51 - A Round With The Ringer! #52 - Defender Of The Realm #53 - The Power Principle, Part 1: The Prince And The Presence! #54 - A Study in Survival! The Power Principle Part Two #55 - Emotion, Ego... and Empty Expectations #56 - Val's New York Adventure #57 - And Along Came... Ms. Marvel! #58 - Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 1 Agents of Fortune #59 - Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 2 Tyranny and Mutation #60 - The Revenge of Vera Gemini! Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 3 #61 - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lunatik #62 - Membership Madness! Dollar Bill’s Documentary Disaster Part 1! #63 - Deadlier by the Dozen! #64 - D-Day! #65 - Of Ambitions and Giant Amoebas #66 - War of the Dead! Val in Valhalla Part One #67 - We, The Unliving... #68 - Valhalla Can Wait! Val in Valhalla Part Three #69 - The Anything Man #70 - Catch a Falling Lunatik! #71 - Stranger and Stranger in a Strange Land #72 - Up From The Sky #73 - Of Wizards, Shadows and Kings #74 - Fools Rush In #75 - Poetic Justice #76 - Little Triggers! #77 - Waiting For The End Of The World! #78 - The Return of the Original Defenders! #79 - Chains of Love! #80 - Once A Defender #81 - War in Ogeon #82 - Wizard-Death! #83 - End Of The Tunnel #84 - Battle Royal! #85 - Like a Proud Black Panther… #86 - The Left Hand of Silence! #87 - Inquest #88 - Lord of the Whales #89 - A Death in the Family! #90 - Mind Over Mandrill! #91 - Defiance #92 - Eternity... Humanity... Oblivion! #93 - The Woman Behind the Man! #94 - Beware... The Six-Fingered Hand! #95 - The Vampire Strikes Back! #96 - The Rock and Roll Conspiracy! #97 - Slouching Toward Bethlehem #98 - The Hand Closes! #99 - The Final Conflict? #100 - Hell on Earth! #101 - Renewal #102 - Mind Games #103 - The Haunting of Christianboro #104 - Yesterday Never Dies! #105 - ... Rising... #106 - The War to End All Wars #107 - On Death and Dying... #108 - The Wasteland! #109 - Vengeance! Cries the Valkyrie #110 - ... Hunger... #111 - Fathers and Daughters #112 - Strange Visitor From Another Planet #113 - Moon Madness #114 - Dance of Darkness, Dance of Light #115 - A Very Wrong Turn #116 - Two By Two #117 - The Gift #118 - The Double #119 - Ashes, Ashes... We All Fall Down #120 - Sanctuary #121 - Savior #122 - Things To Come #123 - Of Elves And Androids #124 - Darkness On The Edge Of Time #125 - Hello, I Must Be Going. (or... Mad Dogs and Elvishmen!)
Review: Omega the Unknown (and his comic book) may be dead but his supporting cast is still kicking around so, for some arcane reason, Ed Hannigan imported a few of them into the Defenders milieu. It’s an odd choice, especially since I don’t think anyone was demanding to see Amber Grant and Richard Rory again—and the latter was said to be a self-portrait of Steve Gerber so another writer taking over the character seems very odd. But Foolkiller promises some crazy action for a couple of issues anyway. Then Nighthawk/Kyle Richmond is forcibly extracted from the series—while still appearing regularly. The big question? In that full page portrait, why does he look like Lurch from THE ADDAMS FAMILY? Then Doctor Strange contacts the Sub-Mariner, trying to get him to the setting for issues #71-73, presumably because the writer and artist liked working on that story arc. The Hulk can’t make up his mind whether or not he wants friends so we get not one but two incidents wherein he is interrupted by the outside world and reacts violently (but harmlessly—unless, you know, you need the train to get to work and back home). And then the Foolkiller acts like a fool but trying to kill someone besides himself. Oh and the original reviewer rated this issue at one star. I thought this a bit harsh so I bumped it up to three.
Comments: Part one of two parts. This is the second Foolkiller, Gregory Salinger, introduced in OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #8-9. Richard Rory was a regular character in MAN-THING, starting at issue #2, then showed up in OMEGA THE UNKNOWN before landing here. Amber Grant (also known as Amber Douglas) appeared in OMEGA THE UNKNOWN (every issue) and will now reside here until issue #81. Mentioned last issue, this is the first appearance of Kyle’s lawyer, Milton Rosenblum, who will show up frequently over the next several issues. Bill and Ledge are going to see INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, most likely the 1978 version, unless they are going to a revival theater. The letters page includes an announcement that, in response to reader input claiming the book has gotten too crazy, they will be moving toward more traditional storytelling. A shame as that was what actually made it interesting.
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