Defenders #3 - Mobile Edition

Marvel Comics
Defenders #3
By Hervé St.Louis
December 26, 2005 - 09:47

Marvel Comics
Writer(s): Keith Giffen, J.M DeMatteis
Penciller(s): Kevin Maguire

In this issue, Dordammu plunges into the defeated Eternity, the Marvel Universe’s essence of its universe. Encouraged by his evil and scheming sister, Urma, Dordammu recreates the entire universe in his image. Namor, the Submariner and Doctor Strange escape Dordammu’s prison and land on the new Earth. Meanwhile, Urma and the Hulk have a little time together which helps end the Hulk’s perpetual hang up.

Giffen and Dematteis continue doing what they do best as team. They dig up the continuity and history of characters and mesh them in a new story where the threat, although dangerous, is treated casually. Namor and Doctor Strange are once against involved in a philosophical debate before deciding what to do next. This issue as previous ones plays on all classic super team clichés while reinventing them.

Maguire draws well, and his specialty are facial expressions. Yet, there are details that are inserted everywhere such as the bitten nails on the Hulk’s fingers, Urma’s messy hair, after her involvement with Hulk, how Namor binds his toes when he flies, how the Silver Surfer’s feet and those of the teens on the beach’ have feet lightly dug in sand. This is the type of artwork that I like to see in a comic book.