Fearless Defenders #7

Fearless Defenders #7 was good and continues the quality you would expect from the Defenders comic book.  Annabelle has received her reward with an afterlife in Valhalla.  Needless to say she is not happy with the warriors’ heaven.  It does turn out that Valkyrie is out looking for a way to bring Annabelle back to life.  How this all works out it kind of interesting, a spell is cast I could go on and but really that would just spoil the comic.  So just go get yourself a copy and read it.  Needless to say this comic ends with a to be continued moment.

Fearless Defenders #6

The Fearless Defenders #6 was another excellent issue.  We see the completion of the fight against the Doom Maidens and Valkyrie who had become the Doom Maiden of Rage.  But after beating all the other supers it came down to Annibelle the one without powers to save the day.  We all knew that was going to happen but I was happy to see it was what the writer did.  The end of the issue has a good speech that could easily have been from the final issue of a series.  They are Defenders and I am really happy I kept reading this comic.

Fearless Defenders #5!

The Fearless Defenders #5 – Where we continue the Doom Maiden story line.  We first see Moonstar Hippolyta and Valkyrie awaiting the arrival of the Doom Maidens in a remote and far away part of our world.  The Doom Maidens arrive riding dragons, one of which Hippolyta kills.  The fight is interrupted by the arrival of a large number of female super heroes – it is a rather dramatic splash page.  We now add to the battle Spider-Woman, Black Cat, Tigra, Hellcat, Elektra, She-Hulk, Storm, Thundra, Tarantula, Colleen Wing, Black Widow, Captain Marvel and Misty Knight.  While the Valkyrie traveled to the out of the way place, Misty Knight had gone recruiting supers to help in the fight.  Some are destined to be Shield Maidens (only nine actually) but apparently having a few extra heroes is not a bad thing.  We learn a number of things about Annabelle Riggs and Moonstar.  The story here remains very interesting and I cannot wait for the next issue.

Fearless Defenders #4

Fearless Defenders #4 was good if a bit wordy.  The Doom Maidens are risen and getting more powerful by the moment.  Valkyrie is it turns out a Doom Maiden.  They manage to save Moonstar and they all escape.  Valkyrie has a flashback and proposes a plan of action.  While there is not much to say about this issue it was entertaining and moved the story forward.

Fearless Defenders #3!!

The Fearless Defenders #3 is another good issue and entertaining to boot.  Valkyrie, Misty Knight and Annabelle Riggs are joined by Hela’s chapion Hippolyta.  The four of them are sent by the All Mother to a town to find and stop the Doom Maidens.  Annabelle Riggs has now been promoted to Shield Maiden with interesting results.  They manage to find and rescue Moonstar, but Hippolyta is taken out of the fight and Valkyrie after breaking free of the enchantment is recognized by the Doom Maidens (the fallen Valkyrie) as one of their own.  This story gets more and more interesting as the issues go along.  It will be interesting to see where this story goes.

The Fearless Defenders #2!!!

Fearless Defenders #2 was again an entertaining comic book continuing where the previous issue had left off.  Though the story starts out with the kidnaping of X-men / New Mutant Moonstar and while she put up a valiant defense she was captured by normal humans.  It will be hard to believe that she would then be of much use against evil Asgardian or the undead.  Though I suspect we will find her doing just that in future issues.  We then return to following Valkyrie, Misty Knight and Annabelle Riggs who have traveled to Oklahoma to visit Asgard to learn about the Death Maidens.  It turns out Valkyrie has been procrastinating in her task to find additional Valkyries to lead in defense of the universe.  There is much recrimination and then a fight with Hela Queen of the Underworld of death.  This leads to the final splash page where Hela introduces a new character Warrior Woman or as she prefers to be called Hippolyta.  At this point I will speculate that since the Valkyrie was tasks with finding new Warrior women and having found all supers so far lacking.  I also notice that so far we have only met female heroes and gods that this incarnation of the Defenders the Fearless Defenders will become Valkyries or at least fight under Brunhilde’s leadership.  This could make for some very interesting storytelling.  I wonder how the writers will mess it up.