2.17 (382) Defenders vol 1 #150 ... Marvel ...

Well let's take a quick breather from all that fantastic people and switch to Marvel's other team book - Defenders. For those not in the know, this book was touted as the non-team team book in the sense that initially more than 10 years ago when the book was launched, it was by a group of misfits who had to work together not because they want to

And they do not generally have a HQ or whatever ... but due to fate ... and even then it continued for a good 152 issues before being relaunched into shorter and ever shorter runs including the Secret Defenders and other forms of Defenders such as "light hearted style" etc

Well in this their big 150 it is a double sized extravaganza as the problem of the past finally comes to an end. A while back, a young teenager was merged - boy and girl into a child named cloud (supposedly) who can be either girl or boy as he/ she sees fit. Here we see the truth

And here the Defenders are also summoned into space to right with the Star Thief because in one part of the universe, stars are blinking out one by one ... and one of the more sentient celestial beings i.e. a sentient star comes crying looking for aid and response is from cloud

So the Defenders rally and fly off (like real eh) into space to immediately encounter the dangerous being that is the Star Thief whose powers seemed to be insurmountable and yet whose attitude is perhaps a wee bit more childish than can be expected

A decent read, an interesting read, a decent artwork but nothing spectacular. So you can understand that in 2 more issues the series will end

Ratings: 6/10