How to get people to buy a Defenders Comic Book

[samurainoir]

Call it The New Avengers!


Was this Bendis' plan all along? To slowly turn the Avengers line-up into Defenders?

[thunderbolt]

I really liked the Erik Larsen version from a few years back. Not sure what the New Avengers line up is now.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Not what I was expecting. My ideas:

-promise to return their kids
-the triumphant return of "Elf with a gun"
-a 34 part tie in series with every other Marvel comic
-holo-covers

Don C.

[The Toyroom]

Bendis needs to be removed from the Avengers franchise IMO.....he's been on it waaay too long now and it's getting boring.

[samurainoir]

I really liked the Erik Larsen version from a few years back. Not sure what the New Avengers line up is now.

The latest issue has Strange, Hellcat, Valkyrie, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil and Doctor Voodoo. Seems like a Defenders line-up to me!

[The Toyroom]

^ Where's Nighthawk?

[samurainoir]

^ Where's Nighthawk?

Over in the Supreme Power Universe?


Where is Cloud and Gargoyle!

[The Toyroom]

That's not the same Nighthawk

[jwyblejr]

How do you get people to buy a Defenders comic? That's easy. Have Valkyrie and Hellcat mud wrestling on the cover.

[The Toyroom]

If they brought back the Defenders I'd like to see Nighthawk, Hellcat, Valkyrie, The Hulk, Son of Satan, Silver Surfer be core members with Dr. Strange advising (he DOESN'T belong in the Avengers IMO....neither do Spidey or Wolverine). Have them take on the supernatural and cosmic weirdness. And push the guest-star thing in short story arcs...because it's a "non-team", have a rotating series of add-on players like Sub-Mariner or Gargoyle or Ghost Rider. Sort of like Mission:Impossible where Jim Phelps ALWAYS picked the same team from his dossier with the exception of the occasional guest-star.