REVIEW: Defenders #12

[CBR News]

"Defenders" #12 from Matt Fraction and Mirco Pierfederici brings this run to an enigmatic and emotional close.


Full review here.

[Beamesonfilm]

I love the big ideas in this book but, sadly, the fact that no one seems to have read it leads me to doubt that anything in it will be referenced again. Loved this series, but felt #12 was a very hurried conclusion following its untimely cancellation. Still, glad Fraction got to bring it to an end and fitting that the end goes back to the series best character moment - with Strange in that diner.

[klinton]

I was actually satisfied with the last issue. I jumped on late, when Fury showed up, and scrambled to assemble the entire run...but it was worth it.

I don't feel the end was rushed, so much as that we missed some fun tangents that might have been. I feel though that this was the intended ending.

The series stands, in my opinion, as a solid little run.

[Majin Gojira]

It's a tight wrap up to the series, but I'll be perfectly frank, my suspension of disbelief was utterly shattered when the Immortal Weapons were killed midway through. Now their deaths are undone, but it really rubbed me the wrong way. Primarily because they had no bearing on the series before their shocking death appearance. Fat Cobra appears, relays information and then we get a dead body montage. I know, it's a standard hard boiled detective sort of trope to have an old friend suddenly appear/die and have the hero track them down because "NOW IT'S PERSONAL", but that works best when the audience does not know the character in question already. Here, it just didn't work. The story itself didn't do anything to make the audience sympathize with their loss. Iron Fist reacted, certainly, but it just felt flat overall.

I was with the series right up until that point. Then? Dropped. Now? I'm not sure I'd go back and pick up the trades for it. The clash between the hard boiled set up and the uber-fantastsic story is just too great for me.

[Beamesonfilm]

I'll have to give it another read. It just seemed to speed up a lot in the last issue and stuff that could have taken several issues was reduced to captions saying "and then this happened" and, maybe I'm being a bit slow, but I wasn't actually sure exactly what was supposed to be happening in a few of those pages! I loved the series overall though, so will definitely re-read it.