DEFENDERS #1
Daredevil! Luke Cage! Jessica Jones! Iron Fist! Individually, these four heroes have been on the front lines of the battle to keep the streets of the city safe and secure! But now, with a deadly enemy from the dim past making a major move to unite the underworld, they will need to become more — they will need to become DEFENDERS!
Just a sampling of the variant covers, process and script pages to be found in the massive digital exclusive deluxe edition of Civil War II #1 by Brian Michael Bendis @brianmichaelbendis and David Marquez (variants by Michael Cho, Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson). It’s new today from Marvel!
Stuff is about to get real.
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Written by Brian Michael Bendis @brianmichaelbendis
Art by David Marquez
Colors by Justin Ponsor
Prediction for my future: SO MUCH UGLY-CRYING
So here’s the gist of things: Ulysses is an Inhuman with precognitive abilities. There are super-teams who think his foresight is a useful tool in keeping the world safe, and others who have concerns about the “probability ratio” of his visions. So, although this event is called “Civil War II,” the only thing it has in common with Marvel’s first Civil War event is that a lot of super-people disagree about how to do their super-personing and some of them get hurt in the process.
In a community as large as Marvel’s universe, it makes total sense that this sort of fundamental disagreement would come up every so often. Different kinds of powers, training, and personalities are going to give individuals different perspectives on how to best protect themselves, each other, and the world. I don’t usually get into big events like this, but the stakes here feel very real and I have a lot of feelings about it. Please understand that I must now use all caps because lower case letters cannot fully express my emotions.
SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE ARE HERE!
AW YEAH PENTAGRAM-ED HELLSTROM TORSO!
OMG HE IS HITTING ON WANDA SOMEONE WRITE A ONE-SHOT OF THAT!
DAVID & JUSTIN YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GOOD AT FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!
WELP GUESS I SHIP JEAN GREY AND ULYSSES NOW BYE!
OMG I AM TEAM STARK WHAT EVEN!
WAIT…
WAIT WHAT IS HAPPENING
I DID NOT ASK FOR THESE FEELINGS
PLEASE STOP
THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN
I CANNOT HANDLE IT WHEN THEY MAKE THE SAD FACES PLEASE NO
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THOSE TWO I CANNOT TOO SAD TOO SAD
NO YOU DID NOT
Tia Vasiliou is a Digital Editor at comiXology. You can listen to her flail about comics and feelings on the I Read Comic Books Podcast at ircb.us or on iTunes.