SUPERSTARS AL EWING & JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ REUNITE FOR A COSMOS-COLLIDING JOURNEY! To prevent a new star from destroying Earth, Strange uses eternity magic at a high cost everyone is taken to Taa, the home planet of Galactus in the Sixth Cosmos. After Strange's old friend Silver Surfer and Red Harpy arrive, the cards summon Cloud but in gaseous nebula form. Strange uses his Tarot of the Secret Flame cards to find appropriate allies for them. The Masked Raider suddenly appears at Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum warning that Carlo Zota is trying to alter history using the magic-based time travel of Sise-Neg. Synopsis for 'Eighth Cosmos: The Magician' American Revolutionary War (Referenced).Eternity Mask (Main story and flashback).The Enclave's laboratory (Only in flashback).Beehive, Atlantic Ocean (Only in recap).Prime Marvel Universe / Earth-616 (Main story and flashback).Multiverse (As the Eighth Cosmos and the Sixth Cosmos).Project Adam-IV (Michael Korvac) (Only in flashback).

Thunderer (Jerry Carstairs) (Only in recap).

Masked Raider (Jim Gardley) (Only in recap).

Jerome Hamilton) (Leaves team in recap only)

Scientists Guild (Earth-616) / Enclave (Main story and flashback) (As Scientists Guild (Earth-616) and Scientists Guild (Earth-616) in recap only).

Red Harpy (Betty Ross-Banner) (Joins group).

Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (Joins group).

There was no point to his Namor issue besides getting the character into space for the idiotic finale.Ībsolutely pants from start to finish, Namor succinctly sums it up at the end when he sarcastically says “Another exciting non-team-up for The Defenders.Sarah Brunstad Appearing in 'Eighth Cosmos: The Magician' He seems like a fun dude to hang out with in real life so I imagine all the industry people who vote in the Eisners just like him as a person – he’s a horrible writer.

The Chip Zdarsky-scripted Namor issue in particular was painful to read – how this dude ever got an Eisner is beyond me.

The Doctor Strange and Silver Surfer issues were the definition of workmanlike. None of the specials stood out as worth reading. The only connecting thread between them is that someone in a bedsheet is stabbing people – I’ve already forgotten who and why! And it all leads up to fighting a giant space squid?! What a load of crap. The “story” is a disjointed mess of uninteresting garbage. The Best Defense is the worst Defenders book I’ve read yet! Doctor Strange is dead, Hulk, Namor and Silver Surfer are putzing about, and someone wearing a sheet is stabbing people.

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