{"id":20553,"date":"2024-02-09T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20553"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:51:28","slug":"secret-defenders-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/02\/09\/secret-defenders-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Defenders 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This one is ALSO named with a Macbeth quote! Why 3 out of 4!? Inker Don Hudson returns to wrap us up. Everyone spends the first 4 pages recapping at each other, the heroes exhausted, Melinda begging Xandu not to ruin everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, like, one assumes every graveyard in the world must be emptying out, right? Surely not just this one. That seems like it would be a\u2026 big event. Cap & the cops fall back, but Cap worries they\u2019re only delaying the inevitable. Back on the death world, Xandu and Strange are having another anime beam fight when Xandu says it\u2019s too bad they didn\u2019t bring Cap, as he would like to see what the wand would do to his shield, and Strange has an idea. He sends a zap through time and space to hit the Crystal of Kadavus, which is inexplicably at Cap\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did Cap just make a love connection? Look at that face! Xandu is obviously not pleased about this baffling development, and goes through a portal after her. The cops are obviously completely confused, but Cap has heard enough to guess who Melinda is. She uses her command over the dead to stop the zombies, but then Xanny appears on the scene. He\u2019s trying to force Melinda back to the Death Dimension with him, but Cap (somehow) yoinks her out of his grasp and runs off\u2026 until a zombie reaches up out of a grave and grabs his ankle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some pretty weird dialogue in this. Peach pits? I legit don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Xanny says Strange couldn\u2019t bring any more sorcery into this plane than already exited here (??) and Melinda says he just combined the 3 sources already present in her (???) making her far more powerful than Xandu (????). She gives him a zap that makes him drop the wand, which Spider-Man webs to himself. Xanny launches into a big \u201chow could you betray me?\u201d speech to the woman he\u2019s been ignoring and silencing this whole issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What two worlds are those? Doesn\u2019t much look like Earth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melinda\u2019s explanation makes no sense. Cap \u201cinstinctively\u201d knew she had to become \u201cthe true queen?\u201d Come on, Roy. and the attempt to paper over how Spidey and Wanda didn\u2019t really do anything on this entire adventure doesn\u2019t work. Well, Melinda says it\u2019ll be lonely there, but she\u2019ll be ok, and magicks the gang home, where Strange arrives in a normal suit & tie, everyone making up a cover story for him as some regular doctor on the spot. I guess he\u2019s a secret? I know precious little about the good doctor. Everyone decides it\u2019s time to go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaaaalrighty! I cannot imagine what could\u2019ve led to her being so devoted to a lunatic with such bad taste in facial hair, but what do I know about love between magicians? That does it for the final battle between Xandu, Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Melinda never appears again. Xandu is among a bunch of nobody villains obviously chosen at random to die when Punisher blows up a bar in the mid-2000s, a fate shared with a few other nobodies we\u2019ve seen on this blog. Most of them got better, of course, but Xanny stayed dead. His goofy tale is ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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