Whilst Roy Thomas is writing The Defenders it’s great; of course getting Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner and the Hulk together is contrived but it’s immense fun with satanic covens, demons, nuclear destruction and an alien pied piper and a pair of possessed astronauts attempting to kidnap America’s children through the medium of TV. By contrast Englehart and Buscema’s take feels weightless, an exercise in the monthly tap dance of churning out a superhero comic reflected in the cleaner lines of the art. ( )