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Fearless Defenders 1: Doom Maidens Paperback – September 3, 2013

by Cullen Bunn (Author), Will Sliney (Illustrator)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
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New team! New villains! New creators! Valkyrie and Misty Knight are the Fearless Defenders, and not since Power Man and Iron Fist has an unlikely duo kicked this much - well, you know. Writer Cullen Bunn (VENOM, Sixth Gun, FEAR ITSELF: THE FEARLESS) and new-to-Marvel artist Will Sliney (MacGyver, Star Wars) bring you the book that everyone is going to be talking about...and that's a promise!
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  1. Part of Series
    Fearless Defenders
  2. Print length
    144 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Marvel Enterprises
  5. Publication date
    September 3, 2013
  6. Grade level
    10 - 12
  7. Dimensions
    6.75 x 0.25 x 10.5 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    0785168486
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0785168485
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel Enterprises; First Edition (September 3, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785168486
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785168485
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 10 - 12
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.25 x 10.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

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Cullen Bunn

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Cullen grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St. Louis area with his wife Cindy and his son Jackson. His noir/horror comic (and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt), The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The follow-up, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. In addition to The Sixth Gun, his current projects include Crooked Hills, a middle reader horror prose series from Evileye Books; The Tooth, an original graphic novel from Oni Press; and various work for Marvel and DC. Somewhere along the way, Cullen founded Undaunted Press and edited the critically acclaimed small press horror magazine, Whispers from the Shattered Forum.

All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.

And, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it.

Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.

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"...is an interesting new villain, Caroline le Fay, and a nice story ending with a cliff hanger. Do not look for too much depths here, but a lot of fun...." Read more

"...This series has awesome graphics and an okay story line. Really a shame it got cancelled...." Read more

"...This one is an interesting story, with an appearance by a character that I thought might step on DC's toes a bit, but maybe not quite...." Read more

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raymond lee chatham
5.0 out of 5 stars is good.
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2024
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Boris
4.0 out of 5 stars All-female bravado
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2013
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When DC published "Birds of Prey" at the end of the 90s, they were the first of the big companies to bring out an all-female team book. Meanwhile the all-female, nevertheless adjectiveless "X-Men" are one of the biggest sellers at Marvel and a critical success too. But the first all-female Marvel team book preceded X-Men by some months. The first 6 issues are collected here. Not included is the 4.AU Age of Ultron tie-in.
The book gets its charm by bringing together female c- and d-list characters from different worlds. The two main protagonists are Valkyrie Brunnhilde and bionic-fist-for-hire Misty Knight. Because of some messing up of all parts involved the Doom Maidens are revived, the predecessors of the Valkyrie, eventually corrupted and finally defeated by Odin. Now Brunnhilde and Misty get the task to clean up and for this purpose reform new Valkyrior. Some of the suspense lies in the question which women will be recruited. And always the two worlds, Asgard and Misty's street level world collide ("Why are you speaking like that?"), in-between archeologist Annabelle Riggs who has a crush on Valkyrie. There is an interesting new villain, Caroline le Fay, and a nice story ending with a cliff hanger. Do not look for too much depths here, but a lot of fun. The art of newcomer Will Sliney is promising; I am on board for the next issues. I would give the book 3 and a half stars, but since 3 is already considered mediocre here I am going to round up.
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Gardengrrl
5.0 out of 5 stars Woo-Hooo! Women that Kick Butt!
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2014
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There are just not enough role models for girls as super heroes. Villains maybe, but not heroes. This series has awesome graphics and an okay story line. Really a shame it got cancelled. I had found a couple of separate issues and liked it enough to order the entire series. If you are even checking this out, go a head and order it, you know it will be fun to read and the pictures are great.

Buy this series for your mean little niece, give her a cape and toy sword, then turn her loose back to your sister. BWAAAHAHAHA!
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M Ponta RN
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2014
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(No Spoilers) Here, great strong characters live and die by their wits and strengths, through a moving plot and worthy difficulties to overcome. Well worth the money.
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Jim Townsend
4.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad read.
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017
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I got this one because I was interested in more stories involving the valkyrie, Brunhilde. This one is an interesting story, with an appearance by a character that I thought might step on DC's toes a bit, but maybe not quite. That character was a little too over the top for me, but it worked in the context of the story. Not a bad read.
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Jeremy
5.0 out of 5 stars I love it! Thanks
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2015
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Quick shipping. Exactly as described. I love it! Thanks!
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Jessica
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017
unique and great story, wish it would have went continued further.
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Blaine M. Savini
1.0 out of 5 stars Convoluted pseudo morality
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2014
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A convoluted mishmash of politically correct ideologies, double sexual standards and pseudo mythology. The established characters have no relation to their established characterizations. And finally a pet peeve with "modern" comic books..... why is behaviour which would be demonized were it displayed by a man perceived as liberating and empowering when displayed by a woman? I see this so often in comic books..... I mean why is it empowering for Black Canary to punch out her husband when he upsets her but totally irredeemably damning for Hank Pym to do the same? This series follows the same skewed logic. In the second volume a lesbian character who is sharing bodies with Valkyre deliberately takes over Val's body to punch out her long established male lover while Val is being intimate with him, yet this same character in the same issue is shown having sex with a woman subjecting Valkyre to what any objective analysis would judge as an identical act. Wait it gets better.....the character who felt violated because she had to share Valkyre's body while Val was with her long established male lover is an accomplished and renowned acheologist....presumably in her thirtys and yet her chosen partner is a teen-ager whom she has just met. Valkyre far from herself feeling violated compliments the woman on her taste. I mean am I the only person who has a problem with this?????? This goes beyond double standards into male bashing fanatic left wing propaganda. This is a book about super heroes....you know people dressed in colorful costumes who go out and beat up the bad guys, and the principle market for such is children In another scene Clea, upon seeing her husband for the first time in years casually announces with a smile..."Nice to see you...I want a divorce." Would the scene have been played the same had the sexes been reversed with Dr. Strange being the one with the grin ending one of Marvel's better long lasting love/marriage stories? I am sorry this book is sexist....and I do NOT mean reverse sexism as the same rules should apply to all....why is this such a difficult concept for extremist liberals to grasp? If you want to avoid prejudice, you do NOT do so by preaching one set of rules for one group and a second privileged set of rules for a second group. Anyone who preaches differently is not fighting racism and sexism but is actually advocating such. Why is one set of rules for everyone so difficult a concept for so many to grasp? The long existing marvel characters are being used to sell a book which is essentially at its core a book of extreme left wing sexual propaganda. The book deals with homosexuality in a skewed point of view; I have no problem with the topic in comic books....I am a big fan of the work of Gilbert Hernandez whose treatment of such topics rises to the level of literature,but Hernandez writes from his heart and not from a political agenda of promoting double standards of behavior incorporating long established characters in order to sell a book which at its core on a thematic level has little to do with the histories of these characters. If you remember Claremont, Gerber and Englehart's handling of some of these characters, you will not enjoy this title. One last point both volumes are filled with small print fan letters praising the boldness and sensitivity of the works....volume 2 literally has 5 pages of this tripe without a single negative letter and all of them written by people from a very similar level of education yet I notice the title was cancelled anyway due to lack of sales.....now I would not go so far as to state that these letters were fake....still it wouldn't be a stretch.
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Ink Punk
5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Love Misty Knight :)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 18, 2021
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I remember flicking through some 70s reprints and thinking Misty knight was alright.. back when she and Carol Danvers were nothing special. Misty back then with her street slang was amusing to read...
So having her still speak in that way now and having her be a badass charatcter is just awesome.
I read Heroes for hire because I love her so much.
This one was NOT as good but more mainstream marvel gets a bit repetitive after a while so reading a book like this is refreshing.
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Disteenguished_Monstoor
5.0 out of 5 stars Women in comics ROCK!
Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2014
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This was actually a good read, more for the character interactions than the threat of the villains. Good to see an all female book! The interior art is pretty good and the cover art of the comics was fantastic
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sanders
5.0 out of 5 stars fearless defenders
Reviewed in France on October 7, 2013
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comics génial, drole , feministe , les dessins sont magnifique , j'attend le volume 2 au mois de février avec impatience
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Ghostgrey51
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Promise but ....Depends What You're Looking For
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2014
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Misty Knight is a character who is usually in Heroes for Hire and I reckon deserves Grade A because she generally gets to be portrayed as one of the rare characters in Marvelverse who is down to earth and what she lacks in earth-shattering powers (I mean, a bionic arm is no big deal, right?) she makes up for in street-smarts and quick wits. Valkyrie has tended to be portrayed as humourless `ice maiden' and often used as a foil to bring team mates more rounded characters in relief. It was interesting to see what would happen when they were brought into a new run as a team of opposite characters.

The story has a few stock situations.
Firstly: The return of something grim from Asgard's long ages helped along by a stone cold evil person; Caroline Le Fey (note the surname folks), she is aided by your standard, vicious mercenary for hire (Mr Raven).
Secondly: Hero possession by dark forces; it's a shame this has been over-used so much by Marvel writers in recent years as in this situation in makes perfect sense.

There's much action, lots of Asgard-speak. Ares' daughter Hippolyta is introduced; since she is of Greek pantheon we are treated to snarky comments about Asgard; as Misty has no time for anyone's bombast she deals in a few sharp remarks of her own (`you can out-Xena each other when we've finished the job'). Thus there's quite a layer of wit in this, including those dry descriptive boxes under characters from time to time.
Dani Moonstar is in on the scene with a pivotal role so has an archaeologist Annabelle Riggs and thus we have a five woman team.
Valkyrie's role is central, being at one part of the cause of the threat, overtaken by the threat and also its destruction; it's refreshing to see her with expressions of contrition and sorrow and not just the standard glower of disapproval or pre-combat snarl she's often given.

So there is much that's good in action, fun and derring-do; trouble is there are a few shortfalls that nag at me, these might be just picky but I'll cite the most obvious examples of them and you can make up your own mind:
(1) Villains. The art work is good particularly in the use of shadow to highlight their sinister nature. Sadly the dialogue is right out of Villain-Stock Phrases, and they could be just another pair of Manipulative Suits, even if Le Fey's motivation is quite rationally psychotic (If you get my meaning). Also Raven comes across as a complete meat head- supposed to be a secret snatch mission and he takes out an entire street so there are no witnesses- so the guy has never heard of a crime scene involving multiple deaths?...duhhhh!
(2)Asgard scene, so there's The Earth Mother(s) standing there in their throne room and up pops Hela;, she and Valkyrie go sword to sword and dialogue to dialogue and no one does much for two pages about it apart from fill up the background.
(3) Something Grim from Asgard's Past: Trying to avoid spoilers, but this bears more than passing similarity to Thor: Siege Aftermath. Issues 611-614 (Thor (Marvel))
(4) Plot device: To avoid spoilers I shall be very vague and not say whether this is person or circumstance. Anyhow it is very pronounced throughout the whole book and then is disposed of at the end. If this was a stand-alone one shot; ok that would make sense, but as what appears to be the start of an arc, well it seemed a bit of a waste of potential really and only to bring in a dash of melodrama; shame really.

Overall this is entertaining, but misses the mark from being exceptional. The artwork, the underlying theme, and the heroes' dialogue made it an enjoyable read, but for me it lost out on one star for
Standard Villains
Plot devices `Filched' from Other Marvel Arcs
Promising aspects disposed of purely for melodrama.

Even so I would recommend it because those niggles aside the book has much to offer.
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Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2013
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Amazing story, great characters and the introduction of "warrior woman" is really interesting.
Women, women, women everywhere its a nice change to be honest.
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