Servoret posted:

Tom DeFalco stole that ending from an earlier Grandmaster story in Giant-Size Defenders #3. There, Daredevil saves the day by challenging Grandmaster to a double or nothing bet based on a coin toss, and then rigs the coin toss by using his super-senses to feel how he has to flip the coin to produce the result that he needs. And then the Grandmaster just decides to honor the bet and fucks off instead of conquering Earth. Also, there's an art mistake that makes it look like Daredevil announces the result of the coin toss wrong, making the ending even more dumb than it already is.

(The Grandmaster honoring the bet he makes with Daredevil could arguably be in character for him, except the only reason that the bet happens at all is that Grandmaster betrays an agreement he makes with the Defenders not to try to conquer Earth when they sign on to play in his game to begin with.)







As much as I like Steve Gerber's Defenders run, that's probably the worst Defenders story he ever wrote. DeFalco's ending makes much more sense. I really liked those Avengers annuals too.

Ghostlight posted:

He says it in the fourth panel of the second page in the dialogue box that is so closely crammed in with a thought balloon that it's easy to mistake it as more thinking.

Uthor posted:

X-O posted:

Yeah that's a point in the comics. She had no idea when she was near death the control removed and she could heal herself, it just happened when she almost died. And then it hosed up her powers for a while. That was not too long before I just lost track of the book.

thetoughestbean posted:

Does anyone actually like Duke?