#Stephen Conway

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

JOHN LAWRENCE

Once again we turn to the fanciful engravings of English illustrator and wood engraver John Lawrence (b. 1933), this time from a small (4.25" x 3") 1992 Folio Society edition of Robert Browning's version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, printed at The Bath Press in Bath, England on Fabriano Ingres laid paper. The engravings themselves are only 3" x 2", but they are vivid and richly detailed.

John Lawrence, whose career spans nearly 70 years, is one of England's most-respected living wood engravers. He has illustrated well over 200 books and has taught his craft at the Brighton School of Art, Camberwell School of Art, and Cambridge School of Art from the 1960s to 2010. He has influenced generations of noted contemporary wood engravers, and was himself a student of Gertrude Hermes (view some wood engravings by Hermes we have posted).

Our copy of the Folio Society's Pied Piper is yet another donation from the estate of our late friend and colleague Dennis Bayuzick. The book was originally bound in full moire silk by Hunter and Foulis, but our copy was specially rebound in 2001 by English bookbinder Stephen Conway (see below).

View more posts with wood engravings by John Lawrence.

View other illustrations for the Pied Piper by Kate Greenaway and Sarah Chamberlain.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View more posts with wood engravings!

[ianchisnall]

A focus on Special Needs Schools in House of Lords

On Thursday 24th October in the House of Lords referred to Educational need. The opening comment was “That this House takes note of the contribution that special needs schools and specialist education colleges make to the education sector.” Several people commented including the Bishop of Lincoln, Stephen Conway. The Minister, Baroness Smith of Malvern who is Jacqui Smith is the Lords…

[lempickathemusical]

We do not control the world  We control one flat rectangle of canvas at a time LEMPICKA (2024)

[nerds-yearbook]

The series finale for babylon 5 aired on November 25, 1998. It had been filmed the previous season when they weren't sure if there was going to be a season 5. When season 5 was green lit, this episode was held back and a new season 4 finale was made. The episode took place 20 years after the events in the regular series and went from December 28, 2280 through January 20, 2281. It dealt with the decommissioning of the Babylon 5 station (creator J Michael Straczynski played the worker turning off the station) and the second death of John Sheridan. Before his body gave out, Sheridan met with friends and visited Babylon 5 before it was set to be destroyed. Mysteriously, Sheridan's body vanished from the starship he had taken his final journey on. ("Sleeping in Light", Babylon 5, TV Event)

[naturalblue22]

star crossed coworkers

[doctorstrangereview]

0148: Marvel Team-Up #35

Cover Date: July 1975 On-Sale Date: April 22, 1975

Marvel Team-Up is usually a Spidey and guest book, but for this issue Spidey takes a break and the Human Torch teams up with Doc. The story begins two issues earlier (with Spidey.) First teaming up with fellow Defender Nighthawk and then with fellow Defender Valkyrie we are introduced to Jeremiah, a religious fanatic supernatural villain.

Previously, in Marvel Team-Up: Spidey encounters Nighthawk and he tells Spidey about a villain named The Meteor Man. They look for his alter-ego's lab and find it's been taken over a religious nut named Jeremiah. Meteor Man attacks the pair. Nighthawk is reluctant to pursue as he believes the man is ill. This pisses Spidey off and they fight again. In Jeremiah's headquarters, the self-professed Messiah orders his followers to capture Spidey and make him a ritual sacrifice.

The next issues finds Spidey being attacked by the Meteor Man. Next we look in on Nighthawk and Valkyrie. Val is pissed at Nighthawk because he started fighting the Meteor Man and gave up halfway through. She takes off. A pair of police officers go to a deconsecrated church due for demolition and find Jeremiah and his followers making a night at The Limelight look like a kindergarten nap. Jeremiah reduces the officers to little piles of smoldering ash while his followers continue their libertine activities. Spidey and Val run into each other and then run into The Meteor Man. Hilarity ensues. Meteor Man falls from a great height. He lives but will take months to recover.

And now, on to our main Doc review: Our story opens with an ominous chapter title of Dark Immortal and Doc looking in his Orb of Agamotto and an image of Johnny Storm in Human Torch mode. Doc apparently needs Mr. Storm's talents for some reason.

After reviewing some recent Torch antics, Doc engages in reader exposition by talking to himself and revealing that Spidey and Val have vanished after their Meteor Man encounter and whatever it is Doc needs to do, he can't do it alone.

Doc sits down to brood a bit. Clea enters and asks if she can help. Apparently her presence is sufficient for Doc to make up his mind and heads out to head off the Human Torch. Doc asks the Torch to help him locate Val. Torchie agrees because he doesn't happen to have anything better to do at the moment. Go Torch!

The Torch heads to Meteor Man's alter-ego's apartment and encounters a weird little boy who mentions Jeremiah. Finally! The story threads start to come together!

Yes, Johnny is wearing a a spiffy red and yellow uniform in place of the typical blue one. Man that kid is creepy. The creepy kid describes Val and Johnny is glad he didn't report his Jeremiah. Except he did and Jeremiah shows up to knock the stuffing out of Johnny-boy.

In Chapter Two: The Church of Blood, which is nearly the overall title of the story, we start with Val tied to an altar and Johnny tied to a nearby pole. As soon as Jeremiah mentions sacrifice, Johnny flames on and bursts his bonds. Jeremiah snuffs his flame and the ritual continues.

Meanwhile, Doc is at the prison that formerly held Meteor Man when he gets a a sense of danger and politely bolts the hell out of there. Doc goes ghost and encounters and adorable demon hovering over the city.

Doc goes to confront he cute demon on the astral plane and discovers Val being held prisoner.

Doc quickly dispatches the creatures holding Val and she melts back to the real world. Back in the real world, we start Chapter Three, The Flames of Battle where Johnny repeats his classic of flaming on to break his bonds. He saw Val disappear and wants a bit of revenge. However, when he flies of the altar, Val has magically returned.

Jeremiah and Human Torch engage. During the battle, his followers start to wake up out of their trance and Johnny figures out that the ersatz Messiah is feeding off his followers. The battle continues and Jeremiah starts to get the upper hand when Doc arrives. Doc reveals that Jeremiah is a mutant who can drain the mental energies of other humans. Faux-Messiah is insulted at this suggestion and attacks Doc. Doc gives his best ho-hum look and Jeremiah goes away.

The followers disperse and we find out what happened to Jeremiah.

Well, we found Val, but still have no idea what happened to Spidey. Don't worry, he's back for the next issue. This story seems to be a commentary on all the new age religions and televangelists that had started to pop up all over the place. Doc's barely a guest star and serves to bring the Torch into the plot where he does most of the heavy lifting. The religious commentary on the cult-like following many religious leaders manage to develop and the evil they do behind the scenes is far more interesting than the actual plot. The yellow demon was really cute, though.

[justin-hammers]

What y'all think? 👀🍟🍔😂

[ebbarights]

crying so hard conway and moran are literally friends

[ljones41]

Top Five Favorite Episodes of "BABYLON 5" (Season Three: "Point of No Return")

Below is a list of my top five (5) favorite episodes from Season Three (1995-1996) of "BABYLON 5". Created by J. Michael Straczynski, the series starred Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle and Mira Furlan:

TOP FIVE FAVORITE EPISODES OF "BABYLON 5" (SEASON THREE: "POINT OF NO RETURN")

1. (3.10) "Severed Dreams" - In this outstanding episode, President Clark of Earth Alliance tries to seize control of Babylon 5 by force, forcing station commander Captain John J. Sheridan and the command crew to take arms against their own government and initiating the Earth Civil War. The episode won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1997.

2. (3.15) "Interludes and Examinations" - Captain Sheridan struggles to gather a force against the Shadows, when the Shadow War begins in earnest. Ambassador Londo Mollari looks forward to a reunion with a past lover, and Dr. Franklin falls further into his stims addiction.

3. (3.09) "Point of No Return" - When President Clark declares martial law throughout Earth Alliance, the command crew tries to stop Nightwatch from taking control of the station. Meanwhile, Ambassador Londo Mollari receives a prophecy from Emperor Turhan's widow when she visits the station.

4. (3.16-3.17) "War Without End" - This is a two-part episode in which the station's former commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, returns to participate in a mission vital to the future survival of Babylon 5 - traveling back in time to steal Babylon 4 and send it to the past.

5. (3.05) "Voices of Authority" - Commander Susan Ivanova and Ranger Marcus Cole search for more of the First Ones with the help of Draal, while Sheridan comes under the scrutiny of the Nightwatch and Babylon 5's new "political officer".

[therealmrpositive]

In today's review I gather rifles at dawn. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2003, Civil War drama, Gods and Generals #StephenLang #JeffDaniels #RobertDuvall #KevinConway #CThomasHowell #MiraSorvino #BruceBoxleitner #JeremyLondon #BrianMallon #BillyCampbell #PatrickGorman #BoBrinkman

[ianchisnall]

Bishops speak at the King’s Charles III Speech on Friday

Sarah Mullally the Bishop of London, Steve Croft the Bishop of Oxford and Stephen Conway the Bishop of Lincoln spoke on Friday. Their contribution is below and the words from all the other speakers. Bishop of London My Lords, it is an honour to respond to the gracious Speech. I welcome the Minister as she joins us in this House at the Dispatch Box. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly,…

[kwebtv]

Who Killed Holly Howard

Season 1 Episode 1 of “Burke's Law”  -  ABC  -  September 20, 1963

Guest Stars:

Elizabeth Allen as Sophia

William Bendix as Fred Hopke

Bruce Cabot as Thomas Mathewson

Rod Cameron as Harry Joe Murdock

Fred Clark as “Mac” McNulty

Jay C. Flippen as Bill (Desk Sergeant)

Sir Cedric Hardwicke as John Busch

Stephen McNally as Ed Nickerson

Suzy Parker as Bridget Jenkins

ZaSu Pitts as Mrs. Bowie (her last on screen appearance)

Will Rogers Jr. as Vaughn Moore

Barry Kelley as Lt. Joe Nolan

Michael Fox as Coroner (George McCleod)

Buddy Lewis as Cab Driver

Kathy Kersh as Candy

The series established the practice of having groups of stars serving as suspects in each episode’s murder.  These were listed as “Special Guest Stars”.  Many of them would appear in multiple episodes as different characters,  

[castalyne]

I'm going to have to wiggle a tiny Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy/Robocop in here.

Joel Kinnaman as Stephen Holder in The Killing, Will Conway in House of Cards and Ed Baldwin in For all Mankind.

[icarusbetide]

connection between wartime administration & federalist-lean?

There's an argument that wartime service and experiencing Congress' failures firsthand as Washington's aide de camp pushed Hamilton further into the ideals that would later be seen as Federalist: a national instead of state outlook, a permanent military power, and a strong, efficient government.

I was wondering if that argument can be applied on a broader scale: is there an overall connection between revolutionary wartime administration and federalist-leaning political beliefs?

I'm by no means qualified but for my own curiosity's sake, I tried to find the political inclinations of former leaders in the war as well as members of Washington's family, who arguably should have seen the same inefficiencies as Hamilton.

Major Generals:

Washington: Tried very hard to be nonpartisan, but pretty federalist when all's said and done. Especially in 2nd term as president and in last years of life Horatio Gates: Supported Jefferson's presidency, so assuming he was leaning Democratic-Republican? Henry Knox: Federalist Philip Schuyler: Federalist William Alexander, Lord Stirling: Not sure John Sullivan: Federalist, led drive in New Hampshire for Constitution's ratification Thomas Mifflin: Federalist according to Wikipedia (was also aide to GW from June to August 1775) Arthur St. Clair: Federalist. Governor of Northwest Territory, removed by Jefferson in 1802 due to political party differences. Benjamin Lincoln: Federalist, strong policies and presence in Massachusetts Thomas Conway: Unreliable source says Federalist William Moultrie: Some sites say Federalist but he had falling out with Washington because of his pro-French actions towards Genet. Possibly nonpartisan.

Washington's family (Aides, Culper, Life Guard. If they died before we can quantify as "Federalist", then not included):

Note: I tried to include length of service and timeline, arguably important (there during Valley Forge or good period?), but it's difficult in consideration of leave and such. Used Wikipedia's dates.

Edmund Randolph (August - November 75): Wiki says Federalist but I know enough about him that he was often the swinging vote in Washington's cabinet, and that he didn't sign the Constitution because he thought it too strong. Tench Tilghman (August 76 - June 80 | June 80 - Nov 83): Died in 1786. I shouldn't include him but raise a glass for our hardworking Tilghman. Robert Harrison (Nov 75 - May 76 | Military Sec May 76 - 81): Died in 1790. Wikipedia says Federalist. John Fitzgerald (Nov 76 - July 78): Couldn't find John Walker (Feb - March 77): Unreliable source says Federalist Samuel Blachley Webb (June 76 - Jan 77): Couldn't find William Grayson (Assistant Sec. July - August 76 | Aide August 76 - Jan 77): Leader of Anti-Federalist faction with Mason, Monroe, etc. died in 1790 Alexander Contee Hanson Sr. (Assistant Sec. June - Sep 76): Federalist according to Wiki Alexander Hamilton (March 77 - April 81): Is this even a question? Stephen Moylan (March 76 - June 76 | Sept. 76 - Jan 77): "Firm Federalist" according to Founders Online James McHenry (May 78 - August 80): Federalist, GW's Secretary of War in 2nd term when cabinet members were much more partisan. Richard Kidder Meade (March 77 - November 80): Couldn't find. I know that he was very close with Hamilton, which makes me think it possible that their politics had some similarities? But entirely speculation. Hodijah Baylies (May 82 - Dec 83): Federalist. According to Founders Online, Gallatin was advised against Baylies because he was a "decided and we believe a sentimental federalist”. David Cobb (June 81 - Jan 83 | June 83 - Dec 83): Wiki says Federalist Peregrine Fitzhugh (July 81 - Oct 81): Not sure if same Peregrine Fitzhugh, but in a letter to Jefferson in 1807, said: "It is true I have been called a Federalist, and feel a pride in being so: but my Federalism is firmed in those principles which dictated the correct and memorable declaration that we were all Federalists all republicans" William Stephens Smith (July 81 - June 82): Federalist (member of Congress as Federalist in 1812) David Humphreys (June 80 - Dec 83): Federalist. He was part of the Hartford Wits and wrote the poem The Anarchiad. "In 1802, Thomas Jefferson...decided to replace Humphreys...Historians speculate that Humphreys's closeness to the Federalist Party motivated Jefferson’s decisions." from Mt. Vernon Richard Varick (Aide & Priv Sec May 81 - Dec 83): Apparently Federalist and later mayor of New York Benjamin Walker (Jan 82 - Dec 83): Federalist, elected to Congress as Federalist

Caleb Gibbs (May 76 - Dec 80): Couldn't find Nathaniel Sackett: Couldn't find Benjamin Tallmadge (1778 - 1783): Federalist, part of minority in Congress during Jefferson & Madison administrations

Other aides who might've had administrative work, although I'm not sure:

Aaron Burr: Very short run with Washington, and Israel Putnam's aide. Technically Democratic-Republican, but some historians have noted his politics did not always align with a party.

James Monroe: Aide to Stirling, Republican-Democratic

Concerns:

First concern: I'm not sure if the other major generals' aides would see as much administrative work directly with Congress as Washington's aides. I'm under the impression that other generals would report to Washington, than Congress, but I'm not sure.

Second concern: I also want to add that other factors would have most definitely played a role, such as familial and economic interests, which may or may not have been influenced by the war. Still, I thought it would be an interesting exercise.

Third concern: A lot of this is very shallow research as I did not have the time or energy to really dig into all of them. Please let me know if there is any inaccurate information (even Federalist or Democratic Republican is a very broad term and I'm sure their beliefs varied).

Please let me know if you see any inaccurate information, or anyone/some branch I did not consider!

[brokehorrorfan]

I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD together on October 8 via The Criterion Collection. Katherine Lam designed the cover art for Val Lewton productions.

1943's I Walked with a Zombie is directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) and written by Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man) and Ardel Wray. James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway star.

1943's The Seventh Victim is directed by Mark Robson (Earthquake) and written by DeWitt Bodeen (Cat People) and Charles O'Neal. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, and Kim Hunter star.

Both films have been newly restored in 4K with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

I Walked with a Zombie audio commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

The Seventh Victim audio commentary by film historian Steve Haberman

Interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith

Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast The Secret History of Hollywood

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy - 2005 documentary on producer Val Lewton featuring William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, Robert Wise, Neil Gaiman, and more

Trailers

Booklet with essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.

[doctorstrangereview]

0147: Giant-Size Defenders #5

Cover Date: July 1975 On-Sale Date: April 22, 1975

In this final installment of Giant-Size Defenders, we get superheroes from the future and a mutated eel for a villain. We're even introduced to an alternate time-line version of one of the Guardians and he's a big guy. Lots going on here.

Our story begins as three "less affable" gentlemen await a local shop owner to close up his business. The grandfatherly type, complete with round specs, a bushy mustache and a bowtie completes locking up his store and is promptly chased by the "less affable" types who pull him into an alley and then pull a switchblade on him.

Meanwhile, up in the air, we find Doc, Valkyrie and Hulk flying toward an assignation. Hulk, rather than his usual jumping of the era, is getting a lift courtesy of Doc's All-Purpose Amulet. Doc mentions something about a disturbance in the flow of time that could hurl the world into limbo. In a startling coincidence a nearby cruise liner is heading toward a big glowing spot in the ocean.

As soon as the ship hits the glowing spot, the passengers get an unexpected freebee and are suddenly knee deep in dead fish. What a ride!

The airborne Defenders marvel at the convenience of being so close to the action. Val and Hulk start bailing the fish out of the boat while Doc manages to get grabbed by something under the water.

This is our introduction to Eelar!

Don thought this was momentous enough to warrant an entire page and show us that Val wasn't keeping track of her teammates by not realizing Doc disappeared right away.

Looking back into the alley and the "less affable" types, they are roughing up the adorable old dude. Suddenly a very large man shows up. One of the roughs manages to slip his switchblade into grandpa. This angers the large man who we haven't actually seen yet. He proceeds to kick their asses and we finally see him. This is Charlie-27 and he's wearing some very colorful bondage gear.

Charliefinds injured grandpa and carries him to a local hospital. His thoughts reveal that he considers this era of Earth "pre-civilized."

Returning to the fishy ocean liner, Val rescues Doc and Eelar flies away broadcasting ominous telepathic thoughts about attacking all the cities. New York being the closest is presumed to be the first.

Changing the scene to Upstate New York we look in on Nighthawk who is all brooding about the events of the most recent issue. Feeling betrayed by his closest underling, he burns up some page real estate by rehashing these events. As the flashback ends, Nighthawk sees a strange craft flying out of the sky and crashing somewhere. As he flies to check for survivors, nearby onlookers see the giant bird flying through the air and think we're being invaded.

Our next change of scene takes us to the mouth of one of the New York City tunnels. The captions call this the "Hudson Tunnel" but there's no such thing. I guess this is one of the time suspension of disbelief comes into play. Or perhaps PATH wasn't happy with them using a real tunnel's name. A pair of tollbooth operators are being jerks with their weapons when they notice that the cars in the tunnels are being abandoned and people are running out on foot.

The tunnel is now knee deep in dead fish and one of the jerk tollbooth operators seems frozen in his tracks while his buddy abandons him. Looks like Eelar has arrived! So too have the Defenders. The Hulk uses one of the cars like a stress ball to crush it up and keep the tunnel from collapsing. Hulk tells us he knows how to plug up a hole!

Now they can get to the real problem of rescuing that frozen tollbooth operator jerk!

Back to Saugerties, where Nighthawk was trying to check for survivors of the funny-looking plane crash, a boy runs into his house to tell his folks about the UFO. They think he's lying and send him to his room instead of spanking him. Yeah, being a kid in the 70s could really suck sometimes! But we'll eventually find out this is a special little boy. Just you wait.

Little boy ain't having it! He sneaks out and heads to the crash site. He arrives before everyone except Nighthawk who surveys the scene. Someone named the vessel "Captain America." Took me a minute to realize that it wasn't Cap's ship.

The ship's occupants then disembark.

These are the 31st century Guardians of the Galaxy before Chris Pratt turned the name into a joke. Now we know where Doc's temporal displacement vibrations came from.

Returning to New York City (wow, there are a lot of scene changes in this issue) Eelar is attacking Times Square while telepathically broadcasting more ominous thoughts.

While Eelar is causing insurance companies endless nightmares, Charlie-27 has just completed dropping off grandpa at the hospital and isn't having a great time of it. Yes, Charlie's clothing isn't helping matters as he should probably look more in place around Doc's Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village.

As the giant bondage boy attempts to lose himself in a crown, the Defenders are finally facing off against Eelar. Hulk jumps on Eelar taking him down for a moment. Eelar then attacks Val's horse Aragorn and Val isn't too pleased. But Eelar then takes her out with an electrical discharge. Hulk then gets burned by his discharge and even Doc's spell won't work against him.

Charlie "Bondage Boy" 27 watches this go down and is impressed by Doc's power but realizes that all their efforts won't do any good. He thinks the telepathic speeches sound familiar as well. Meanwhile the Guardians contemplate getting themselves in and out of danger while Nighthawk makes a double entendre.

Vance, Yondu and Nighthawk get beamed into danger while "Crystal Guy" Martinex encounters our special little boy who has found the ship.

The three wind up in the midst of the Defenders battle with Eelar. Vance thinks they're in the middle of a riot and that Martinex got the coordinates wrong when Charlie calls out for them. The crowd parts for big bondage boy so he can make his way over to his buddies. Eelar flies away at the stranger danger. Hulk flies after him and Doc orders Val and Nighthawk to follow the Hulk. Doc attempts to address the Guardians, but they've disappeared. Doc has figured out the Guardians are the source of the temporal shenanigans and Eelar is a separate problem altogether.

The Guardians have tracked down a device that looks like a quilted helmet they believe is the answer to all their problems. Charlie tries it on but it's blank. Doc has flown to the glowing spot in the ocean that has been dumping dead fish all over the place and manages to dredge up another quilted helmet.

The rest of the Defenders are in Central Park watching Eelar beat up some of the local flora. Doc arrives and tells everyone gathered that the helmet created Eelar. He probes Eelar's mind to find out that Eelar doesn't actually have one.

The helmet served as a nest for some eels and one got programmed by it with lots of Badoon propaganda. (The Badoon are a race of lizard people who conquer the solar system in the future.) Eelar has recovered and is attacking Nighthawk. Yondu, Doc and Vance subdue the slippery beast using a combination of their powers.

This cancels out Eelar's electrical field allowing everyone else to beat the crap out of him. Doc then restores Eelar to his true form.

Everyone meets up at Doc's Sanctum where they catch up on future events. We haven't forgotten about our faceted and fascinating Martinex. He's still with our special boy who reveals his identity at last!

Oh wow! This is such a long story and I have so little to say about it. It's utterly ridiculous, even for a Defenders story. Alien device makes a harmless dumb animal into a menace is hardly new ground and it seems just a way to shoehorn the Guardians of the Galaxy into the plot and get them on the cover. It's all about sales after all. Don Heck's art is serviceable, but not spectacular. I don't know enough about the 31st century Guardians to determine if they're reasonably portrayed, but everyone seems to take a back seat to this ridiculous plot. Thankfully this is the final Giant-Size Defenders and there are no more bloated stories like this. Yes, the Defenders will have double-size issues here and there, but they'll work much better than this mess.