DEFENDERS #25: The Sons of the Serpent backer is... Pennyworth!

[starwolf_oakley]

The lead up to DEFENDERS #25 had the Defenders (and guest star Luke Cage) battling the Sons of the Serpent, Marvel's go-to white supremacist group. Nighthawk has found out who has secretly been funding the group.



Six and 1/2 pages of 22 page story.



"Hey, this office looks familiar... oh, darn."



What a way to reveal your secret identity to your teammates.



So, the guy funding the white powers group is... wait, what?



...Wait, what?
Wasn't there something similar to this in GREEN ARROW #125-126 when Connor Hawke was the main character?



Uh... Why is *Daredevil* surprised?



Some extra info. J.C. Pennyworth was originally in DEFENDERS #15 in a story written by Len Wein. Wein would create Lucius Fox, who is similar to Pennyworth aside than embezzling money from his boss to run a white supremacist organization, in BATMAN #307 a few years later.

There is a two-page spread of the Defenders fighting the Sons of the Serpent. It is a very one-sided fight. Then...





Suggested tags:
char: daredevil/matt murdock, char: nighthawk/kyle richmond, char: power man/luke cage
char: hulk/bruce banner, char: son of satan/damion hellstrom, char: Valkyrie/barbara norris, char: yellowjacket/hank pym, creator: steve gerber, creator: sal bucema
title: defenders

Comments

[cricharddavies]

And there are Oreos that have chocolate flavored filling. The whole thing is stupid, so if you're actually expecting reason and consistency from it, you're nuts.

[psychopathicus_rex]

While you have a point, of course, comparing Oreos to apples doesn't really work. True, there are a million different varieties of Oreos nowadays, but there is one single variety that everyone automatically THINKS of when they think of an Oreo, and that's the variety with the white filling. That was the original, and all the other types are variations of it. (There's even a song about it - 'The White Stuff'. This is true; I'm not making it up.) Apples, on the other hand, have a great deal of natural color variation, hundreds if not thousands of different varieties, including types that differ from country to country - basically, everybody has a different mental picture of what color an apple is. (Mine is a sort of yellowish color.) So while of COURSE the whole thing is stupid, the 'apples' metaphor strikes me as a good deal stupider than the 'Oreos' one.