The Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense - "The Face Underneath"

[laughing_tree]

That splash page in Avengers #2 where they’re trying to have a meeting to discuss minutes and orders of business and the Hulk is just standing there in his underpants and Thor begs him to put some clothes on and they all just openly hate him -- that’s probably the birth of the Defenders in some ways. The idea that some super-people just don’t fit. So this ended up as a story of four totally different people essentially colliding with each other in a way that briefly looks like a team, if you squint, but it’s not. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[kd_the_movie]

Who is old, one eyed guy in the last panel? By the flow of the speech bubbles its not the vagrant, right?

[beyondthefringe]

That's Doctor Strange.
He had some... stuff happen in his own issue.

There are apparently time travel shenanigans involved.

[starwolf_oakley]

"Never stop making them pay." No Warbound reference?

I wonder what Agamotto thinks about an ordinary human using that.

[cainofdreaming]

I don't think he pays that much attention. I mean, Silver Dagger had one of his amulets for a while.

[scorntx]

Pretty sure Agamotto died a while back, in Bendis' New Avengers.

(Unless he got better.)

[bruinsfan]

I'm fairly certain I've seen the Vishanti invoked since. Perhaps Agamotto got rebooted with the physical Marvel Universe and rejoined Oshtur and Hoggoth? (It was never really explained why he made a heel turn in the first place.)

[scorntx]

Maybe Death didn't want a giant glowing tiger hanging around scratching up her furniture?
(I mean, a regular cat's bad enough. Goodness knows what a magic tiger could do to a sofa...)

[astrakhan42]

Agamotto is a key member of Avengers 1000000 BC so that's probably why he's back/retconned/never died.