This is a good tonic for anyone starting to get nostalgic for 80s comics - it's pretty bad. For one thing, I remember The New Defenders being darker - more in line with the moody Sienkiewicz cover. But the inside of this was all primary-coloured elves. Weird. I guess it's interesting that the New Defenders must have been targeting a slightly older audience that had warm memories of the older X-Men, perhaps in the same way that the Defenders once targeted people who liked an earlier Marvel era where the Silver Surfer and Dr Strange were the cool cats, Daddy-o. ( )