Welcome to the I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You Halloween Countdown of Weird Shit!
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A few days ago, I did a post about a comic book that featured a strange and relentless serial killer, the Elf With a Gun.
However, the armed and homicidal little person wasn't the only oddity roaming around Steve Gerber's tenure as writer of Marvel's Defenders.
Roaming the hallowed halls of the Sanctum Santorium of Stephen Strange is....
....a deer.
But not just any deer.
No, it is.... A DEER OF EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back in Defenders #31, the Hulk rescued a fawn left behind after hunters killed the fawn's mother.
Not knowing what to do with the fawn, the Hulk took the baby deer to Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange looks at the fawn and sighs, "I used to be somebody. Now green hued behemoths are bringing me baby deer to take care of."
Meanwhile, Chandu of the Headmen has plans for the Defenders!
Oh shit, I have to explain the Headmen now?
OK, the Headmen were these weird mad scientists types overcome with the evils. Their unifying shtick was they all had heads that didn't match their bodies. There was the scientist with the human head on the gorilla body, for example.
Chandu fancied himself as a sorcerer on par with Dr. Strange but he wasn't. Intending to zap himself into the body of Defenders leader Nighthawk, he wound up zapping himself into....
Wait for it.
Why am I saying "wait for it"? We all know where this is going, right?
Wait for it....
Oh this is so stupid. Chandu zaps himself into the Hulk's deer!
Well, this ticks Chandu off. Deer's can't talk so Chandu can't say any spells.
Any spells that call for dramatic hand waving?
Deers don't got no hands!
Chandu is so fucked!
With Chandu inside of him, this deer is EVIL and ANGRY and fully prepared to reign down vengeance upon the Defenders.
Lo, if only Chandu could but work a door knob.
Alas, the travails of Chandu stuck inside of a deer went on for about a half dozen issues.
This deer is angry and evil.
BEWARE THE DEER!!!!
BEWARE THE DEER!!!!
BEWARE THE DEER!!!!
BEWARE THE DEER!!!!
Special thanks the great comics blog Gone & Forgotten for the source material for this post.
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