Where does Colleen come from? Who are her parents? Why does the earliest time period go last in this book, when we know how it's going to come out for all characters involved? These are all questions I wish I cared about. The third chapter of Nick Spencer's recent Thunder Agents is an issue that features three separate stories that have all overstayed their welcome. The cover's promise of a dead Dynamo is featured in the first sequence, set in the 80s, and is narrated by a letter to the mass-murdering woman Len-as-Dynamo loves. (Her name is Iron Maiden or something, she appears on 1 page in this sequence.) He requests that she raise their daughter well and make his sacrifice worthwhile. I can appreciate the irony of the following sequence in which Colleen fights her mother for several, silent, well-drawn pages. But by the time I reached the end's underwhelming reveal (if one can call it that) I had lost interest in the characters. Why not start off with that shot after a page or two of fighting and keep the plot rolling? The simple thunder symbol that demarcates the end of a Thunder Agents issue used to inspire me with fulfillment, impatience and awe. Now I used it as the bell of an egg timer. I can microwave leftovers in 1.6 bored reads of an issue now. Nick Spencer is wasting our time, his last thumb of the nose at DC before he flees to Marvel entirely. Skip this unless you have a special appetite for the art: Dan Panosian's wonderful, sketchy style or Mike Grell's pitch-perfect 80s nostalgia. I'm sure you could pick it up at your LCS and flip through it and absorb everything plot-wise before the counter guy or gal even looks up from the new issue of Locke & Key which you SHOULD have picked up.