THUNDERBOLTS #127
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Size: pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Curiously Marvel’s Thunderbolts and DC’s Batman & the Outsiders are in similar circumstances this week. In a weird case of synchronicity, both team books have been shaken up pretty good by plotlines well outside the control of the main title. In the case of the Thunderbolts, leader Harry Osbourne has become a hero in Secret Invasion and it looks like several Thunderbolts team members are headed to the Dark Avengers. Batman is RIP after events in his own book leaving Batman and the Outsiders without their titular leader.
Harry Osbourne, leader of the Thunderbolts, is moving on to bigger and better things in the wake of Secret Invasion and that means cleaning house in the old headquarters. Right at the top of the list of things that need to be sanitized is Songbird, the last remaining Thunderbolt with any kind of morals, while the villains, Bullseye, Venom, and Moonstone, move on to better a better class of super-team (Dark Avengers anybody?).
I have to admit that writer Andy Diggle is a favorite of mine. His Adam Strange mini-series kept me interested for eight issues in a character whose sole super-power was a flying backpack He also respects continuity, building on previous material, without resorting to the reset button to get some mileage out of existing characters.
Diggle stays true to form on the Thunderbolts. Bullseye and Venom are pleasantly creepy, Moonstone refined and manipulative, and Songbird (as the sole heroine) alone, hunted, but determined (think Ripley at the end of Aliens). The dialogue is clever and, while the plot isn’t complicated -- chase the good guy -- it is a satisfying dénouement to this version of the Thunderbolts. Post Secret Invasion, it did feel like this version of the team has run to its course to a logical conclusion. So I’m glad the cast is moving on: the bad guys to bigger and better things and good gal Songbird into hiding.
The Swordsman also makes an appearance in this issue, eliciting more interest in the character than his death scene did in Dark Reign. At least Thunderbolt readers will know who the Swordsman is and his actions, in saving Songbird, at least create a little empathy for the character before Osbourne sends him out a window. I guess Thunderbolts 127 precedes the the Dark Reign one shot.
(Or Swordsman’s a skrull.)
(Hey … it worked for Mockingbird).
Anyhow, judging from the previews, issue #128 brings us a new team of Thunderbolts (now with added irredeemable ant-man … yahoo!). With Diggle scripting, I’m looking forward to the new direction and intrigued how the-powers-that-be at Marvel are hanging on to this book when it could have very easily been a casualty of either Secret Invasion of Civil War.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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