Two months ago this book had me giddy as Andy Diggle, the man who let me love John Constantine, was coming on to write a book languishing before the Secret Invasion started. He started by raiding Air Force One with a black-ops team run by Norman Osborn, and in that issue he had me in love with a book I was about to drop.

Cut to now, and apparently the team that could once feasibly kidnap the leader of the free world can no longer function without making me think of The Thunderbolts in a Benny Hill skit.

This was no way whatsoever to get momentum going on Thunderbolts. In-fact it killed what  little forward motion came out of issues 127-128. Deadpool is not a bad character and at times I can find him quite appealing, but to put in the nuttiest guy in the Marvel universe with a book that was just starting to find footing again was an awful idea. The team itself isn’t even complete based on who’s been appearing on Thunderbolts covers for the last two months.

What really killed this issue for me though was the art. The art is not bad. However, it has NO place being in Thunderbolts. It works for Deadpool. It does not work however for a off the books team of killers and thieves. When I read Thunderbolts, I want grit. In this I got a bumbling cartoon.

Do not read Magnum Opus if you want to check out the Thunderbolts. I’m not dropping the book because I have been on it for too long to let one issue I didn’t care for spoil my experience but this certainly didn’t help the case of holding on to the title for much longer. Let’s hope Diggle can right the ship before he jumps to another book.