FREE THUNDERBOLTS: JUSTICE, LIKE LIGHTNING PDF Jeff Parker,Kev Walker | 136 pages | 19 Sep 2012 | Marvel Comics | 9780785161714 | English | New York, United States Thunderbolts Justice Like Lightning TPB ( Marvel) comic books I realize that Like Lightning was mostly continuing Thunderbolts: Justice series in the same vein that Busiek started, but I'm not sure Like Lightning you can write a Thunderbolts retrospective that completely ignores Fabian Nicieza, who wrote about one third of all Thunderbolts comics. But for the most part, I like a lot of what Nicieza did in the series from what I've seen. Unfortunately, certain trades are harder to track than others. But I may go back to through in his contributions just to be sure. Thanks for the reminder! Blog's back, I guess. So why not show off with an overview of a comic book team I am and remain to be a huge fan of: the Thunderbolts! In the mid to late 90s, Marvel was in a bad place. There are hundreds of videos and blogs that discuss this Like Lightning further Like Lightning and why but long story short, the company was going bankrupt and creatively they were in a really bad place. After an event involving the Avengers fighting the monster Onslaught, they disappeared probably a good thing considering their book was not doing well and were out of the public eye on their world, but really on a Like Lightning world because comics. But debuting in the Avengers' place on Earth were a team called the Thunderbolts. This team has Like Lightning quite a run in the comics world, with different creative teams and different ideas to explore the team. Here I plan to do an overview of their most well-known runs of the story and where they are now. For this overview, I will just go over their most well-known and prominent runs, though I may have to skip a few eras that were left in the dust. As Thunderbolts: Justice, I will discuss my thoughts Thunderbolts: Justice criticisms of said runs, whether Like Lightning are good, bad or had ideas that never went anywhere. I will try to provide as best a summary of the stories I can, but some of these go on for years so sorry if I skip over a few things. The Beginning: Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley First, the is the debut issue of the Thunderbolts comic, though the team Like Lightning debut earlier in another comic, but not too much on that. The team appeared almost out of nowhere, saving the day from supervillains and gaining the public's eye. But what the adoring public do not know is that Thunderbolts: Justice team of heroes are really supervillains! As this line-up, Baron Zemo brought them together to masquerade as heroes to gain the public and government's trust so they could acquire their secrets and such to conquer the world. Keep in mind that at the time, the Avengers and Fantastic 4 were presumed Like Lightning, so a vacuum was left for the Thunderbolts to take advantage Like Lightning. And here is the image that showed readers that shocking plot twist: Keep in mind, this was in the late 90s. No internet or anything to spoil this shocking moment, just Thunderbolts: Justice turning the page to discover these new heroes were familiar villains! For the first little while, the team would act like heroes in public, then return to base and return to their former selves when back in private. However, as the team continued their roles as heroes, a good number of them discovered they liked being heroes. The act of doing good was growing on them. As well, there were fun stories where they crossed over with other heroes with interesting results, such as when Spider-man was Thunderbolts: Justice of a crime he didn't do. In this situation, MACH-1 wanted to take Spider-man Like Lightning, as he crossed paths with the webslinger under the Beetle identity, but he was aware that Spider-man was innocent. In the end, he chose to help Spider-man and became better for it. Later in the series, a young Asian American teenage who was experimented Thunderbolts: Justice by a supervillain would join the Thunderbolts under the name Jolt because she had electric powers. With this new addition that didn't know the Thunderbolts were villains, the team was forced to further continue their charade even out Like Lightning the public eye. As the series progressed, they would team-up with other heroes and even meet-up with the returning Avengers. But as people would dread, this would not last. Baron Zemo outed the team as supervillains, forcing them to return to Zemo's side as the heroes won't take them in anymore and the villain community would reject them entirely for their role as superheroes. But Zemo would regret that decision as the team would turn on him, choosing to remain in the roles of heroes, no matter what anyone else thinks, continuing their paths for redemption and heroism. In this following run, the team would be taken over and led by Hawkeye, Thunderbolts: Justice Avenger who once walked a path of villainy, though this was way back when. This is a good move, as Hawkeye knows what it's like Like Lightning be treated as a criminal and understands the long path to redemption. Now a quick overview on the Like Lightning. First, one Thunderbolts: Justice my favourite characters: Songbird! Thunderbolts: Justice Screaming Mimi, a pretty minor, D-list villain in the Marvel Universe, Songbird aka Melissa Gold started off as a shy, Like Lightning member of the team, though her Screaming Mimi persona was known to be very Like Lightning and unkind. Songbird's character throughout her fictional history has one of the most complex arcs I've seen in a character. She starts off as shy, timid and not very vocal, despite the fact her powers come from her voice, and then grows to be a confident, kind-hearted, outspoken leader of the Thunderbolts and later an incarnation of the Avengers. I'm generally surprised no one at Marvel are making a bigger push on the character consider the potential she has alone, whether making her a more permanent Avengers member, a new Thunderbolts book with her, or even giving her a solo title, but hey, it happens. Citizen V aka Baron Zemo is your average villain in a disguise character, but here it's done so well that you just can't help but enjoy yourself. He plays Like Lightning V like a super noble Captain America, Thunderbolts: Justice makes sense consider that he wears the American flag on himself, which is the point since he has to gain the public's trust then he's back to villain and the switch is awesome. Moonstone is scheming, selfish and untrusting, making her a great foil against the more innocent and kindhearted Songbird. Plus, you've got Atlas and Fixer, who have differing degrees of loyalty to Baron Zemo as well as different inner struggles of being a hero or a villain. Finally, there's Jolt, a super fan of Thunderbolts: Justice who you Like Lightning want Like Lightning see hurt, so when she discovers they're villains, it's heart-wrenching for her as it is for the reader. This Thunderbolts: Justice would lead to the team starting to become a reform squad for villains, with characters leaving and new characters joining throughout. Busiek and Bagley would leave at this time, especially since Busiek would write Avengers Like Lightning Bagley would eventually team with Brian Michael Bendis for Ultimate Spider-man. The team would be part of major events and crossovers through tie-ins and occasional appearances in other Like Lightning, but the team would change in the next Like Lightning run. Thunderbolts: Justice a comment here pointed out that he was also a massive part of the team, so from what I have read I will add what I can. First, he continued with Hawkeye's leadership on the team, but also this was a big character exploration First, there is of course Songbird and all of her character development from that timid, dependent girl to Thunderbolts: Justice back to Thunderbolts: Justice Screaming Mimi persona to finally Songbird the leader! She would eventually lead the team, which would Thunderbolts: Justice in size and even grow to include Doctor Octopus and other minor villains. Also, there was Baron Zemo who Like Lightning the team to find redemption of his own. Sure, there is the story of Songbird getting close to him just so she can kill him, which that is a story I'm looking for, but it is interesting to see Zemo attempt to atone for his past evil deeds Yeah, unfortunately, like all heroes and villains in comics getting passed from writer to writer, Zemo would fall back to more villainous ways. Not saying that's a bad thing but it is interesting to see Zemo attempt some kind of redemption, even if he may or may not deserve it. Eventually, I'll find some good trades of the book then be able to go more in depth of each. Plus in Civil War, Zemo was playing both sides of the war. That's a Zemo thing he would do. But in the aftermath of Civil War, the team would change This book is a result of Marvel's status quo being changed from the event Civil War in The Pro-registration Act forces heroes that have not revealed their identities to the government on the run, and who better to stop Like Lightning than the Thunderbolts.