Product Description

Venom, lethal protector! The enigmatic Moonstone! Bullseye, the man who never misses! Songbird, mistress of sound! Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man! Swordsman, master of the blade! The mystery man called Penance! And Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin! They're America's newest celebrities, ready to take to the skies at a moment's notice in pursuit of those secret, unregistered superhumans hiding among us! They're All-New, All-Deadly Thunderbolts - making the world a safer place for ordinary people one would-be costumed hero at a time! In the wake of Civil War, Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato present a dark and disturbing take on Marvel's Most Wanted, where the line between hero and villain is difficult to find - if it exists at all! Collects Thunderbolts #110-115, Thunderbolts: Desperate Measures, & Thunderbolts stories from Civil War: Choosing Sides and Civil War: The Initiative.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236871 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Not planetary, but still a must have
I really enjoyed this and i can find very little to complain about. Warren Ellis is perfect for writing this title. I just want more. The Paul Jenkins story at the end is all a bit unneccasary, if anything been placed at the start, but really it's just Marvel bumping the collection (and the price) up. As it stands it works as a great outlook on post civil War Marvel and serves as a good story in its own right.
Recommended.

More excellent superhero fair (well, super-villain) from Warren Ellis
Thunderbolts...what an absurd name for a group of seemingly reformed super-villains. Whoever thought that up should be ashamed of themselves (however, like the Thunderbirds before them, they do operate deep from within a mountain base, with their ship shooting out of it, a la Thunderbird 2!). I would also imagine that the stories that came before this were somewhat cheesy. However, here comes Mr Ellis again, placing his welcome dark spin on everything and giving us a huge dose of rich characterisation to complement the extremely well choreographed fighting action. As with his run on Ultimate Fantastic Four he shows here that he can work well within the standard Marvel universe and bring a fresh and very real flavour to it (and I'm looking forward to his forthcoming run on The Astounding X-Men very much).

The meat in the pudding here is the complex characterisation of these ex-villains and the emphasis of the darkness within them. It makes us believe in super-villains and their motivations as much as one does the altruistic behaviour of most of our superhero chums. I started reading this in a bookshop and was immediately engrossed by the interview between Norman Osborn and the captured villain Bullseye where Bullseye gleefully details the murder of a child and his father that he happened to chance upon when leaving the scene of a successful assassination. Straight away I was seduced by Mr Ellis's dark and delicious dialogue, and it seemed that he was made to give voice to such decadent characters (what that says about his own personality is another thing entirely!). I was smitten and immediately ordered the hardback editions of both volumes 1 and 2.

So, super-villains as they should be written: mean, scheming, nasty, dangerous, deranged and the dark mirror opposites of the superheroes that they have been engaged to bring down, garnering us with some great dialogue, some rich characterisation and some lovely fight scenes, all illustrated beautifully by Mike Deodato's rich artwork. I do recommend this highly.

well written and beautifully drawn.
I read the original run of the thunderbolts and quite enjoyed it, it had an interesting idea and was competant in all areas. sadly it lacked spark, for me it just came off as avengers with a novel twist, and to be honest at the time the avengers wasn't that great.
So years later Warren Ellis gets his dirty paws on it and it is awesome. The Art by mike deodato is excellent and ellis has nailed the characters, well he has actually made characters out of the cliched 2D images we had been used to. Before the thunderbolts were villains posing as heroes, now they are bad guys being forced to be good guys, whilst trying to be bad. It is excellent, the highlight being norman osborne.
Genius.