Farewell to the Fixer

[flint_marko]

The Thunderbolts are traveling through time and trying to get back to the present. They land in the recent past and meet the original team.

Six pages from #173...














And four pages from #174.

The young Fixer's death creates a time paradox that starts to destroy reality, and the older Fixer decides to fix it by taking his place (Ghost is the narrator here, trying to send a message back to Luke Cage). 







Moonstone asks Fixer if he's really okay with this.

Comments

[thanekos]

I love that last panel; it's very " freeze-frame, laugh track ".

Contrasts with the narration/new title nicely, too (I love how the latter means that Songbird is technically an Avenger for some value of the term).

[icon_uk]

We knew Melissa was destined to be an Avenger from the events of "Avengers Forever" where a future Songbird was a respected member in good standing.

[sinisterlink]

I've never read much of Thunderbolts and have only a vague idea who most of these people are/what is going on. But even if I did have any idea what was going on, I'd still be too busy being distracted by Ghost in a party hat. Hee.

[icon_uk]

This is interesting, though I do feel that this sort of flies in the face of the Fixer/Techno from the first incarnation of Thunderbirds. He was pretty much completely uninterested in life, and in having "a good time", to the extent that he saw transforming into a machine as being a step UP.

[dewinged]

Comic writers have been forgetting that the Thunderbolts existed before Civil War all the time. Why should this be any different?

[maseiken]

I've had a soft-spot for The Fixer, ever since his Cameo in Cable/Deadpool. Nice to see him around every now and then. Also a nice boot in the pants to pick up Thunderbolts already!

[lascoden]

Well, Dark Avengers, now.

[maseiken]

I can't help but be put off by a series that feels the need to append "Dark" to it's title.

[salinea]

I feel the same way about "Avengers".

[maseiken]

Point, but some of that Goodwill was regained by the Academy.