Thunderbolts #24

[iamrman]

It’s the Masters of Evil, yet again!

Hawkeye tells Citizen V to piss off, because rescuing civilians is the priority.

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[zachbeacon]

Batman returns!

Er, I mean “Citizen V Strikes Back”. The joke totally works if you’ve read the previous issues in their entirety. Probably. I thought it was funny 20+ years ago.

(The joke is – that in a previous issue – Bagley draws the new Citizen V as a shadowy figure that looks suspiciously like Batman.)

I think I’ve hit on why these scans have meant so much to me. These were coming out when getting on the internet was still a chore so I’ve maybe shared some of these thoughts with the one high school friend who read comics and then no one else until just now. Of course, now I have the benefit of hindsight.

Also, I just like the series a lot.


Karla’s frustration that Clint isn’t as stupid as she thought he was is both funny and one of the reasons I think future affections are genuine.

Crimson Cowl complementing Atlas’ intelligence and “I am…the TRUE Citizen V” are both pretty funny if you know about the secret identity shenanigans to come. Can we all collectively treat these two like spoilers even though it’s been almost 25 years?

This was published after the annual so I guess we’re skipping over the Citizen V gender reveal party. I mostly think this is notable because Mattie Franklin was also passing as her male counterpart at around this time.

I read this long before I saw Jaws but the cliffhanger still worked for me.

[scorntx]

Spoilers are sometimes those things that are a little subjective.
Not when it's ones like "The Thunderbolts are actually the Masters of Evil", but ones like who Crimson Cowl actually is might be pretty spoileriffic for those who aren't in the know.
Partly because she's not the biggest name in villains, and also because there's at least one fake-out.
(... err, spoilers?)

[zachbeacon]

Yeah, this era of Thunderbolts has some pretty constant twists and I just feel like some of them need to be preserved to maintain an authentic reading experience.

Granted, things like who the new Scourge is are so out of left field that I don't think it really matters to people just reading Thunderbolts and other things (like half of the next big arc) are so telegraphed that we've all been talking about it for a while.