Comments on: Thunderbolts #131 (Magnum Opus Chapter 4) – Review

By: pozzyfreak

pozzyfreak — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:44:51 +0000

Not a bad thing really, just not the way it should be.

Deadpool as a character works with a darker edge as well, so it baffles me as to why they had to make the Tbolts/Deadpool crossover so silly.

Overally I’d give the crossover a C as a whole because it is quite entertaining…I just can’t go any higher because the idea has loads of untapped potential.

By: Alex Evans

Alex Evans — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:40:36 +0000

totally agreed. Even if you just go back and read, say, Thunderbolts 128-129, it’s a totally different series. It’s as if the comic turned into “Andy Diggle writes Deadpool.”

By: pozzyfreak

pozzyfreak — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:39:40 +0000

I’m all about good fun, especially when it involves a character like Deadpool. However, I’m fairly certain that the crossover did the Thunderbolts no favors. For readers checking Tbolts out because of Deadpool, they are really going to be confused when it goes back to being a gritty, mean, and fairly serious series. For hardcore Tbolts fans who were turned off of the book during the crossover, it’s questionable if they will ever truly embrace the new team after how goofy the characters were left looking.

The whole thing only really worked as a Deadpool story and probably should have stayed within the Deadpool series. When you have a cast of almost total unknowns you can afford to make them look foolish…but you shouldn’t make them look foolish if they eventually have to go back to “regularly scheduled programming” and then proceed to be forced to salvage an already weak (or nonexistent) reputation.

By: Alex Evans

Alex Evans — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:16:18 +0000

I’m a few issues behind on Thunderbolts and not a regular reader of Deadpool, outside of this crossover. I just finished reading Thunderbolts #130 (Magnum Opus part 2), and thus far, I can definite see what you’re talking about with regards to the Thunderbolts looking like a bunch of keystone cops.

I almost feel like this crossover has, so far in my reading and apparently, for you, most of the crossover, made this Thunderbolts team look clumsy and silly, which isn’t good for a team already composed of relative unknowns.

If what you say about the last couple of issues is true, I worry that this crossover is a failure, in that it should’ve been used to promote Way’s Deadpool comic, but also to legitimate Diggle’s Thunderbolts. It seems to have only accomplished the former, and it did so at the expense of the latter. The whole crossover just seems to have temporarily turned Thunderbolts into a Deadpool comic, with the Thunderbolts as supporting characters only there to provide Deadpool with obstacles and ultimately trip over themselves.

It is good fun though.

I’ll finish up reading part four of Magnum Opus now. Couldn’t help commenting, as I just finished reading Thunderbolts 130 and really, really agreed with your outlook regarding the tone of this crossover as a whole.