Comic of the Week: Thunderbolts #137
October 28, 2009It’s ironic that the reason I picked the Thunderbolts title as the Comic of the Week is party because I loved seeing their butts get whooped. Even more ironic, though, is the largest reason is their guests, who practically took the whole damn book over - Iron Fist and Luke “Power Man” Cage.

Written by Rick Remender
Art by Mahmud Asrar, Rebecca Buchman and Bruno Hang
Lemme ask you something. What would a HUGE Iron Fist fan love to see the most? How much would he love to see the original Heroes for HIre back kicking ass together? How awesome would it be to see them back in their classic (well, sort of) costumes again? The answers would be “kick copious amounts of ass”, “a whole bunch” and “astonishingly fucking awesome”. You get all of those things with Thunderbolts #137. All of the awesomeness of Heroes for Hire and almost none of the lameness as the latest Thunderbolt line-up. (Well, almost none. It is still their book.)
As a kid, I would always ask myself and others, much to their eternal annoyance, hypothetical questions about who would win in a fight between Iron Fist and Shang Chi at very random times. Yeah, that’s also where I got the idea for the Comicology face-off came from. This issue answers the age old conundrum of Iron Fist VS Wolverine and Iron Fist VS Bucky Captain America.

A lot of people don’t see Iron Fist as a power player so this issue really gives him his due. Luke Cage, too. Oh, and it’s really good to see him in yellow again. Maybe we can come up with a memorandum that requires Luke Cage be given a yellow shirt every so often.

Yes, Luke. Sweet Christmas. Sweet Christmas, indeed.
I’m not familiar with Mahmud Asrar’s pencils, but the art is strangely appealing, yet it doesn’t always shine. Proportions are sometimes off and faces seem inconsistent; however, the movement seem to jump out of the page and the facial expressions when fighting or getting hurt are top notch. This style fit Iron Fist and Luke’s fighting styles perfectly, and the Thunderbolts were kinda cool, too… I guess.

Thunderbolts #137 is a stand-alone issue, which I seem to prefer for really solid, quick stories. Matt Fraction’s Thor stories are good examples of this. Remender did an awesome, nipple-erecting fast paced job with the first few Punisher issues, and he captured the characters quite perfectly. I don’t know why the quality of Tbolts #137’s writing dipped ever so slightly from Remender’s normally stellar wordsmithing. The clichés were tired and the explanatory dialogue was cheesy and unnecessary.

I give Thunderbolts #137 three out of five Heroes for Hire, mostly for the blinding brilliance that is Iron Fist and Power Man. If the writing had been a tad better, this probably would have scored a smidge higher.

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