Diaz and Olazaba have fun with the issue's fun action beats (psychic monkeys take over a zoo, it's great), but Thunderbolts #3 posits that this team is a broken group of people that were assembled for the marketable aesthetics that they have and not their abilities as a group, which is only breaking them further. Read Full Review

Diaz delivers some great art in the issue. The visuals are beautifully detailed, filled with energy and fun.  Read Full Review

This is good, bread and butter superhero comics. We've got a fun team with a unique approach to telling their story, while still being tried and true superhero stuff. Read Full Review

Thunderbolts #3 is a solid story that feels like a repeat of the plot from issues #1 and #2. The issue is well-constructed in its pacing, plotting, dialog, and excellent art, but the series feels like it's not going anywhere. Read Full Review

By #3, the series' Big Problem is clear to me: This is a well-crafted tent without a tentpole.

All of the small stories -- the mission du jour being an embarrassing success, Clint's immaturity and self-doubt, Monica's undercutting assistance, America's power problems, the troubling way Helen runs the team with a PR focus -- are good. But none of them quite get the focus (or quite have the quality) to be the lead story.

It's possible to write a great ensemble series with attention spread evenly across the cast (that was the standout feature of 80s Claremont). But this volume isn't quite clearing the bar.

The guest art is solid; nicely finished and it has a distinctive, mild grotesquerie to it. But it's also a pretty abrupt swerve away from the style Sean Izaakse was just getting established. more