Before the DCnU reared its head in our lives, the adventures of The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves were some of our favorites. Featuring reinvigorated new-reader friendly versions of old Tower Comics characters that were acquired by DC Comics, each issue saw Nick Spencer re-introducing these old heroes for a new generation of readers, keeping them in their own corner of the DCU, related to the grand picture by name only. The first three issues of the book earned increasingly higher ratings at this site, and the book is the only DC title to ever end up with a Multiversity pull quote on the cover.
If it’s not clear, let me spell it out quite plainly: we love THUNDER Agents.
This week sees the return of the THUNDER Agents in the form of a five-issue mini, and we couldn’t be more excited for it. The two arcs we got in the first volume were great and contained a rotating art team, featuring CAFU and Bit (the current art team of DC’s Grifter book), Chriscross, Howard Chaykin, George Perez, Ryan Sook, Dan Panosian, Nick Dragotta and Mike Grell, with covers by Frank Quitely, Darwyn Cooke, Gary Frank, Chris Sprouse, Ethan Van Sciver, Francis Manapul, John Cassaday and Fiona Staples. With our new volume, we have issues illustrated by Wes Craig, Jerry Ordway, Walter Simonson and Sam Kieth, with covers by Andy Kubert, Frazer Irving, Dustin Nguyen and Rafael Alubquerque, with one art team yet to be revealed. What more could you want?
If the new volume is half as new reader friendly as the first, then there’s no reason not to check out this week’s issue. THUNDER Agents v2 #1 is in stores tomorrow, with art by Wes Craig and a cover by Andy Kubert. The trade collection of the first ten-issue series will be in stores as well (which you can pre-order here on Amazon if you are so inclined). Check after the cut for a five-page preview.
