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Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt (2019) (Comic Book)
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The 2019 incarnation of Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, a five-issue miniseries written by Kieron Gillen with art by Caspar Wijngaard and published by Dynamite Entertainment, is both an homage to and a comprehensive Deconstruction of the classic comics series Watchmen — or rather, perhaps, of its legacy in the world of comics at large. It's also a functioning superhero comic in its own right, if rather an offbeat one.Warning: The story of this comic is built on a series of reveals and switches of tone; it is impossible to discuss it in any detail without giving some of these away. Hence, multiple unmarked spoilers follow.The story starts with a version of Peter Cannon who should be quite familiar to those who know the character; one of a small but significant number of superheroes in his world, a supreme martial arts expert who gains advanced mystical insights by consulting a collection of "Ancient Scrolls", living with his friend Tabu. His world comes under overwhelming attack by mysterious squid-like aliens, and Cannon is asked for help by other heroes. Despite an initial show of reluctance, explained by his disdain for western civilization (a characteristic drawn from the original '60s version of the character), Cannon consults the Ancient Scrolls, and comes up with an effective strategy that wipes out the aliens. The world, which had been teetering on the verge of nuclear war, comes together in a spirit of cooperation.But Cannon is worried. He suspects that the aliens were fakes. After all, this whole "alien invasion to make the world come together" plot is an idea which he once considered himself, but rejected because, apart from the fact that it's unspeakably immoral, he doubts that it will do any good in the long term. Only one conclusion is possible; an alternate version of Peter Cannon, in an Alternate Universe, must be behind the whole thing. Meanwhile, readers who are familiar with the history of comics, and of characters inspired by the original Thunderbolt, have recognized that the there's some serious genre referencing going on here.That's okay. It's all part of the plan.Cannon knows that he's up against a far more powerful, perhaps omnipotent, version of himself, who is probably already watching him, but his counterpart has already shown a willingness to kill millions, and must be stopped. Fortunately, he can at least work out a way to travel to that other universe. So he and the heroes he works with set out to engage with the problem. It doesn't go well, and a fleeing Cannon ends up in another universe, where there are no superheroes and no apparent way to hold off the fake aliens who follow after him. But there is at least another Peter Cannon...One obvious problem when talking about this series is that three characters share the same name, and two of them also share the same alias. The convention followed by the comic is to refer to the first-appearing character as "Cannon", the second-appearing as "Thunderbolt", and the third as "Peter". This convention is also followed here.(See the character's overview page for tropes common to all versions of Peter Cannon.)Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt (2019) provides examples of the following tropes: | |
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