Marvel’s new monster is the newest recruit in the Thunderbolts. Marvel recently launched a new volume of Lightning In the aftermath of the reckless event Satan’s Era. With Luke Cage the new mayor of New York City, he reclaimed the Thunderbolts name from ousted Wilson Fisk and filled the team with champions like Hawkeye, America Chavez, Spectrum (Monica Rambeau), Persuasion and Gutsen Glory. They manage to put the evil Thunderbolts behind bars, but their next mission pits them against a strange monster who ends up joining the team.
Warning: spoilers for Thunderbolts #2 follow below. Continue at your own risk!
Lightning #2 Comes from the creative team made up of Jim Zub, Sean Izaakse, Java Tartaglia, and VC’s Joe Sabino. It starts with Clint Barton arriving late at a press conference on Thunderbolts, which Luke Cage has had to deal with in Clint’s absence. After Hawk clumsily answers some press questions, an emergency situation at the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art) leads to the conference ending and the Thunderbolts getting into action. The only members available are Hawkeye, Power Man, Persuasion, and Gutsen Glory, who find a strange creature that amuses a group of friends within the MET.
The beast speaks unintelligible language that makes persuasion stunned when you try to control it. Power Man and Gutsen Glory did no better, leaving America Chavez to clean up the mess. Once the dust settles and the monster is defeated, we know his name is Eegro the Unbreakable, who hails from Monster Isle, home to many of Marvel’s signature monsters. Igro says he traveled to the MET to make sure the museum had an accurate representation of him, even though he didn’t have anything on hand.
Eegro made such a positive and lasting impression on the kids that the Thunderbolts PR contact added him to the team. Hawkeye tries to make a fuss, but he’s only the field commander of the Thunderbolts. He also had no say when the other members were originally announced. Additionally, Hawkeye was more of a back-up plan, as Luke Cage originally wanted Monica Rambo to head the team. They all end up putting on their happy faces for a new group photo.
Jim Zub revealed some details about Eegro the Unbreakable in an interview with ComicBook.com ahead of the new Lightning Reboot.
“Eegro the Unbreakable is Sean and I’m giving a hat tip to something else entirely, the cool old Kirby creatures of the ’60s,” Zub said. “His name, image, and attitude play on those comical tropes of Amazing Beasts, and Shawn’s cover of issue #2 leans into that as well. Igro speaks for himself in the third person, is 100% sure of his own abilities, and has an amazing final attack that we think will surprise Readers are entertained at a crucial moment of the story.”
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