Citizen V and the V-Battalion

(Marvel, 2001)
™ and ©2001 Marvel Characters, Inc.

This spinoff from the Thunderbolts series has the aging V Battalion—which includes many obscure heroes from the Golden Age days of Timely Comics (one of Marvel’s precursors)—fighting a covert ops style war against the minions of MODOK and the children of Captain America and Sgt. Fury baddie Baron Strucker. The ruthless Citizen V shown here is nothing like the World War II era character from which he takes his name, but the dissonance between the old Golden Age comics characters and their latter-day counterparts is what makes this series—and the Thunderbolts, for that matter—among the best Marvel books of the period. Also worth noting is the fact that the aging heroes show all-too-human fragility for, when they are not busy fighting world-class evil, they are battling against a much more implacable foe: the ravages of age, time and disease. Fabian Nicieza and Michael Ryan do an admirable job carrying on the tradition of the Marvel Universe’s earliest heroes.

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