I have to say this might be one of the biggest surprises for me.

After really enjoying volume 1 and even 2 of Thunderbolts I was excited to dive deeper into their group and stories. And I loved we got to modern era, early 2000's, since that is where I myself got into most comics as a young teen. However, this series failed to maintain it's style or character development we got in the previous to Omnibus.

This Omnibus starts with Counter Earth. Now let me just say all this counter earth shit is NOT a fun read. It's boring and way to sci-fi to make me give a shit about the settings. And a lot of the first 10 issues or so are one offs, no team dynamic, and feels very very different from the previous run of feeling like a team.

Then we get into the Avengers/Thunderbolts team up and it's okay. It's solid enough and some cool moments shared between leads like Cap, Songbird, and so on. But overall kind of forgettable if I'm being honest.

Then we jump into the New Thunderbolts, a relaunch for the series, and it's okay. It feels like the team is back together, and moments of them working and fighting together is great, but the feel outside of the fights just isn't the same. They don't feel like the real group of Thunderbolts we had in the previous Omnibus. They feel more individual problems but not actually crossing over with each other to help one another.

Just overall besides some solid issues including Civil War event, or Avengers vs Thunderbolts, this last half was again just okay. The art is fine. The story is meh. The characters when they're together work but a lot of the time they aren't. And the big end of the world type shit just didn't work well for this team.

Overall a 2.5 out of 5.