Source: mycomicshop.com

7. “The Revolt Within”

Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artist: Mark Bagley

The evil Metal Men are boring. I like the Thunderbolts but these element villains are all pretty one note.

The big twist here is the end of issue moment where one of the element men snaps Fixer’s neck like a twig and seemingly kills him. As we’ll see, that’s not entirely the case but that’ll take a couple issues to really resolve. And it’s a good reveal. These characters are all villains, and c-list ones at that. They really could kill off any one of them for real and they probably wouldn’t come back.

Of course, knowing the full arc of the series, we know he comes back, but thankfully he does it without that stupid dumb costume and facial hair. He gets a cool robot body but we’ll get to that soon.