Writer Fred Van Lente and artist Jonathan Lau are teaming for a retelling of Peter Cannon’s origin in Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt: Destroyer of Death at Dynamite Entertainment.
In the twenty-first century, the world is awash in would-be messiahs, crazed conspiracists, and apocalypse cults. One man strikes through the fog of deception with an awakened mind and lightning fists…. Cannon discovers the last surviving member of an order of mystics who has come to New York City to hunt the renegade master that destroyed his teachers and his parents. Now the Hidden One has enmeshed himself in the city’s elite and has marked Peter for death. Unfortunately for his enemies, though, Peter is the fabled lightning vessel of the awakened, whose strike collapses time and defies even death itself…he is the living thunderbolt!
“Peter Cannon is one of the most influential heroes of all time, inspiring not just Watchmen’s Ozymandias and other kung-fu heroes like Iron Fist,” said writer Fred Van Lente. “Jonathan and I have stripped Peter down to his essentials for some gritty martial arts action: A young man descends from his mountain retreat to use his newfound skills to save the world that may not want to be saved. Philosophy and fisticuffs abound!”
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt: Destroyer of Death #1 arrives in November 2022.
