As the THUNDER Agents archives go, I'll buy every volume DC puts out! I've been waiting for this to happen for a long time, and there's no possible way I could resist it!

I'm familiar with the Agents through the original comics, but I must explain I didn't read them when they came out. I picked up a handful of issues as back issues. Logic dictates that I must've heard of them prior to that--why else would I have bought the back issues--yet my memory is of reading more about them after reading some of the originals.

I chose Dynamo as my favorite feature, but it was a close call between him and NoMan! I liked all the features, but Dynamo edges out the rest due to the characterization.

Of the creators listed to start a new THUNDER series, I chose Mike W. Barr. I enjoyed his BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS, and I'd like to see him on another team book. However, I would be happy with just about any of the listed creators (and a few more besides), so long as they had a genuine love for the characters, had a great respect for the original stories, could remain true to the essence of the series, and had a good, solid concept for where the series would be taken.

What do you know? Those are the same "terms" I have for any creator taking over or reviving a title I enjoy! Of course, unless I actually enjoy reading the title once that person has started on it, it won't stay on my reading list, but that's what I ask of the creators.

So far as the comic strip battles to the death, SALLY FORTH would easily beat CATHY. Cathy would spend too much time fretting about how her boxing outfit looks on her, and Sally would slice her to pieces with her sharp wit in no time. I figured it would be close, but MIKE DOONESBURY would have the edge on FUNKY WINKERBEAN. And I picked SARGE SNORKEL over HAGAR, just because Snorkel has the advantage of experience actually beating up on someone.

I chose "yes" on airline pilots being allowed to carry guns, but that's not quite the whole story. I would want them allowed ONLY if they were very well trained in the use of them. They would have to be a crack shot, to avoid inadvertently causing harm to passengers in the event a terrorist tried to take over the flight. I'd actually prefer it if pilots and flight attendants instead were allowed to carry stun guns or tasers, which are less likely to be a threat to the entire flight if they were needed.

And, since I've no great fondness for George W. Bush, you can imagine how I voted on the last item!

It's hard to believe that so many people think Sally Forth could take Cathy. I voted the other way, because I see one of two things happening: either Cathy's ear-piercing ACK!s would confuse and disorient Sally, leaving her open to an attack; or Sally would happen to mention that she has a husband and a child, which would cause Cathy to go into a berserker rage, ala the Hulk. Either way, Sally would fall.

I was forced to say yes to the question about airline pilots being allowed to carry guns. The way I see it, any properly trained and licensed non-felon should be allowed to carry a gun. But should airline pilots carry guns in the cockpit while on duty? No. Too risky.