The reptilian Mu’Tant named Lord Slithe has chased his prey across the universe to enact revenge on his enemies. Now he finds himself on a foreign world chasing his feline prey. It’s a brutal world that he finds himself in, but no amount of danger will dissuade him from fulfilling his mission in Thundercats #10. Writer Declan Shalvey continues his exploration of the classic animated TV series from the 1980s with artist Joe Mulvey and the coloring team of Simona Guida, Chiara Di Francia & Andrea Izzo. The action continues in a more open and expansive format than had been allowed on animated commercial television four decades ago. 

Lord Slithe has been in a very bad way lately. While the. Thundercats have been surviving quite well on Third Earth, Slithe has had some rather unfortunate luck and a rather serious run-in with a native entity known as Mum-Ra. Now he has run into a masked reptilian who seems quite familiar. It’s all at least bit confusing, but he’s well on his way to understanding everything just a bit better. Things might be turning around for the Mutant known as Lord Slithe. The Thundercats may have run into some serious danger.

The fun thing about the Thundercats is its clever melange of simplicity and ambiguity. The format of a 1980s kids’ TV show kept the more sophisticated elements of the story well in the distance. There’s so much that can be explored around the edges of a basic good vs. evil story that could provide a great deal of depth. In the tenth issue of the series, Shalvey focusses on a kind of a weak villain character. Shalvey provides a background for the villain that gives him a much more sympathetic perspective. It provides substantial depth that had always been possible with the reptilian. It’s nice to see him getting a bit of the spotlight as the series continues. 

Guida wield the action with a deft pen. There’s a strong sense of motion and force in the exaggerated perspectives that Guida is using. It's not just that the action is being delivered to the page and wave that feels that much more powerful than most action in most mainstream comics. The fact that it's able to be done in isolated, a little panels that share the page with a lot of other action. The flow of events from one moment to the next really develop a sense of rhythm as the narrative flows from the beginning to end of the issue. Visually this is a very well executed issue on quite a few levels.

It's interesting seeing the ensemble of character is given greater depth. It will be interesting seeing where.Shalvey and company go with the series. The characters created had a great potential to explore great many things through space fantasy in a wave that could have been tremendously more deep than a 1980s animated kid show would allow for. It'll be interesting to see if more of that potential is realized as is hinted out in the tenth issue.

Grade: A