if you look on some of the other thread people have arranged to meet up an stuff and i'm sure the lovely people on the forum will probably say again to clarify when it is.
yeah lets meet up!! And i'm not sure I know who Liefeld is. Anyway, check out the other threads cos Mayberry's always planning the next drinking session ... comics and alcohol, mmm.
When Warren Ellis introduced them in Stormwatch he only implied they were gay, in fact I think even in The Authority it never specifically showed them as a gay couple, then when Mark Millar took over he married the two of them and they adopted a girl (I won't give anything away in case you haven't read those books yet, I highly recomend all the Ellis Stormwatch/Authority books and the Millar stuff too. After that it went downhill a bit, although there were a few decent stories. Authority: Revolution kicked things back up a notch but still didn't capture the full feeling of the original books for me. Have yet to read the new series as I only collect them all in Trades, but I think The Authority is one of those books that should have stopped when it was at a high point.
I just picked up random graphics at the library to try out and that was one of them.
It was ok, I wasn't too keen on it tho. Not about the guys being gay, I couldnt care less but how the stories were done, it just seemed to confused and muddled. Then 2nd story had this build up to a shocking revelation of what some aliens did and then the rey revealed it and it was shocking but thne they mentioned it in every line afterwards and it lost its impact.
ummm think its called 'Relentless' book 1 maybe? there was 2 stories. One was some japanese nutter with a built super army and the other was blue aliens from another reality that were involved with humanity for hundreds of years and ran the british empire.
I aint read ultimates yet, heard great things about it though.
The new series is great. It's as fresh, different and interesting now as Stormwatch was when Ellis started writing it. We won't have issue one in stock for much longer. Don't miss out.
Walkin-X - thats the very first book and while i really anjoyed it it's not as extreme as when Millar started writing it. Plenty of jaws kicked off :-D
Georgiana - 2 minutes of running in heavy leather will induce an asthma attack in me, don't think i'd be a very good vigilante hahaha
I'd fallen out with superhero action adventure comics for quite a while. I was only reading snooty indie comics and vertigo stuff... and then I read Ellis's first Stormwatch issues and I was hooked. Again. If it wasn't for Stormwatch there would have been no Authority, Ultimates, JLA, Civil War, New Avengers etc. Maybe comics need another re-invention.
I got my ex into comics through The Authority, she thought Jenny Sparks was great, and the more controversial it got the more she loved it. She likes most of Ellis' (and Millar's) superhero stuff but Strange Kisses freaked her out a bit hahaha
myabe I will give it another go. I just didnt click with the charcters or waht was going on. I mena its DC world right? Where was Superman when an army of Japanese super powered beings were murdering thousands of people in the cities of the world? you know?
So much stuff to get though, you'd have to be rich..or a comic store owner to get it all.
One of the things that makes Stormwatch/Authority so emidiately enjoyable is that each character is recognisable as a sideways step of a familiar character, Batman, Superman, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, Daredevil... whoever. I think a lot of the reason that Stormwatch was so good was at the time nobody was reading it, I was working at fp back then and we struggled to sell 10 copies a month, so Ellis could get away with killing of characters or turning them into traitors or whatever, nobody was watching over him. So when he squashes the Wildstorm Superman like a bug on a celestial windscreen, who cares, it's not really superman.
There was a JLA/Authority crossover oneshot which was ok.
The DC and Wildstorm universes are seperate, but recently Captain Atom crossed over from the DCU to the Wildstorm Universe and had all sorts of hilarious adventures. Possibly. Once upon a time the Wildstorm stuff was part of the main Image Universe.
