The Authority vs. "Cthulhu"
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scans_dailySo as of the end of last issue, the Carrier's out of juice, stranding the Authority on an Earth that's latched onto a slumbering Lovecraft-ian entity. What next?
Four pages from The Authority: The Lost Year #5...
The Engineer comes up with a way to make lemonade out of lemons: Drain energy from "Cthulhu" to power the Carrier up, using one of this Earth's humans as the jumper cable in-between (because the creature is psychically linked to every human on this Earth).
The process would kill whatever individual is serving as the conduit, though. Ken, the soldier from this Earth that the Authority have been interacting with for the past few issues, volunteers. After all, if the Authority don't leave, their abnormal presence will eventually wake the creature up, and that would be very bad news for everyone.
He gets hooked up to the apparatus.
It works. The Carrier is jumpstarted back to wakefulness; the Authority are back in the Bleed, on their way home.
Unfortunately, the process also kills "Cthulhu," and the psychic aftershock kills every human on that Earth, as Angie feared might happen (the "sin of omission" they committed against Ken).
That second-to-last panel is Ken's estranged wife. That e-mail she's receiving is what Ken was writing on his laptop before he went to make his sacrifice, his final message to her. Of course, now she'll never read it.
Tags:
title: the authority, creator: keith giffen, creator: grant morrison, creator: darick robertson, publisher: wildstorm, group: the authority
Four pages from The Authority: The Lost Year #5...
The Engineer comes up with a way to make lemonade out of lemons: Drain energy from "Cthulhu" to power the Carrier up, using one of this Earth's humans as the jumper cable in-between (because the creature is psychically linked to every human on this Earth).
The process would kill whatever individual is serving as the conduit, though. Ken, the soldier from this Earth that the Authority have been interacting with for the past few issues, volunteers. After all, if the Authority don't leave, their abnormal presence will eventually wake the creature up, and that would be very bad news for everyone.
He gets hooked up to the apparatus.
It works. The Carrier is jumpstarted back to wakefulness; the Authority are back in the Bleed, on their way home.
Unfortunately, the process also kills "Cthulhu," and the psychic aftershock kills every human on that Earth, as Angie feared might happen (the "sin of omission" they committed against Ken).
That second-to-last panel is Ken's estranged wife. That e-mail she's receiving is what Ken was writing on his laptop before he went to make his sacrifice, his final message to her. Of course, now she'll never read it.
Tags:
title: the authority, creator: keith giffen, creator: grant morrison, creator: darick robertson, publisher: wildstorm, group: the authority
