Earth vs. the Moon, Round 2

[arbre_rieur]

The moon's launched a slew of meteors at Earth, and each one that lands will transform into a giant monster. It's just one of those days...











The rest of the team pops over to Colorado, where Jack tries to make contact with this ancient, mystery city, while his teammates try to keep the monster from killing him before he gets a chance to.



Over at Newsarama, Cornell explained some of the ideas behind Adam One in an interview (http://www.newsarama.com/comics/cornell-dcnu-stormwatch-november-111101.html):

"He's a Boltzmann Brain. The theory goes that — and this will not appear in the comic at all — unless I do a Warren Ellis-style aside at some point about it — but as the theory goes, if we live in a genuinely infinite universe, there will, at some point, simply spring into existence intelligences. And that first moment after the universe was born would be a good moment for them. So he is one of those individuals, one of those people. He was formed simply out of sheer chance in the first moment of cosmic expansion. Or perhaps out of order — there may have been a great purpose behind it. Who knows?

He's been aging backwards ever since, perhaps because he got on the wrong end of that moment when time stopped being a dimension of space and became something a bit different.

I'm talking a fantastic game here, but none of this will show up in the title."

Comments

[kirke_novak]

Not a big fan of the issue. They still do massive awkward expositon dumps, Jack now literally talks to the cities and Apollo's name is Andrew. ANDREW! Ugh.

[icon_uk]

There's nothing wrong with Andrew as a name, it's a perfectly decent name.

[kirke_novak]

It's not the fact that his name is Andrew, it's the fact that he HAS a name - and in the 3rd issue. It's just... for me, he'll always be Bert. The end.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

I hate that they've given him a name too, and 'Andrew' does nothing for me at all. They always seem to pick the plainest names possible for their heroes. =/

I don't get the 'Bert' thing though, personal fanon? :P

[jar]

I'm pretty sure they're referring to the time Jenny Sparks dubbed Apollo and Midnighter "Bert and Ernie", heh.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Oooh of course, I'd forgotten about that. Thanks!

[alashandra]

Being a fan of The Authority, that's...yeah. Not a fan of this.

Also, I know Angie can multitask, but it seems to me that the whole leadership thing is NOT something she'd be asking about in the middle of a mission. Think about it, yes. But she'd save the asking until things were calmer. Mostly because not everybody can multitask the way she can and she knows that.

I can fully accept her wanting to be leader when the current one isn't exactly working out. But I can't see her putting that ahead of what needs to be done.