Stormwatch #10

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Comments

[darkknightjrk]

I love how this revealed that the French and Indian War was caused by Stormwatch going public and then having to take it back through sci-fi weaponry and political assassination.

Also, that "Next issue" tag? Amazing.

[icon_uk]

For heaven's sake Midnighter, go give the man a hug!

[lucky_gamble]

You beat me to the post! Really Apollo and Midnighter are the only reason I still buy this book.

[ensiform]

Ugh, I hate that Midnighter costume, and putting them in the same universe as the DC mains just riles me.

You consarn kids get off my lawn, &c.

[crabby_lioness]

Inexcusable meta aside, that's a really good character scene.

[maseiken]

Ha! Martian Manhunter? Awesome. I thought he was a hidden threat that fought the JLA in the past. Did he join Stormwatch after that?

[skemono]

Apollo (and Midnighter, I assume) have names now?

[big_daddy_d]

So it would appear that Stormwatch runs the world from behind the curtain, am I right?

[kiev4am]

*sigh* So on top of the redesigns, the wonky voices and overall sense of editorial picking and prodding on this book, they took one of the few happy, angst-free, really-not-giving-a-fuck gay characters in comics and gave him coming-out angst via a backstory that sounds as perfunctory as if it was worked out on the back of a cigarette packet while watching teen soaps?

Sorry, not sold. Apollo was/is one of my favourite characters in comics simply because you had this genuinely easygoing, happy guy on a ridiculously hardcore morally-grey superteam; he was like the anti!90s-grimdark, which poked fun at the Authority's own excess and made his relationship with Midnighter all the more unlikely and sweet. And yes, it was nice and novel that here was a 90s character that nobody felt needed to have suffered emotionally in his past. What was wrong with that character that DC felt he needed to be fixed by making him bitter and snarky? (Because it's so edgy and mature and nobody else in the DCnU is like that... OH WAIT)

This has been an Authority fanrant :/

[kraesil]

Word of the day: ANGST!

Actually, no. Make that word of the century.