Stormwatch #10

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[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!

[his_spiffynesss]

With all the spikes on that costume?

[icon_uk]

Like Apollo would even notice, he IS invulnerable after all.

[kirke_novak]

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

FIXED IT FOR... well, ok, myself. I fixed it for myself.

[thatnickguy]

"Is that a crotch spike?"
"...no."

[lucky_gamble]

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

[kirke_novak]

Motto!

[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?

[q99]

Well the fight with the JLA was in flash back, so I'm not sure whether the joining Stormwatch or fight was first.

[maseiken]

So Stormwatch either took him Despite having fought the JLA, or they took him Because he fought the JLA, or they commissioned him TO fight the JLA.

All of these things make sense actually. Stormwatch is great like that.

[q99]

Yep, The third is my instinct.

[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 :/

[deepspaceartist]

Hadn't the old Apollo and Midnighter been mindwiped when they got their powers? As in they had absolutley no idea who they were before they were Apollo and Midnighter?

Technichly then, the only backstory difference may be that Apollo now actually remembers his past, instead of being a historyless blank slate.

[kenn_el]

So Midnighter finds a way to wipe Apollo's memories ala Willow and Apollo becomes the happy-go-lucky superhero once more....BUT Midnighter knows the truth! The ANGST!

[deepspaceartist]

Willow and Tara's season six relationship is really not a good pattern to follow in terms of ethics (admittedly a rare problem for Midnighter) or survivability.

Heck, I don't even get why Tara was even willing to consider getting back with Willow. It had just been proven that it takes exeptionally little for Willow to screw around with her head. How could you ever trust someone after that?

[starwolf_oakley]

Hadn't the old Apollo and Midnighter been mindwiped when they got their powers? As in they had absolutley no idea who they were before they were Apollo and Midnighter?

Indeed, which was a source of angst and confusion for both of them, when a story had either one think about it. They didn't even know if they knew each other before they got their powers. I think there was even a sadistic suggestion from Henry Bendix that he "programmed" them to love each other.

[kraesil]

Word of the day: ANGST!

Actually, no. Make that word of the century.

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It's DC's word of the day. Every day.