The Authority Vol. 1 (NOOK Comic with Zoom View)

by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Paul Neary

Overview

A New York Times Bestseller! After witnessing the demise of most of her StormWatch teammates, Jenny Sparks wants to create a new super hero team dedicated to protecting Earth against threats of a global scale. Joined by former StormWatch members Jack Hawksmoor and Shen Li-Min, Jenny recruits four new members, the Doctor, the Engineer, Apollo, and the Midnighter forming the ultra-powerful Authority. Collected in this edition are their first two missions, battling a nation of super-powered terrorists and stopping an invasion from a parallel world.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401245696
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	05/21/2013
Sold by:	DC Comics
Format:	eBook
File size:	182 MB
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About the Author

Warren Ellis is a comics and graphics novel writer best known for the graphic novel series TRANSMETROPOLITAN, PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY. With over thirty-five graphic novels in print, Ellis has received numerous acclaims including Winner of the International Horror Guild award for graphic narrative and being named one of Entertainment Weekly's 100 Most Creative People. Rolling Stone described his work as, "more influenced by Jesus and Mary Chain than by the JUSTICE LEAGUE, while his characters fight for left-wing agendas over God and country, and kick puppies in the street."

Editorial Reviews

This first volume collects the original 12-issue run of The Authority by series creators Ellis (Transmetropolitan) and Hitch (StormWatch) to treat readers to a transition from the team members of Ellis’s StormWatch to this new iteration, featuring a slightly revised cast of characters under a new purview. The team had once been a subsidized branch of the United Nations’ Superhuman Security and Intelligence Bureau, but now StormWatch has been disbanded and reformed under its own “Authority,” unofficially serving as its new name. The result is a very hard-edged series that explores the role of superhero teams as fascist enforcers of the common good. Ellis and Hitch test the newly minted authoritarian group against a rogue, superpowered terrorist state, an alternate, transdimensional, imperialistic Britain, and a mechanized race that created the earth itself. These threats are far from bush-league, and each tops the last in scale.

Verdict Ellis delivers a stark superhero drama of epic caliber that plays off the nature of unfettered power in the hands of a small number of individuals on the verge of a new millennium, while artist Hitch provides dynamic, psychedelic art to complement the narrative’s overarching themes.—Alger C. Newberry III, Genesee Dist. Lib., Flint, MI
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