Let's discuss the Authority.
>Who is your favorite character?
>What's your favorite run?
>Favorite page or panel?
>Who do you think the most underrated member of the team is?
>What do you think caused the team to become as obscure/unpopular as they are, considering how popular they were back in the early 00s?
>Thoughts, comments, concerns about their role in the Superman movie?
>What plot should their own movie will have?
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Never read it. What's the pitch?
The authority was one of the earliest comics I read on the mid 00's alongside Planetary.
Looking the style those comics had really left a mark on me.
A late example of "Not your grandpappy's super heros, these superheros have SEX! and MURDER their villains!" but with the edges sanded off and a nice coat of paint to make it digestible.
It's not violent nonsense like 90's image, it's violence with sense.
>It's not violent nonsense like 90's image, it's violence with sense.
Midnighter is absolutly pure 90's edge.
Maybe with a bit more silly self-awerness but still.
Yes but he has more to his person than a Rob Liefeld character.
>Justice League without cartoon-world rules where actions have consequences, adults act like adults, people are killed in city-destroying fights and mass-murderers are killed without “if I kill them I become them” morals
Superheroes...but edgy and written by a Brit who hates superheroes
Ignore the other replies. It's just "big budget superhero movie in comic form".
Never read them but Captain Atom: Armageddon was fun
I will legitimately never understand what Jack and Jenny's powers are supposed to be. Jack's power is cities and Jenny is a century? What the frick does either of that even mean? I like the other ones though.
Jenny Sparks has poorly defined electrical powers, and Jenny Quantum has poorly defined quantum powers. Jack Hawksmoor is a genetically altered human by future humans to be fully optimalized for operation within an oppressively urban environment, to the point he can even wear a city like a mech suit. He was treated a lot like Spider-Man in his early StormWatch appearances, and more like Aquaman in the Authority, if that helps.
They sound lame as frick I prefer the justice league knock offs
>i clap cause i know them
You sound lame as frick, anon.
Who's cooler, that girl with a shirt with the brittish flag or midnighter?
I'm more about the Doctor and Rose Tattoo, anon.
I miss Rose Tattoo.
>Jack Hawksmoor is a genetically altered human by future humans to be fully optimalized for operation within an oppressively urban environment.
A brit wrote this.
Wdym?
Jenny is a century baby. She lives for 100 years (aka turn of the century) and in that time has a power set that can manipulate the abilities related to any and all discoveries within in it. IE 1800s Jenny is a woman with control over the electro spectrum and can do all sorts of standard electro things.
1900s and 00s gains access to quantum physics manipulation, nuclear physics, tech, etc on top of the previous powers the other women had. This is summed up as do-anything-I-want by most writers which is why they just wrote her as a b***hy sober Doctor.
If this is too much for your pea brain, just think of her as the Avatar of science.
>and in that time has a power set that can manipulate the abilities related to any and all discoveries within in it.
What did she do during the dark ages.
Jenny Stone and Jenny Fire
There's water coming out ot that statue's butt.
Enough golytely will do that
That is idiotic. If there is a different one every 100 years there would be thousands of Jenny Stones
>21 centuries so far, which means 21 versions of Jenny
>"How come there aren't thousands of them?"
Frick man you are the only idiot here
I'm sure you can find at least one new invention every century.
>Jenny Basket Weaving
>Jenny Sharp Stick
>Jenny Slightly Better Shaped Arrowhead
I am sure Jenny Prostitute exists somewhere...
>Jenny Prostitute
You mean Jenny McCarthy?
It's McFarthy actually
> Jenny Wheel
> Jenny Thread
> Jenny Stint
> Jenny Campfire
>Jenny Irrigation
>Jenny Enclosure
>Jenny Brick
>Jenny Concrete
Jenny Quantum should have been 1900s, no? What about Jenny Nuclear?
I thought Quantium was 20s and Sparks 19s. May be reverse but 19 uses nuclear physics as reality bend reason.
20s is built on that + the whole quantum machines will rewrite everything we know on computing and the unknown of the next 80+ years.
>20s is built on that + the whole quantum machines will rewrite everything we know on computing and the unknown of the next 80+ years.
Makes sense.
Jack is do pretty much anything in/with a city.
When he’s away from one like in a desert he’s pretty useless, but when he’s in one he can travel through it with ease (like go through buildings/the ground or walk on buildings), he can “listen” to a city and find what he needs in one, he can merge with a city to make the city into a giant mech/kaiju he can control, doesn’t need to eat or breathe because he can turn pollution into nutrients and the city breathes for him, can move buildings/city structures, etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/91077z/respect_jack_hawksmoor_wildstorm/
That's idiotic.
Sorry not everybody is a generic brick like Superman or a generic unpowered-but-totally-powered human like Batman.
No he's just completely all power in the most nonsense ill defined way imaginable.
Just because you didn't direct a link to it doesn't mean you didn't reply, wiener munch.
You are still a homosexual
I remember this, he could make cities eat people. It was just...yeah okay. They also had a guy who could basically use magic to do anything like he could just be frick this bad guy you're a chicken now and I've sent you to the Jurassic age. It was very look how edgy and realistic we are because drugs and sex but also let's completely ignore how OP as shit our characters are and how they could realistically end all problems in a single panel.
>Who is your favorite character?
Forever Jenny Sparks.
>What's your favorite run?
Ellis
>Favorite page or panel?
When they sink nu-Italy in the other dimension
>Who do you think the most underrated member of the team is?
Idk if there really is one. Swift, I guess? She always felt out of place because of her somewhat middling powerset but she at least brings a flavor to things
>What do you think caused the team to become as obscure/unpopular as they are, considering how popular they were back in the early 00s?
I mean, what else would it be? Modern comics caught up to them, took away the wrong lessons, etc. They were a fun experiment in post-superheroism but now every superhero occupies the same type of narrative they did and operates under the same rules. Their edge got lost in the crowd, and their attempts to get edgier only made them seem even more kitsch
>Thoughts, comments, concerns about their role in the Superman movie?
Dread. I don't need the Authority operating as stand-ins for the Elite, just get the Elite in there to operate as your strawmen and leave the actual characters alone. But maybe Gunn will go for something less typical, considering they're supposed to get their own movie down the road. Can't really do that if you spend their first appearance kicking them down
>What plot should their own movie will have?
Set at the turn of the twenty-first century, it's the only point in time where their hook works thematically anyway.
A continuation of Stormwatch in which the writers embraced the image style and came up with their own OCs of existing properties. The art is great and the plotting is as if you're reading a blockbuster movie (rip off), from marvel ultimate is a famous version of this series.
Has there ever been as hard a drop in quality from Ellis to Millar? Millar's run is so fricking mean spirited and just a black hole of any joy or fun.
I enjoyed Seth and Chaplain Action, He-Man of the Cloth (but I think the Chaplain is a Tom Peyer creation).
They're all sex perverts
They're okay.
KEV WAS HERE. THEY'RE ALL A BUNCH OF POOF c**tS.
>that villain that went back in time to molest one of the heroes as a child
Kind of wish someone would storytime The Authority again.
>>What's your favorite run?
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone even MIGHT answer anything other than "Ellis/Hytch" to this?
DnA
>Hytch
Frick, typo. I mean Hitch.
I kinda like Robbie Morrison’s tun, the Godhead arc was fun
Qrd pls
>Robbie Morrison
Was his run like Shakara?
I would probably like Ellis' run if it weren't drawn by Hitch.
I really hate this kind of "Superheros but mature and for grown ups" shit. Because it's still the same kind of fantasy escape fantasy bullshit as the comics it thinks are immature just with an added layer of violence, sex and cynicism that anyone who's actually mature would have grown out of thinking was cool years ago.
No (you)s for you
homosexual
How could Swift be more important/useful?
breasts. Also breasts.
They made her The Real Doctor All Along(TM) just before WildStorm ended. Doesn't stick for me, either.
I like the one where they fight Lobo.
I wish Apollo could do more than job and be Midnighter's dildo
I wish they could choose a better personality because him being a Superman fanboy himbo is awful.
>Favorite page or panel?
i now see why gunn was so adamant about having her in the new movies.
I am afraid that in a few years, it will be revealed that people like Gunn or Tarantino did some awful things.
I have always suspected about Tarantino. The guy is such a weirdo.
Never trust a foot guy.
The thing about this series is that most of the plots are carried over from the image era with even characters from that time appearing the difference is that you have high profile writers and some great artists. It's almost like Supreme when Moore took the title is a different animal than the other stories from that time
I don't really care for the rest outside of Midnighter, Apollo, and Jack. I think Midnighter is my favorite though because he's the perfect caricature of Batman that cracks me up.
What am i in for it here?
Thinking about, how come we dont have an Authority cartoon/tv show right now? We are in the middle of the edgy Superman bullshit, so i am surprised they are not riding in the invincible and the boys wave.
>do you like edge Superman?
>what about some edge Batman?
>what about le gore
>what if edgy Bats and Supes were a homosexual couple?
They'd wanna frick it up and have to insert DC shit into it because of misguided notions of branding and whatever.
My favorite was always the Carrier. She's totally underrated, despite being the absolute backbone of the team.
Will they be strawman-standins in Superman Legacy? Remember when Superman told the Elite "No, YOU guys can't be fascist, only *I* can be fascist."