This issue though not new shows us the potential of what the Authority and Stormwatch could be. We also have a younger John Cassaday whose artwork is already phenomenal even at this stage and Warren Ellis giving his allAs the title and cover shows, we see this as your non-traditional superhero comic. It is about a group of always three people though we are not sure why who is hired and recruited into this awesomely weirdly high tech organization where there seems to be no one else and their jobs are to go on missions that are just plain weird with potentially X-Files style except to the max
As this issue opens, we are introduced Jakita (the lady who turns out to enjoy a good brawl hence her dressing and she is the most "super hero" of the group) who comes a recruiting to a café in the middle of somewhere. The gentleman she is recruiting is one Snow (chap in white). What makes him special is he is one of those millennia type folks i.e. living below the radar but have existed for a full millennia (yup a hundred years old) with what other abilities no one is sure
The third team member is Drums and his ability is that he can tap into all sorts of data wavelengths but he needs to draw them out. We are not told all this but the artwork after a few issues sort of shows you this and hence the need to always drum or stamp his feet (weird right?)
And in this issue, they are sent to explore something that just came up on the mysterious radar blip only to discover that the "evil" is none other than SPOILER ALERT an aging Brass who has stayed there protecting the world from the "evil" after his ancient team had been decimated. He has survived but he didn't know the actual number of years (half a century) had passed by and he is still alive!
How's that for an eye opener of a first issue? Definitely makes us want to come back for more
Ratings: 8/10
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