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Summary: The new millenium is here!
Review: Just when I thought that fighting God and changing the world was the furthest any super hero could go, they go a bit further. Now the very earth we live in is trying to kill us. But thanks to the heroic efforts of the Authority who is now lead by Jack Hawksmoore, humanity has a chance to survive.
This book brings the ultimate superhero team together one more time to shocking twist and new turns. This coupled with the last chapter coming in October finish off one of the best superhero stories of all time. Get it and you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: "Why would the Earth just start killing people?"
Review: The third reprint collection of "The Authority" arrives with the super-hero team fighting Earth itself. This collection features one extended storyline from "The Authority" comic series and three short stories from other sources.The main storyline in the book is the "Earth Inferno" storyline from issues 17 to 20 of the ongoing series. Issues 17 and 18 were by writer Mark Millar and artist Chris Weston and issues 19 and 20 were by Millar and artist Frank Quitely. The story begins with the team's investigation of strange and devestating natural disasters worldwide. It turns out the Earth itself is wreaking havoc on its human population and the team must align themselves with a notorious super villian to stop the destruction. This story doesn't have the same type of frenzied outrageousness of the prior storylines and the writing is muddled at times. Still the appeal of the individual characters along with an intriguing evacuation plan for the Earth's population help turn the tale into one worth checking out. Quitely's work in particular is something to be admired. The other three stories are weak in comparison. "Devil's Night" from the 2000 Annual by writer Joe Casey and Artist Cully Hamner is a mess. It's just page after page of explosions and people punching each other with nothing of substance to bind everything together. "Isolation" by writer Paul Jenkins and artist Georges Jeanty and "Orbital" by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner from the 2001 Wildstorm Summer Special fare better as character studies of the Engineer and Jack Hawksmoor respectively. "Isolation" is noteworthy in a wickedly fun way due to its exploration of a side of super heroines that you don't see much in mainstream comics. Yet, both stories feel like filler material. All in all, volume 3 is a mixed bag. Not as good as the prior two volumes but still an ok way to pass to time due to the strength of the "Earth Inferno" storyline.
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Summary: With superheros like these, who needs villians?
Review: These guys are so violent and fun at the same time that villians have to be the worst [ones] we ever saw. The destruction of New York under a big tidal wave is like a prophetic vision; but in the real world, we didn't have the Authority. Somehow, the dialogue is ironic and full of comments against the government and the people that supports its policies. Liberal bastards, I would call them. Nice moments of enjoyable reading. But don't be shocked for what you see. Reality is way worse.
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Summary: Truth In Advertising...They Are "The Authority"
Review: What can I say about this book? I think that it's great to see super-heroes buck the "status-quo" and that The Authority are like no other super-heroes out there. Also, I like how The Authority solved problems with methods that no other super-hero would even consider and that they would take risks that no one else would. I think that the story and art are excellent, the fight scenes are among the best in comic-book history and that the characters are great(especially Apollo and The Midnighter). I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of comic books.
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Summary: Truth In Advertising...They Are "The Authority"
Review: What can I say about this book? I think that it's great to see super-heroes buck the "status-quo" and that The Authority are like no other super-heroes out there. Also, I like how The Authority solved problems with methods that no other super-hero would even consider and that they would take risks that no one else would. I think that the story and art are excellent, the fight scenes are among the best in comic-book history and that the characters are great(especially Apollo and The Midnighter). I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of comic books.
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