StormWatch #21 - WildStorm

Jackson has decided to go after the Night Tribes. I guess he's just decided that they're a scourge on the Earth. They begin this issue up in Skywatch interrogating Petra. Christine is a little appalled by the lack of restraint he is using, but Petra informs her . . "I wanted this! I went looking for the night tribes, told them who I was. Bartered what I knew in exchange for becoming one of them! I gave them the others as an act of good faith. It was Kabras himself who turned me!" However, as much as Petra is pissing him off, he really wants to take down Kabras. So he sends Petra back. He tells her that he wants her to give Kabras a warning from him. But, what he really wants it to track her. Christine gives her some blood to drink, to help her recuperate, but it's laced with a radioactive isotope. They're hoping that she'll lead them straight to Kabras. However, Dane is also going after the Night Tribes and currently he is taking them out with the head of Medusa. When he turns Petra to stone, Skywatch loses track of her. So Jackson transports Dane up to the station. Right now he wants to keep Kabras alive so that he can keep the Night Tribes together. He has a plan to eradicate them all, wiping out the species, that's been approved by the Vatican. Now he just has to get Winter to play his part in the whole thing. They remind him that he's linked to the sun . . the scourge of the Night Tribes. So Christine powers him up, but she has to be careful. The last time he absorbed the sun's energy he went mad and attacked the Earth. So this time she gives him just enough energy that he can't quite tap into it yet. Then Jackson sends him down right in the middle of the tribes. He's hoping that with the right amount of stress it might trigger an outburst. And of course he's right. Winter fights the Tribes for a few minutes with no results, and he's ready to give up. But Jackson won't let him. Eventually he gets to a point where he lets out a wide flash-burst and takes out everything surrounding him for, probably, miles. The crater he's created looks like a small country form Skywatch. However, now he's energized and pissed. "Notify high command. Tell them . . we may have a problem." Also this issue, we see the High return to his 'fortress of solitude'. It's been years since he's been here. And he seems to have come with a purpose. He goes up to what looks like a giant version of a Faberge egg, and enters it. There's a sign outside that says, "Purple Haze - Metagenic Mist: Biohazard - Treat with extreme caution!" As he enters he says "Oh, what the hell . .", and he also drops a note. On it it says, "Help us . . " I'm not sure what that was all about, but . . I'm sure we'll find out soon. Ian Edginton and Leandro Fernandez supply the creative juice for this book. I thought this was one of the best issues of Stormwatch that I've read in a while. It thoroughly kept my interest. I'm looking forward to the next issue.