I was a little worried about being able to keep up with the story in this issue. After all . . issues #1 and #2 came out in November of 2006, and April of 2007. I read so many books every month it's hard to keep the stories straight from month to month. But a book in which we saw the last issue almost 3 years ago . . I'm not sure my memory or attention is that good. Grant Morrison and Gene Ha did the original 2 issues. They do help on this one, but I think Keith Giffen probably did most of the work with the story, and Darick Robertson and Trevor Scott do the art. Gene Ha simply does the cover. And thus ends our history lesson for the day . . now on to the story. Luckily this issue pretty much starts anew . . there's no carry-over from the previous issue. Well, none that would affect how you read the story anyways. In a nutshell . . the Carrier has crash-landed on an Earth with no other super-heroes. A world much like our own where the only super-heroes are in the comic books. However, it's not a world like ours. Ever since they've landed here, the Doctor has this foreboding feeling . . like the other shoes about to drop. He doesn't know specifically what it is . . it's all feelings and intuition, but he just has a feeling that if they stay here to long it'll be bad for . . well . . everybody. He feels there is some event on the horizon that if they're still here when it happens . . it'll be the end of this world. So he goes into one of the 'locals' mind. He wants to get a lay of the land. What he finds out is that this world survives only to feed another. The closest thing he can say to explain it is HP Lovecraft's ultimate evil . . Cthulhu. Whatever it is it appears to have a stranglehold on this world and their presence could probably cause some stomach aches. Angie keeps saying that it feels like it's a low-energy world, but actually . . it has energy, but it's all being diverted and fed to whatever this being is. It appears to be parasitically living off of this world and it's inhabitants. Which is how we end the issue. Another neat idea presented here is that when they crashed, the baby universe that powers the Carrier seems to have broken out of it's cage. But again, Angie is tossing an idea out there . . 'Maybe it didn't go anywhere. Maybe that's the universe we're stranded in. A power source the Carrier's been dipping into ever since . . whenever. Spooky thought.' All in all I thought this was a great book. The Authority's kind of been diminished since the whole World's End storyline. We see glimpses every now and then of the old team, but . . they're just not the same. This story gives us a picture of them in all of their pompous, glorious selves. It's a beauty to behold. Anyways . . I liked it. I'm not sure how many issues this one is scheduled for, but . . I'll definitely be around to see it.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
the Authority - the Lost Year #3 - WildStorm
I was a little worried about being able to keep up with the story in this issue. After all . . issues #1 and #2 came out in November of 2006, and April of 2007. I read so many books every month it's hard to keep the stories straight from month to month. But a book in which we saw the last issue almost 3 years ago . . I'm not sure my memory or attention is that good. Grant Morrison and Gene Ha did the original 2 issues. They do help on this one, but I think Keith Giffen probably did most of the work with the story, and Darick Robertson and Trevor Scott do the art. Gene Ha simply does the cover. And thus ends our history lesson for the day . . now on to the story. Luckily this issue pretty much starts anew . . there's no carry-over from the previous issue. Well, none that would affect how you read the story anyways. In a nutshell . . the Carrier has crash-landed on an Earth with no other super-heroes. A world much like our own where the only super-heroes are in the comic books. However, it's not a world like ours. Ever since they've landed here, the Doctor has this foreboding feeling . . like the other shoes about to drop. He doesn't know specifically what it is . . it's all feelings and intuition, but he just has a feeling that if they stay here to long it'll be bad for . . well . . everybody. He feels there is some event on the horizon that if they're still here when it happens . . it'll be the end of this world. So he goes into one of the 'locals' mind. He wants to get a lay of the land. What he finds out is that this world survives only to feed another. The closest thing he can say to explain it is HP Lovecraft's ultimate evil . . Cthulhu. Whatever it is it appears to have a stranglehold on this world and their presence could probably cause some stomach aches. Angie keeps saying that it feels like it's a low-energy world, but actually . . it has energy, but it's all being diverted and fed to whatever this being is. It appears to be parasitically living off of this world and it's inhabitants. Which is how we end the issue. Another neat idea presented here is that when they crashed, the baby universe that powers the Carrier seems to have broken out of it's cage. But again, Angie is tossing an idea out there . . 'Maybe it didn't go anywhere. Maybe that's the universe we're stranded in. A power source the Carrier's been dipping into ever since . . whenever. Spooky thought.' All in all I thought this was a great book. The Authority's kind of been diminished since the whole World's End storyline. We see glimpses every now and then of the old team, but . . they're just not the same. This story gives us a picture of them in all of their pompous, glorious selves. It's a beauty to behold. Anyways . . I liked it. I'm not sure how many issues this one is scheduled for, but . . I'll definitely be around to see it.
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