WildCATS #19 - WildStorm

Well . . the battle has begun. And Earth is under siege by . . well, everybody it would seem. Last issue the Carrier took off for parts unknown. It was powered up by some kind of beam and then pulled away like it was on a homing signal. That took a lot of Earth's forces with them. The ones left behind are stuck facing the Red Blade, Kheran's elite fighting force. They've conquered more galaxies than there's probably people left on Earth. The heroes that are left don't really stand much of a chance. That is until the Earth is also invaded by a fighting force from Sliding Albion. Although their arrival is not fortuitous for Earth, it is a distraction for the Kheran forces. Basically, Sebastian, the leader of the Kheran's, doesn't want anyone else to mess up their battle plans . . or their terraforming ones. Yes that's right. Red Flag wants to defeat the forces of Earth so that they can terraform it into New Kheran. While their up fighting the Sliding Albion forces, Spartan tries to rally the forces that they have . . and remove as many civilians as possible. Soon more forces begin to arrive, starting with the Paladins. But not much progress is made before Red Flag defeats Albion, and decides to come back down and finish what they started. Things do not look good for the people left on Earth. They really need to pull something out of their ass for this one. Maybe if Tao or Max were still around. Midnighter tells Spartan, 'I've played the battle to come a million times in my mind already . . in five of them I come out alive.' Adam Beechen wrote this, with Tim Seeley doing the pencils. It's an interesting book. But there doesn't seem to be much of a future left. I have a feeling it's going to be a heck of a year for the WildStorm Universe.