The Official Wildstorm Thread

[yenaled]

Captain Atom was the reason I went back and picked up all of Magestic and a lot of WildCATS.

Just when Wildstorm had my attention they ****ed it up so badly.

GG.

 

[The Eagle Host]

To be fair, it was actually Majestic that got me into Wildstorm. I was intrigued when he showed up in the DCU, I stuck with him for his miniseries, and his ongoing kicked all kinds of ass. CA: Armageddon cemented it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I remember. Did you ever read any of the Wildcats comics?

Captain Atom was the reason I went back and picked up all of Magestic and a lot of WildCATS.

Just when Wildstorm had my attention they ****ed it up so badly.

GG.

For real. The DnA Majestic series was kicking ass, and then it just stopped.

 

[The Eagle Host]

Not yet, but I'd like to. That mysterious Absolute WildCATS is still sounding tempting to get into the earlier stuff.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Volume 2 and v3.0 are much better than the earlier stuff, as far as I'm concerned. "Serial Boxes" from volume 2 especially.

 

[fifthfiend]

That Authority preview reeks of this "We're the Authority, we suck! Watch us get our asses kicked and fail" thing that DC's been doing to them ever since they ran Millar out of the building.

....And jesus, dark stubble on Midnighter? They've even forgotten that he's blond? Just, ugh.

 

[Aristotle]

I know what you mean about the Authority, and I've frankly felt the same way and expressed the same opinion quite a few times; it's like Ellis and Millar gave them this great unequivocally progressive superteam...which means the team has to be a straw man that loses more often than a supervillain.

Stubble can look dark on blond dudes.

 

[Aristotle]

As far as this apocalypse thing goes...I finally figured out what was up in Number of the Beast about halfway through the latest issue, which is a cool and interesting idea, but I don't see how New Dynamix, the Armageddon one-shots, or Revelations tie into it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I flipped through Number of the Beast, but I was confused about why I couldn't recognize anybody in it if it's a status-quo-shifting event for the entire WSU, which I'm fairly familiar with, so I put it back on the rack.

 

[Aristotle]

Number of the Beast [blackout]seems to so far have spent three issues resurrecting The High. See, he didn't die, he was just captured after he hit the forcefield, and put into this Matrix-style VR simulation, along with hundreds of other heroes and villains, for reasons so far unknown. That's why we haven't seen the real WSU. This is setting up the return of the High and a bunch of other heroes, the ones that all "disappeared" over the years, as discussed in Revelations. And that explosion in the metahuman population is what brings on the future seen in the Armageddon one-shots, as near as I can tell.[/blackout] But I still don't know why the hell New Dynamix is important.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Who's [blackout]the High[/blackout]?

 

[Aristotle]

You know, [blackout]The High! Like the original great and awesome superhero from the (never actually in the comics) Golden Age of the WSU. A lot of these guys in Number of the Beast are from the WSU's Golden Age, WWII years. Anyway, The High is the only one I can think of that was ever mentioned before. Thirty years ago, he went insane and tried to destroy Skywatch, but its forcefield obliterated him[/blackout]...or did it?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ah. The only dudes I'm familiar with from that period are Majestic, John Colt, and the other original Team Zero people.

 

[deathshead2]

Wait so wildstorm is rebooting itself again? Is wildcats and ongoing yet. I've been wanting to read it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wildcats: World's End is supposed to be a new ongoing for them that actually goes past the first issue.

 

[The Eagle Host]

Morrison maintains his story will be finished. I blindly believe him.

 

[Aristotle]

I'm sure he'll eventually finish both of them, but I really doubt he'll get to do the full run he had planned.

 

[yenaled]

I thought he said it will never get finished?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I heard it's going to go into an All-Star Wildcats sort of thing. It'll be its own separate continuity. Which is fine by me. I'm sure Morrison's run would've been interesting, but Gage's take seems far more in line with the Wildcats I know and love than Morrison's did.

 

[The Eagle Host]

His Wildcats story has been pushed out of continuity, but he's still finishing it. I think he mentioned he's on issue 3. I don't believe he has any desire to finish Authority after the reviews the first issue got.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't even remember what his Authority comics were like, truth be told. I remember Gene Ha's art was nice, though.

 

[Aristotle]

His Wildcats story has been pushed out of continuity, but he's still finishing it. I think he mentioned he's on issue 3. I don't believe he has any desire to finish Authority after the reviews the first issue got.

Man, **** that. That is really lame. You don't start a story and then just not finish it. You do that, you're no better than Rob Liefeld.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think it was as much Jim Lee's fault as his. He's not exactly known to be a speedy penciler, and Morrison probably figured he could take his time writing while Lee took forever to draw.

 

[Aristotle]

I'm talking about Morrison on Authority.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, okay. Never mind, then.