Authority S.
2 total works
Meet the New Bosses The hugely acclaimed team of Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan) and Bryan Hitch (JLA) conclude their earth-rattling run on The Authority, just in time for the super-cool team of Mark Millar (Judge Dredd/ JLA) and Frank Quitely (Batman: The Scottish Connection) to come aboard and rock your world. In the first of two, epic story-arcs our heros battle god, who is keen on wiping out the viral infestation (ie. mankind) that has colonised earth. In the second, Millar and Quitely pit the Authority against a seemingly infinite number of superheroes. Essential reading!
The electric, no-nonsense Brit Jenny Sparks; the alien-designed King of Cities Jack Hawksmoor; the shamanic Doctor; the winged woman Shen Li-Min; the lithe cyborg Engineer; the leather-clad Midnighter and the sun-powered force of nature known as Apollo -- meet the Authority, standing ready to save the world from menaces on the vastest possible scale. Headquartered in an extraordinary fifty-mile-wide alien vessel existing outside of space and time, the Authority provides the ultimate defence to an unsuspecting world. From invasion from other realities to the advance of assassination squads trained to eliminate entire countries, they are the final authority: protecting billions who have no idea that the world has just gotten a whole lot more dangerous...