Blog: Berkeley Place

This isn’t my average every day type GCOAT post. This one’s a doozy. If you don’t know, the story of The Authority started with Stormwatch and WildC.A.T.S. These were prototypical 1990s books: Big heavy muscles, big heavy storylines, action and noise. Some of the greatest creators of the times passed through it, including Jim Lee, Chris Claremont, Brandon Choi, Ron Marz, Alan Moore, Joe Casey, and Grant Morrison. But I was never a big fan of either title—until Warren Ellis arrived and completely dismantled Stormwatch, the U.N. team that oversaw super-powered threats both of Earthly and [...]