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kiev4am (kiev4am) wrote in scans_daily,

Oh God, 'Transfer of Power.' I have to come in off-topic a bit and defend the Authority here. The trouble with Millar's run is that it was so anvilicious and obnoxious that it's often what people remember as the 'definitive' Authority. Millar's Authority are swaggering jerks with barely a single social conscience between them; but that's not how they were originally conceived by Warren Ellis, or how they've been defined by several subsequent and (IMO) better writers than Millar. In Ellis' run, and Ed Brubaker's, and Abnett & Lanning's, for example, there are plenty of instances of one or other character wondering about the body count or the rightness of what they're doing and (crucially) not being a flippant asshole about it. There are whole story arcs devoted to dismantling what Millar did to the team both as a concept and as characters.

(note: this is not in any way to have a go at the original poster for using that page from 'ToP' - it makes the intended point very well! I'm just saying that Millar's run was just one run and that a lot of other authors, including the book's creator, made the Authority a less brattish and more interesting bunch of characters. Taking the whole series into account, I think Millar put a lot of people off a really good book, and that's a shame.)