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halloweenjack (halloweenjack) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-14 19:56:00

Entry tags:

char: apollo, char: engineer/angela spica, char: jenny sparks, char: kaizen gamorra, char: midnighter, creator: bryan hitch, creator: warren ellis, group: authority, series: one perfect moment week

One Perfect Moment (times three): The Authority
OK, I'm very late to the party, but I feel utterly justified in posting this (and making it so big) because, unless I'm mistaken, no one has posted any Authority bits yet. My opinion of Warren Ellis' work, particularly some of his later stuff, is mixed, but I think that his original Authority run with Bryan Hitch has him at the top of his game, and each of the three arcs has a Perfect Moment. (Big images follow. Apologies in advance for poor image quality and/or any fubars; first time posting this sort of thing to IJ.)

From the first arc: The Authority are fighting a Fu Manchu-type named Kaizen Gamorra. He has an island with a forcefield that Superman would bounce off of; The Midnighter has the Carrier, a thirty-five-mile-long dimension-hopping ship. Guess who wins?

From the second arc: They're fighting an alternate-universe Britain, and Apollo has exhausted his solar-energy reserves. Jenny Sparks is going to teleport him high in the Earth's atmosphere, betting that he can recharge before he goes splat on the ground.

D'awww...

From the third arc: they're fighting God, who is a pyramid-shaped giant space turd. They need to go to the moon to check something out.

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	jlroberson 2009-06-14 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	Well, moments like that are easy to find with Ellis, because his mainstream characters have an annoying habit of spending most of their time explaining who and what they are. (Reply to this)

	shanejayell 2009-06-14 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	As a series, the book kinda got lost in the "we must make each threat new and scarier" but the first three stories were gold. :) (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-06-14 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	and now I'm crying. (Reply to this)

	bean_montag 2009-06-14 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	There can never be too much Authority. Love this book! Thanks for putting it up. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ninjapeps 2009-06-15 12:05 am UTC (link)
	I really need to find a copy of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	l_arlesienne 2009-06-15 05:32 am UTC (link)
	Same here. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	moneyless_jew 2009-06-15 12:28 am UTC (link)
	So wonderful. And this book is unrecognizable now. Stormwatch too. Wildcats also. I wish they'd stop. (Reply to this)

	proteus_lives 2009-06-15 12:45 am UTC (link)
	I never got caught up in the whole "Authority is ZOMG" trend that ran through the early 2000s. All the characters were so, "meh" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sianmink 2009-06-15 01:08 am UTC (link)
	It's possible you'd have needed to read Ellis's run on Stormwatch that ran up to the start of Authority as well, where the characters were all introduced and he turned the whole damn, up until then, fairly boring and formula 90's edgy superhero Stormwatch comic on its head. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bean_montag 2009-06-15 01:42 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, actually they do say that a lot. (Reply to this) (Parent)

20thcenturyvole
2009-06-15 02:29 am UTC (link)

Aww. See, this is why I love The Authority: they act like human beings with awesome superpowers, instead of lantern-jawed Heroes-with-a-capital-H or grimdark Batman clones. Midnighter thinks being able to take down truly evil people is the most awesome job in the world; he and Apollo are always going to worry about each other; Angie never loses her awe of the world, and what she can do in it. The only character I never really got a feel for was Jack - somehow, he never seemed to develop a personality.

('Course, the whole human beings with superpowers thing means they are occasionally arrogant pricks, but still. I like it.)

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	icon_uk 2009-06-15 05:24 am UTC (link)
	I like the Engineer faking her own NASA conversations, I probably would too. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-06-15 09:45 am UTC (link)
	Absolutely. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mxlm 2009-06-15 05:53 am UTC (link)
	I adored Ellis' Authority. Yes, including these sequences. (Reply to this)

	grazzt 2009-06-15 08:49 am UTC (link)
	You know, there are times when superheroes drag planets. There are times when they damage the very fabric of space-time. But it's hard to find a moment that more encapsulates the sheer wonder of superhero comics better than that panel of Angie on the moon. (Reply to this)

	shadowlongknife 2009-06-15 11:27 am UTC (link)
	Yes. This. This is why I love the Authority. And refuse to acknowledge the mean-spirited shit that Mark Millar wrote when he took over, and why I will give anything Warren writes at least a trial run. (Reply to this)

	Just passing through to admire Hitch's art jazzypom 2009-06-15 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	Jimney Cricket, the man can draw. (Reply to this)

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