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What was the Eye of the storm tag? What titles were published under that?
I believe that was the era of - primarily, from a critical standpoint at least - Sleeper and also-rans such as Casey's WildCATS 3.0 and Micah Ian Wright-then(!)'s Stormwatch. And also Robbie Morrison's generally either panned or unread Authority.
In fact, that's it, I think. So Sleeper was good, but I personally preferred the era where Planetary was still worth a read, Millar was doing his best-ever work (I've read little of his Swamp Thing, so am open to contradiction on that score) on The Authority (first arc) and Adam Warren was writing and occasionally drawing Gen13. Sometimes Kaare Andrews did too, and that was nice. Also, The Monarchy had seemed like an interesting book in a Morrison-via-McDuffie kinda way for the first five issues or so.
Looking back, and I really loved that era of WS, almost 8-9 years past now, the whole notion of 'adult' superheroics seems somewhat discomfitting, but they're still strong books for the most part.
For now: I think the new WildCats book should be good, if it ever comes out ever again, and Midnighter's been pretty enjoyable (particularly the last issue by Gage & Leon) for the most part. Losing the mature readers tag is a little jarring, because the scripts seem as swear, or '#@*%', heavy as ever they were but obviously there's that censorship. I don't really miss what nudity there was - was there much? - and the black-strobe sexscene with Voodoo and Spartan (in WildCats #1 - praise its memory) was as salacious as any of that. |
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You know what's another guilty pleasure..?