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Authority Version 2.0: don't click if you don't wanna know who survives...

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:23 / 21.07.01

Thank you, Mr Fabry.

CameronStewart

13:25 / 21.07.01

Generally I like Fabry's work, but that's just ugly. Remember when Apollo was actually meant to be a good-looking man?

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:41 / 21.07.01

That was before Frank Q got his hands on him "he looks a bit like Richard Gere... if someone had SQUISHED HIS HEAD!"

I dunno, I think I like it... Jack Hawksmoor looks great, if a bit too much like Jesse Custer...

Apparently Azzarello's first story will see the team having an attack of conscience? 'Bout time, or missing the point? I think I vote the former...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:39 / 21.07.01

So, the shock news about the Authority is... none of them died after all? Whodathoughtit? Still, I'm collecting it in trades so, isn't it about time number three was released?

And Glenn Fabry draws someone looking like Jesse Custer shock? It amazes me that anyone thinks he's that good, one of his early Outlaw Nation covers inexplicably had Tulip on the cover and his Kid Gloves didn't look much like who was inside the comic. I suppose we should be grateful that tulip hasn't become one of the Authority, but isn't bird-gal supposed to be Asian?

Ganesh

14:48 / 21.07.01

I agree with Cameron; that just looks pig-ugly.

rizla mission

14:53 / 21.07.01

what's going on anyway? Last one I read they all got killed and replaced by new corporate-sponsored ones.. I dunno, bloody superheros, kill'em, bring em back, kill em, bring em back...

H3ct0r L1m4

02:33 / 24.07.01

Thanks for posting. The fanboy in me was eagering to know.

But the only new fact here (apart from Hawksmoor's new hairdo and Midnighter's loss of weight) is that Apollo now makes this a better world... with no clothes on.

Glad (?!) to know they'll keep the characters (would anyone think WildStorm was going to trash their best franchise?), but this is just a rushed Fabry painting in a bad Joe Jusko day.

[ 24-07-2001: Message edited by: Vortex09 ]

CameronStewart

11:36 / 24.07.01

Midnighter looks like some weedy comic fan dressed up as the Midnighter in a comic convention costume parade...

Ronald Thomas Clontle

11:44 / 24.07.01

The Engineer looks quite a lot like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz there , doesn't she?

Is this the cover to an upcoming issue, or a trade collecting that past whatever issues?

Man, I thought at least *one* of them would have died for good. Honestly, I was kinda hoping Swift, Apollo, or The Midnighter would be the ones to go. The Doctor and Jack are my personal favorites...

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:49 / 24.07.01

*caves to consensus*

Okay, okay, it's shit. I don't know what I was thinking. It's bad like Alex Ross...

Ellis

11:55 / 24.07.01

Am I the only one who likes Alex Ross?

Marvels was brilliant, (although that may have more to do with Kurt Busiek's intricate Geek-God knowledge of the Marvel universe than Ross' art). It really did have that sense of awe and wonder that most comics lack.

And Kingdom Come looked nice too.

I wish he would do more series and not just covers.

Dee Vapr

14:16 / 24.07.01

Wh... why is Apollo wearing lipstick?

Jack Fear

14:32 / 24.07.01

%Cos he's a fag, duh.%

No, no... have no fear. Though he is a straight white guy, writer Brian Azzarello will, I'm sure, bring to these gay characters the same finesse and subtlety he's demonstrated with his black and Latino characters...

Oh, shit.

Sax

18:41 / 24.07.01

Oh dear, back to being embarassed leaving my comics lying around the house again.

Ganesh

18:45 / 24.07.01

It's not 'bad like Alex Ross'; I presume you're referring to the 'photorealistic muscle' style? Alex Ross does that stuff well. Fabry's cover is just plain bad.

King Mob

19:10 / 24.07.01

I think it's mostly my dislike of Fabry's art that has kept me away from Preacher all these years.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:05 / 24.07.01

Sorry, that should have read "like bad Alex Ross"...

Cochese

22:05 / 24.07.01

So the new team's got Honor Blackman, Alan Partidge with wings and the T-1000 in it? Cool!

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