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If YOU wrote the Authority, vol. 2

The Damned Yankee

18:49 / 22.12.01

You get a call from the higher echelons of DC Comics, saying that they want YOU to write the next series for the Authority. Then they tell you how much you'll be paid to do it, and all of the little zeroes manage to convince you.

What stories would you do?

What chars would you introduce?

Who would you kill?

And please, if anyone's interested in answering this, PLEASE don't let it turn into another round of Ennis vs. Millar. Screw them! They're off the project, and you're on!

Matthew Fluxington

18:59 / 22.12.01

Well, I don't really have any desire to write The Authority, but I don't have a job, and the money would be nice along with the fact that writing The Authority could be fun, I think I would try to avoid the 'widescreen' stuff, and bring the comic down to earth a bit. I'd get rid of the 4 issue story-arch thing, and make it more of a soap opera, a la New X-Men. I'd focus mainly on Jack, The Engineer, The Doctor, and Swift, and put Midnighter and Apollo in the background because I don't find them as interesting. I think I'd have them spend a lot of time arguing about who they should go after, and debating the pros and cons of their actions. I would probably push the comic in a direction that would alienate all of the fans of it to date, and be fired after six issues or something...

19:09 / 22.12.01

I'd probably also tone down the widescreen, for at least the first story, which would be a four-issue one. The team is contacted by JAckson King, and it turns out that Flint from Stormwatch is missing. The former Stormwatch Black members feel a sense of loyalty, heightened by the fact that neither The Monarchy nor The Authority, with all their high-fallutin' powers, can find a trace of her. I'd turn it into a really noirish thriller, relying very little, if at all on their powers. Seedy, if you will.

After that a series of one-shots, much like happened occasionally during the Stormwatch run, highlighting various members. I want to see what the Doctor does in his off-time. And Swift. We've seen Jack and Angie on their own in the Wildstorm Summer Special. I'd like to focus on the others. Again, less widescreen, almost intimate, but gearing up for my last story arc.

The final issue of the one-shots ends with a bang. (not sure what yet. I'll let you know when I've written my proposal.) The last story arc returns to the BIG SUPER-HERO COMIC feel of the original series. 2 or 3 international terrorists seem to be co-operating in a calculated attack on various odd-seeming targets. Turns out they're being controlled by that alter-Authority from the Planetary/Authority one-shot to set up various gate points all over earth to crash the bleed and fuse everything into one big mess. Sort of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the dark side.

Anyway, that's just off the top of my head. I'm going to write up a proposal and send it to Wildstorm.

Zoom.

[ 22-12-2001: Message edited by: Captain Zoom ]

Robot Man Reformed

16:19 / 24.12.01

The Authority have gone missing.

Until one morning Apollo flies into a building and extracts the solar power within him to make the building collapse, afterwhich he swiftly disappears.

Apollo's lover, the Midnighter, is in the Middle East training the youth in the art of war, giving out of his blood to the redeemed and most promising survivors of the camp.

The Engineer is similarly giving out of her blood to the women. And in passtimes she engineers complicated machinery for future use.

Hawksmoor has been travelling to the key cities of the world, driving the level of intimacy with the weak spots to perfection.

The Doctor has been raising the childspirit of the 21st century in a key magnetic spot of the earth, where time flows differently, guiding her to become the best of her abilities. Given time, she will nudge the development of the world to scary times.

Swift has been infiltrating the politico-financial world, working uninterestedly with a superdesigned pseudo-superteam.

The Authority-in-hiding, working behind the scenes for years, have readied themselves after a chance encounter with the Schizoids. So it has been written, they will cause the downfall of the times, awakening the globe to a terrifying reality of madness.

19:29 / 24.12.01

Well jack fear hasn't said it, so i will...

FANBOYS !

Matthew Fluxington

20:32 / 24.12.01

Harumph!

After seeing Jack gush about the Lord of the Rings movie, it's going to be very hard to take his dismissal of superhero comics and its fans seriously from here on out.

I mean, REALLY!

01:17 / 25.12.01

Change Or Die II: The last Authority Story.

The Engineer creates a nanite that spreads quietly and quickly like a virus. Some of the major earth powers (already peeved at the Authority) send something much more horrible than Seth to stop them. The Midnighter, Apollo, Jack, and Swift have to keep it busy long enough for all human beings on the planet to be infected. Swift and Midnighter die. But the Engineer sends a signal to the nano-virus, sitting in the entire population of earth, prompting it to replicate. Flooding the cells of every man, woman, and child with billions of tiny machines and turning them into, well, super humans. Everyone will be able to fly, and create whatever they will out of thin air, they will feel safe and become nigh immortal. Of course economies and governments will quickly collapse and nobody will care. Enter the Doctor on hand to help his global village cope with the upgrade. The world would be a better place.

The End.

Pin

20:19 / 26.12.01

A small bridgeing issue between vol's I and II:

Someone tells Pin where to get Vol. I. He get's them, and then get's back to you on what Vol. II's like.

Matthew Fluxington

20:37 / 26.12.01

Issues 1-16 are available in the trades Under New Management and Relentless.

Apparently, sometime after March when Mark Millar's final storyline is completed, a third collection will be released, and the entire run of The Authority, minus the horrible fill-in issues by Tom Peyer, will be in those three volumes. Plus, for completists, there will the aforementioned Peyer storyline in another forthcoming trade, the Jenny Sparks trade, and all of those Stormwatch trades.