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I am indulging myself in re-re-reading the 1st Authority TPB, a super-human team where the archetypal reference of each character was made simply evident, and quite straigthly, in issue 1:
Apollo, the sun king,
Midnighter, night's bringer of war,
Engineer, the maker,
Doctor, the shaman,
Jack Hawksmoor, the god of the cities
Swift, the winged huntress
Jenny Sparks, the spirit of the twentieth century
I remember when I first approached the series (1999?) without having ever heard or read about Stormwatch, that it was precisely this explicit reference to archetypes that demanded me to make a self-conscious step before joyfully immersing in the read, since my initial reaction was "who -and why- in hell are these guys??", as I was so much used to the standard biographical opening where you learn that the "superhero" was "bitten by a superpowered insect", and especially for Jenny and Hawksmoor, which portray archetypes that as far as I know have not been "embodied" by a fictional character outside this comic-book, and indeed belong to an interesting Warren-Ellis's copyrighted cosmogony.
In fact, the series evolved pretty much without disclosing practically anything about the "origins" -they are supposeddly to be learned in an alternate title- and the characters remained pretty archetypal themselves, even perpetually dwelling in their own interdimensional limbo, from which they can be anywhere in the world at any time they want.
I will now necessarily ask to the distinguished board of attending magi: comments? and, anybody worked with them? |
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, various action pics throughout the series, and the last issue’s image of our hero being dumped into a black iron prison. That last one you may find helpful any time you’re feeling particularly down or stuck or hopeless – you can use “Welcome to the capital city of the New Kree Empire” as your post-hypnotic cue…