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DC Anniversary Celebrations
WildStorm: A Celebration of 25 Years
Celebrate DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee's industry-changing imprint, WildStorm, with WILDSTORM: A CELEBRATION OF 25 YEARS!
In 1992, Jim Lee shook the comics industry by striking out on his own and creating his a publishing imprint, which he dubbed WildStorm. With such critically acclaimed titles as WILDC.A.T.S., GEN13, WETWORKS, DEATHBLOW and STORMWATCH, WildStorm quickly became one of the most successful publishers around. Talents such as Lee, J. Scott Campbell, Whilce Portacio, Warren Ellis and Brett Booth became household names with their unbelievable work, all of which was fostered under this revolutionary new imprint. This hardcover collects some of the greatest stories from the glorious 25-year history of WildStorm!
Celebrating the historic 25th anniversary of the WildStorm imprint, this anthology graphic novel collects a senses-shattering blend of new content, hand-picked reprints and a select number of never-before-seen extras.
In 1992 a revolution was kicked off by superstar creator Jim Lee when he launched his game-changing publishing imprint, and the modern comic book market was forever altered. WildStorm Productions would go on to help revolutionize the industry and launch the careers of many top creators, including such names as Warren Ellis, Gary Frank, J. Scott Campbell, Adam Hughes, Brett Booth, Whilce Portacio, Tim Sale, Bryan Hitch, Dustin Nguyen John Cassaday, Humberto Ramos and countless others. Over the course of the last 25 years, the imprint, creators and characters have evolved in many ways, but will never be forgotten.
It collects a senses-shattering blend of all-new original short stories featuring classic characters and creative teams in The Authority: Requiem, by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch; Backlash, written and pencilled by Brett Booth; Deathblow, by Brandon Choi and illustrated by Jim Lee; WildC.A.T.s, written by Christos Gage and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen and Richard Friend; World's End/Majestic, written by Dan Abnett and illustrated by Neil Googe; Gen 13: Generation Millennial, written and pencilled by J. Scott Campbell; plus hand-picked reprints from WildC.A.T.s, The Authority, The Eye of the Storm Annual and a select number of never-before-seen extras.
In 1992, Jim Lee shook the comics industry by striking out on his own and creating his a publishing imprint, which he dubbed WildStorm. With such critically acclaimed titles as WILDC.A.T.S., GEN13, WETWORKS, DEATHBLOW and STORMWATCH, WildStorm quickly became one of the most successful publishers around. Talents such as Lee, J. Scott Campbell, Whilce Portacio, Warren Ellis and Brett Booth became household names with their unbelievable work, all of which was fostered under this revolutionary new imprint. This hardcover collects some of the greatest stories from the glorious 25-year history of WildStorm!
Celebrating the historic 25th anniversary of the WildStorm imprint, this anthology graphic novel collects a senses-shattering blend of new content, hand-picked reprints and a select number of never-before-seen extras.
In 1992 a revolution was kicked off by superstar creator Jim Lee when he launched his game-changing publishing imprint, and the modern comic book market was forever altered. WildStorm Productions would go on to help revolutionize the industry and launch the careers of many top creators, including such names as Warren Ellis, Gary Frank, J. Scott Campbell, Adam Hughes, Brett Booth, Whilce Portacio, Tim Sale, Bryan Hitch, Dustin Nguyen John Cassaday, Humberto Ramos and countless others. Over the course of the last 25 years, the imprint, creators and characters have evolved in many ways, but will never be forgotten.
It collects a senses-shattering blend of all-new original short stories featuring classic characters and creative teams in The Authority: Requiem, by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch; Backlash, written and pencilled by Brett Booth; Deathblow, by Brandon Choi and illustrated by Jim Lee; WildC.A.T.s, written by Christos Gage and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen and Richard Friend; World's End/Majestic, written by Dan Abnett and illustrated by Neil Googe; Gen 13: Generation Millennial, written and pencilled by J. Scott Campbell; plus hand-picked reprints from WildC.A.T.s, The Authority, The Eye of the Storm Annual and a select number of never-before-seen extras.
300 pages, Hardcover
First published October 31, 2017
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Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.
He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.
Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.
He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.
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May 12, 2019
I recently read Ellis' revamp of this universe and some of its characters in The Wild Storm, so I thought it would be cool to check out the source material. A friend pointed me in the direction of this collection as a good place to start, and here we are.
This is a sampler. Not a cohesive story.
And for what it is, it's very enjoyable.
Except for the black and white stuff. I know some of you love this, but I've never enjoyed it when they pull the color. To me, after one page it gets tedious to look at and my eyes get bored.
But Anne, don't you want to look at the lines the artist drew before the colorist put his stamp on it?
No. No, I do not.
It's a personal preference and I find issues like this just as annoying as I find the assholes who hand out carob coated raisins on Halloween. Carob isn't a viable substitute for chocolate. Ever. And raisins are just gross, so stop it.
I didn't know who most of these guys were, but it didn't really matter. You get a glimpse of some of the more (I assume) popular characters and a look at what they do, who they work with, and why. Some of the stories are old, some are new, and some of what's available is simply a short bio for a hero or a team.
While I'd love to read about some of these guys a bit more in-depth, this allowed me to get a decent peek at the larger Wildstorm universe. If you're at all curious, this really isn't a bad place to start.
This is a sampler. Not a cohesive story.
And for what it is, it's very enjoyable.
Except for the black and white stuff. I know some of you love this, but I've never enjoyed it when they pull the color. To me, after one page it gets tedious to look at and my eyes get bored.
But Anne, don't you want to look at the lines the artist drew before the colorist put his stamp on it?
No. No, I do not.
It's a personal preference and I find issues like this just as annoying as I find the assholes who hand out carob coated raisins on Halloween. Carob isn't a viable substitute for chocolate. Ever. And raisins are just gross, so stop it.
I didn't know who most of these guys were, but it didn't really matter. You get a glimpse of some of the more (I assume) popular characters and a look at what they do, who they work with, and why. Some of the stories are old, some are new, and some of what's available is simply a short bio for a hero or a team.
While I'd love to read about some of these guys a bit more in-depth, this allowed me to get a decent peek at the larger Wildstorm universe. If you're at all curious, this really isn't a bad place to start.
December 11, 2017
Wildstorm deserves better than this. What calls itself a celebration of Wildstorm ends up looking like a collection of 'director's cut' features from a couple issues, paired with some admittedly nice new short stories by Wildstorm alumni. Oh, and lots of promotional art. There's no real history, no sense of how the titles worked together or stood apart, major series don't even get mentioned (the America's Best Comics line get 2 pages, and Promethea is not even mentioned; Astro City gets a single page; Global Frequency not mentioned), and there's no real time line - the book hardly even mentions what the 25 years are (It's 1992 to 2017, for the record). Wildstorm did some amazing things and brought several indelible characters to life (The Authority, Gen13, WildCATs, Planetary, Tom Strong, etc.). But there's no work done to a) identify all the creations, or b) highlight WHAT Wildstorm brought to the table to transform comics. What's here isn't bad per se, just weak because of all the lost potential.
May 29, 2018
I'm more than a little cynical when it comes to anniversary books in any medium. Usually it's a lot of self congratulations and very little new, and for me, interesting material.
So good for Jim Lee and company in regards to this little bit of comics history. There were three new stories that stick in my memory at this point. The Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch piece was everything their run on the The Authority was, and while it is not ground breaking now it reminds me how much better it was than Millar's work (without the editorial fights between Millar and PTB, still wasn't that good).
The Grant Morrison Wildcats piece built upon Joe Casey's much underappreciated run on the title. A shame we will not ever get to see how this would have played out.
The Worldstorm preview/postscript (yes, it was both) was interesting and makes me wonder what the "event" series was like.
So good for Jim Lee and company in regards to this little bit of comics history. There were three new stories that stick in my memory at this point. The Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch piece was everything their run on the The Authority was, and while it is not ground breaking now it reminds me how much better it was than Millar's work (without the editorial fights between Millar and PTB, still wasn't that good).
The Grant Morrison Wildcats piece built upon Joe Casey's much underappreciated run on the title. A shame we will not ever get to see how this would have played out.
The Worldstorm preview/postscript (yes, it was both) was interesting and makes me wonder what the "event" series was like.
December 15, 2017
This reads as more of a hodgepodge than a celebration. There's a lot of enjoyable material here but this collection is decidedly light on substantive new work. This is a fun read but it doesn't quite satisfy.
November 9, 2017
A treasure trove of Wildstorm bon mots both old and brand new. Never a dull moment.
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May 2, 2020A celebration, or maybe better say commemoration, of the imprint which against all odds managed to be part of, and embody the worst of, both nineties Image and 21st century DC – and yet also give rise to some absolutely amazing comics along the way. This isn't something I'd ever have considered getting were it not in one of Comixology's more drastic sales, precisely because of how much of the tat I knew it would include (the first issue of WildCATs – now in monochrome! Pin-ups of grim'n'gritty male heroes with pouches and female heroes wearing very little, all of them anatomically improbable! New stories revisiting characters I was perfectly happy having missed the first time, including one who has the cheek to crack wise about the dialogue in bad nineties comics, even as the story embodies it, and another running through some tired lines about how nineties kids were much cooler than millennials!).
But, it also has some of the classics. Not all of them – of the post-Authority boom years, The Establishment and especially the grossly underrated The Monarchy are entirely absent, and Planetary only gets a pin-up. And that's without even getting into the arm's length America's Best Comics line, left horribly underrepresented by what one can only assume is a combination of rights issues and bad blood. Never mind: the first new Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch Authority story since 1999 is here, and yes, its reshaping of the superhero landscape wasn't an entirely good thing, but what paradigm shift is? Without it we'd never have had the MCU, to name but one example, and reading this revisit left me with a definite lump in my throat. We also get the first official publication of the original versions of the first two Mark Millar/Frank Quitely issues, notoriously fucked with by what at the time we considered terrible DC editorial (what sweet summer children we were). Obviously times have changed, and they feel very puerile in places, but their no-holds-barred joy in seeing superheroes who don't stop at fighting off alien invaders, but demand that Earthly tyrants also face the music, still packs a punch. All the more so for how horribly wrong Midnighter's prediction that the 21st century is a bad time to be a bastard reads now; it's painfully clear that, in our own timeline, the worst elements of America must have succeeded in snuffing or capturing the Spirit of the 21st Century at birth.
There's a reprint, too, of a short Sleeper story, reminding us that despite all the other work they've done together since, it was very probably the peak of the Brubaker/Phillips collaborations, and the never-before-collected first and only issue of Grant Morrison and Jim Lee's wonderful, doomed WildCATs run. "I want to see beautiful people doing impossible things", said Morrison at the time when promoting this, which of course these days covers the idea of going to the pub with one's friends. But it still reads like a brave first step in addressing the question, if most 'adult' superhero books are really adolescent, then what would genuinely adult superheroes look like? Granted, I wouldn't have chosen Jim Lee as the artist to render that. Granted, the previously unseen script for the #2 that never followed has, within eight pages, two separate female characters introduced as a cross between Thatcher and Hillary Clinton. Granted, in the series pitch which follows, the whole plotline about the Daemonites outbreeding the natives and taking over Khera reads very Great Replacement. And granted above all that nowadays, the idea of any CEO, even a benevolent robot one, being the best hope for world peace feels like the most unquestioning strand of Elon Musk porn. Despite all that it still feels like it could have been a lot of fun, especially if it had existed when it was supposed to. And from the perspective of 2020, it's disturbingly prescient to see one of the villains in a 2006 pitch described as Donald Trump crossed with Rupert Murdoch, and determined not to let progressive interlopers, or any damn fool idea of 'saving the world', disrupt the continuation of capitalist worst practice.
Inevitably, the book ends with a whimper, as the imprint is shuttered and a few of its characters are misguidedly migrated into the rebooted, ruined DCU post-Flashpoint. But there's still a glimmer of hope; it came out when Ellis was then separating the Wildstorm material out again into a new line. Which, of course, has since ground to a halt, even before the rest of comics and the world more generally did. Likewise, the last original story in the book, set in the aftermath of Wildstorm's final, depressing crossover, sees Majestic finding hope among the ruins, telling himself it could have been worse. And likewise, looked at from life among our own ruins, not to mention Wildstorm's, that now feels painfully naive.
But, it also has some of the classics. Not all of them – of the post-Authority boom years, The Establishment and especially the grossly underrated The Monarchy are entirely absent, and Planetary only gets a pin-up. And that's without even getting into the arm's length America's Best Comics line, left horribly underrepresented by what one can only assume is a combination of rights issues and bad blood. Never mind: the first new Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch Authority story since 1999 is here, and yes, its reshaping of the superhero landscape wasn't an entirely good thing, but what paradigm shift is? Without it we'd never have had the MCU, to name but one example, and reading this revisit left me with a definite lump in my throat. We also get the first official publication of the original versions of the first two Mark Millar/Frank Quitely issues, notoriously fucked with by what at the time we considered terrible DC editorial (what sweet summer children we were). Obviously times have changed, and they feel very puerile in places, but their no-holds-barred joy in seeing superheroes who don't stop at fighting off alien invaders, but demand that Earthly tyrants also face the music, still packs a punch. All the more so for how horribly wrong Midnighter's prediction that the 21st century is a bad time to be a bastard reads now; it's painfully clear that, in our own timeline, the worst elements of America must have succeeded in snuffing or capturing the Spirit of the 21st Century at birth.
There's a reprint, too, of a short Sleeper story, reminding us that despite all the other work they've done together since, it was very probably the peak of the Brubaker/Phillips collaborations, and the never-before-collected first and only issue of Grant Morrison and Jim Lee's wonderful, doomed WildCATs run. "I want to see beautiful people doing impossible things", said Morrison at the time when promoting this, which of course these days covers the idea of going to the pub with one's friends. But it still reads like a brave first step in addressing the question, if most 'adult' superhero books are really adolescent, then what would genuinely adult superheroes look like? Granted, I wouldn't have chosen Jim Lee as the artist to render that. Granted, the previously unseen script for the #2 that never followed has, within eight pages, two separate female characters introduced as a cross between Thatcher and Hillary Clinton. Granted, in the series pitch which follows, the whole plotline about the Daemonites outbreeding the natives and taking over Khera reads very Great Replacement. And granted above all that nowadays, the idea of any CEO, even a benevolent robot one, being the best hope for world peace feels like the most unquestioning strand of Elon Musk porn. Despite all that it still feels like it could have been a lot of fun, especially if it had existed when it was supposed to. And from the perspective of 2020, it's disturbingly prescient to see one of the villains in a 2006 pitch described as Donald Trump crossed with Rupert Murdoch, and determined not to let progressive interlopers, or any damn fool idea of 'saving the world', disrupt the continuation of capitalist worst practice.
Inevitably, the book ends with a whimper, as the imprint is shuttered and a few of its characters are misguidedly migrated into the rebooted, ruined DCU post-Flashpoint. But there's still a glimmer of hope; it came out when Ellis was then separating the Wildstorm material out again into a new line. Which, of course, has since ground to a halt, even before the rest of comics and the world more generally did. Likewise, the last original story in the book, set in the aftermath of Wildstorm's final, depressing crossover, sees Majestic finding hope among the ruins, telling himself it could have been worse. And likewise, looked at from life among our own ruins, not to mention Wildstorm's, that now feels painfully naive.
November 25, 2017
I remember when WildC.A.T.S. came out 25 years ago. A slew of titles, artists, writers came about from the Wildstorm imprint/universe. Some new stories, along with reprints of old ones, but I wish there was more of a history/timeline of the 25 years. Big storylines that were featured throughout the 25 years seemed just haphazardly spread out here and there with little information. A clear breakdown of the title, how many issues, who worked on it, what titles it inspired, would've been great. The new stories were all too short and brief. If they were purposely left on a cliffhangerish note, then maybe hype up that it'll be a series soon.
May 30, 2024
Antología que celebra los 25 años de Wildstorm que leí cuando ya iba por sus 30.
June 5, 2018
Rather than a genuine celebration (which would have featured retrospective interviews) this instead feels like a random assembly of nostalgia. The Wildstorm universe was most innovative, irreverent and best looking mainstream imprint in comics history (although NuMarvel and Vertigo come close, imo).
As such, this book should have been so much more. This is ultimatley just a lot of pin-ups, short stories and providing closure via a reprint of WildCats #1, a few stories featuring characters and teams I didn't know anything about, an "unfinished" pin-up for Astro City, double page spreads for Image Founders or teams, an actually nice coda for The Authority by Warren Ellis & Hitch, two issues of Mark Millar's Authority Run (and the most problematic issues to boot), a pretty nice meta take on Wildcats 2.0 and 3.0, Morrison's Worldstorm Proposal,
So it's a nice little ensemble piece. But it could have been more, just like the line itself.
But this was the company that started "Eye of the Storm" the first mature superhero line, it had BKV (Ex Machina), Alan Moore (the ABC Universe), Warren Ellis (Planetary, Global Frequency, Storm Watch, The Authority, Red), Ed Brubaker (Sleeper), Joe Casey (Mr. Majestic, Wildcats 2.0 and 3.0), World's End-potentially the first post-apocalyptic superhero universe, Gail Simone (Welcome to Tranquility, Garth Ennis (Midnighter), Adam Warren (Gen 13), The Winter Men, A God Somewhere (John Arcudi), James Robinson, Brian Wood (DV8),
But they hardly mention the ABC Universe (and leave out Promethea altogether), and the celebration seems inconsistent at best.
But man--that was a good universe and I wish it was still going strong, even though Warren is doing solid work with "The Wild Storm".
As such, this book should have been so much more. This is ultimatley just a lot of pin-ups, short stories and providing closure via a reprint of WildCats #1, a few stories featuring characters and teams I didn't know anything about, an "unfinished" pin-up for Astro City, double page spreads for Image Founders or teams, an actually nice coda for The Authority by Warren Ellis & Hitch, two issues of Mark Millar's Authority Run (and the most problematic issues to boot), a pretty nice meta take on Wildcats 2.0 and 3.0, Morrison's Worldstorm Proposal,
So it's a nice little ensemble piece. But it could have been more, just like the line itself.
But this was the company that started "Eye of the Storm" the first mature superhero line, it had BKV (Ex Machina), Alan Moore (the ABC Universe), Warren Ellis (Planetary, Global Frequency, Storm Watch, The Authority, Red), Ed Brubaker (Sleeper), Joe Casey (Mr. Majestic, Wildcats 2.0 and 3.0), World's End-potentially the first post-apocalyptic superhero universe, Gail Simone (Welcome to Tranquility, Garth Ennis (Midnighter), Adam Warren (Gen 13), The Winter Men, A God Somewhere (John Arcudi), James Robinson, Brian Wood (DV8),
But they hardly mention the ABC Universe (and leave out Promethea altogether), and the celebration seems inconsistent at best.
But man--that was a good universe and I wish it was still going strong, even though Warren is doing solid work with "The Wild Storm".
July 16, 2018
Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years is an anniversary compilation in celebrating the silver anniversary of the Wildstorm universe (2017). This collection features snippets from WildC.A.T.s, Stormwatch, The Authority, Wetworks, Gen13, and Dv8 throughout the years.
For the most part, I was somewhat disappointed in this anthology. I was expecting a somewhat in-depth preview of the various series that the Wildstorm universe has created. However, what we get was a mishmash of Director's Cut features for a couple issues, promotional art, and some new short stories from the alumni of Wildstorm with little organization and very little history of the Wildstorm Universe. It wasn't bad per se – it's just that it lacks the feel of history, information, and organization.
All in all, Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years is a somewhat nice anthology with a mismatch selection of a quarter of a century that the Wildstorm Universe has conceived. It is a somewhat good anthology for the aficionado, but not for the casual or newly initiated.
For the most part, I was somewhat disappointed in this anthology. I was expecting a somewhat in-depth preview of the various series that the Wildstorm universe has created. However, what we get was a mishmash of Director's Cut features for a couple issues, promotional art, and some new short stories from the alumni of Wildstorm with little organization and very little history of the Wildstorm Universe. It wasn't bad per se – it's just that it lacks the feel of history, information, and organization.
All in all, Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years is a somewhat nice anthology with a mismatch selection of a quarter of a century that the Wildstorm Universe has conceived. It is a somewhat good anthology for the aficionado, but not for the casual or newly initiated.
August 19, 2024
Once upon a time there were only two comic book companies.
Then more and more companies broke through the damn and then the flood started.
The great part of al the new publishing houses is they were created by comic book professionals so the stories tend towards being pretty damn good.
This book reprints a few key comic issues from the annals of Wildstorm.
Also focusing on some prominent characters.
While it is hard to cover all that history and all those characters I really they had spent more
time on the characters from the books I read.
Coming late to the party I mostly read STORMWATCH, PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.
I won't lie I mostly read the Warren Ellis books. They actually avoided the re start attempt as THE WILDSTORM which was just getting really good when Ellis ran into a spot of unpleasantness.
Then more and more companies broke through the damn and then the flood started.
The great part of al the new publishing houses is they were created by comic book professionals so the stories tend towards being pretty damn good.
This book reprints a few key comic issues from the annals of Wildstorm.
Also focusing on some prominent characters.
While it is hard to cover all that history and all those characters I really they had spent more
time on the characters from the books I read.
Coming late to the party I mostly read STORMWATCH, PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.
I won't lie I mostly read the Warren Ellis books. They actually avoided the re start attempt as THE WILDSTORM which was just getting really good when Ellis ran into a spot of unpleasantness.
December 19, 2017
I was hoping for something more like the D+Q anniversary book (with interviews, profiles, recollections, etc.), but instead got a glorified art book. The art was very nice, don't get me wrong, I was just hoping for more, is all. I did get some pretty great comics, though, including a new Deathblow story by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee, a new Wildcats 3.0 story by Christos Gage and Dustin Nguyen, and the first new Authority story by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch in almost twenty years. This also reprinted the first issue of Grant Morrison's aborted Wildcats reboot, and included the script for the second issue, and the pitch for the first twelve issues.
November 13, 2017
I won Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years by Jim Lee from Goodreads.
Fans of DC comics will treasure Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years. Showcasing the talents of the many artists who created a wide variety of characters and storylines, this volume spans the 25 years of Jim Lee's Wildstorm Productions. Complete with individual pages dedicated to a single artist's work, full comics in both black and white and color, and background information, this compilation offers a great deal for fans to pour over again and again.
Fans of DC comics will treasure Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years. Showcasing the talents of the many artists who created a wide variety of characters and storylines, this volume spans the 25 years of Jim Lee's Wildstorm Productions. Complete with individual pages dedicated to a single artist's work, full comics in both black and white and color, and background information, this compilation offers a great deal for fans to pour over again and again.
May 21, 2018
Siempre fui fan de WildStorm, con esos WildCats que siempre enseñaban los dientes o las sexys chicas de Campbell en Gen 13, que son inolvidables, y después converti a Planetary y Authority en dos de mis comics favoritos,Point Blank me enseño al grandioso Ed Bruebaker...muchas,muchas cosas y este especial de 25 años, tiene arte en original de Quitely y Jim Lee, una pequeña e increible historia de Authority por Ellis y Hitch, lo que es lo mejor de todo el tomo.Ah, y ese pequeño trailer de Sleeper, me recuerda que esa obra tengo que hacerla.
September 5, 2018
Overall neat stuff for fans of the line, but I was hoping for more context overall. Why were some of these pieces censored at the time? What's changed since then? How did WildStorm shift the goalposts for superhero fiction?
As it is, it's an interesting collection with some solid pieces. Some hold up better than others over the years, but for fans of the line it's worth a look. If you're completely new to WildStorm, it may not provide enough context for you to really get a feel for what the influence and impact of the company and the line were.
As it is, it's an interesting collection with some solid pieces. Some hold up better than others over the years, but for fans of the line it's worth a look. If you're completely new to WildStorm, it may not provide enough context for you to really get a feel for what the influence and impact of the company and the line were.
February 3, 2018
This book is targeted more to a nostalgic audience than one newly discovering the WildStorm universe,e so I felt a little out in the cold. I liked seeing the first issues and short bios, plus it's always a treat to see unpublished Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (though not, alas, together). I did get the sense that the WildStorm imprint was bursting with ideas, but I didn't get a clear sense of what all those ideas were or how they began to fit together over the years.
May 2, 2020
Gives a good idea of what the Wildstorm universe was all about as well as a proper treatment for writing comic book scripts. I found the latter part more educational than interesting.
Side note: where the wild storms that appeared in Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitain referring to this comic line?
Side note: where the wild storms that appeared in Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitain referring to this comic line?
July 13, 2021
Una genial antología de la entrañable Wildstorm que incluye tanto material clásico (que en algunos casos tengo hasta tres veces) como unas pocas historias inéditas muy disfrutables y bocha de ilustraciones de personajes del sello, incluyendo un par de mi favorito ABC.
Muy recomendable para quienes ya conozcan Wildstorm de antes y quieran pegarle una nostálgica repasada.
Muy recomendable para quienes ya conozcan Wildstorm de antes y quieran pegarle una nostálgica repasada.
February 19, 2018
Some nice pin-ups, and the new Ellis/Hitch Authority short is good, heck even the Backlash one is better than expected. Interesting to read the script for Morrison's second issue of Wildcats (which feels dated), as well as the pitch for the run. It's a nostalgia package.
December 10, 2018
7/10
Not bad, a good was to remember some oldoes but goodies :) could be more coherent though...
Not bad, a good was to remember some oldoes but goodies :) could be more coherent though...
November 15, 2021
Would be nice if more content was there.
December 25, 2025
Some nice little bits and pieces on here, but WildStorm deserves more. Also wow Mark Millar is the worst, as usual.
July 21, 2021
Antología con varias historias cortas ubicadas en el "Universo" Wildstorm, algunas de ellas inéditas.
A efectos de esta reseña, se incluirán en los shelves también personajes que aparezcan no en las historietas en sí sino en las ilustraciones explicativas que pululan por el libro.
A efectos de esta reseña, se incluirán en los shelves también personajes que aparezcan no en las historietas en sí sino en las ilustraciones explicativas que pululan por el libro.
October 12, 2017
If you're a fan of any of the comics from Wildstorm, or just the superhero comic industry in general, this is one you must check out. This book is filled with great stories and even more amazing art in a celebration of this publisher. I honestly picked it up to flip through it a little bit before bed and was at the end of the book before I realized it. I could not stop. I have been a fan of a few titles by the publisher and enjoyed the read but really I can not say enough about the art. There are so many different styles from so many different talents that the book is a feast for the eyes. It's no surprise that this publisher had been around for 25 years. Here's to many more!
I would like to thank the publisher, authors, artists, and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.
I would like to thank the publisher, authors, artists, and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.
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October 25, 2017am still looking forward to its arrival. the cover art looks great.
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