Authority: Infierno en la Tierra

by Mark Millar, Doselle Young, Tom Peyer

The Authority, now under Jack Hawksmoor's leadership following Jenny Sparks' death at the end of the 20th Century, face multiple foes such as a mad scientist and his army of superhumans who wanted to influence the 21st Century through Jenny Spark's successor Jenny Quantum, a previous Doctor who manipulated the Earth itself, and a duplicate team of superheroes modeled on the Authority that was created and backed by the G7 group of nations.


Collects THE AUTHORY #13-29

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics

416 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.

His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.

Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jenny Sparks is back!
Sort of. She was reborn when the old Jenny died, and the hunt is on to find the Spirit of the 21st Century before more nefarious forces get to her.



Much like the Ellis' Book One there are nothing but big world ending, universe-shattering battles happening over and over. To be honest, that's not really the draw of the series for me. You can feel everyone on the team starting to slide sideways morally. They run things now, they know what's best, the end.
And for the time being, they're not exactly wrong to put a stop to the inhumane treatment doled out by corrupt systems of power.
You'd think in the end it would play out that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to make yourselves in charge of the world, but I guess that wasn't the point of this comic.



There are a few issues made up of one-shots by different authors that feature one of the members of the team. They vary.



Then there's a really interesting story at the end where The Authority gets wiped out, and a group of pretty terrible metahumans are given their power set and put in charge of keeping the status quo by the world's governments and corporations.
That was a fun way to end everything.



Some parts of this, though? It was a tad confusing. Not the main storylines, just things that happened in the past really. And I think that's because I've never read any of the older Stormwatch comics. As good as I think this run is, you kind of need to know what happened in this world previously to really get everything. I think I'm going to have to track down the older stuff if I want a complete picture, and would love any recommendations pointing me in the right direction.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mark Millar takes the writing baton from Warren Ellis for most of this volume. Where Ellis was like Muhammed Ali, jabbing and dancing around his opponent, looking lyrical and purty, Millar is more like Mike Tyson (in his prime, not the crazy-pants, ear-biting version), launching huge smoking uppercuts, going for maximum damage quickly.



Both Millar and Ellis skew super hero conventions via their work on The Authority, Vol. 1, but Millar, author of Kick-Ass, has a more brutal, bone-crunching black humored approach. Frank Quitely and his goony art does an apt job replacing Bryan “What emotion is this character trying to convey” Hitch.

The Authority (a mock-up of the Justice League), having dispatched alien and super villains in volume one, are now “policing” Earth, kicking dictator butt and fighting crime on a global scale.

And not with kid gloves.



This doesn’t sit well with the corporate monolithic international powers that control things, so first they send out a thinly veiled Avengers to combat the Authority. When that fails, they send in Gomer Pyle on roids to humiliate them.



Bottom line : I don’t remember seeing a parental warning on the cover of this volume, but, if there isn’t one, this one is not for the squeamish. Recommended for those of you who like your super hero stuff hard boiled, yet thoughtful.

[A.J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, this volume of The Authority was a lot better than the last, which I know is controversial since Mark Millar wrote it, but I thought he and Frank Quitely had an amazing run frankly. Millar put the team in situations with some real stakes, with some issues making my jaw drop to the floor wondering if The Authority would ever be the same as before.

In my review of the Ellis run, I said all the lore was cool but poorly utilized and just waiting for a writer to come in who used it right, and Millar was the first of many to do so. There’s a supervillain team sent by the government that’s basically an Evil Avengers, a horribly evil old foe of the Authority, and a hillbilly named Seth who was turned into a monstrous superhuman by the government. Each weird, but interesting foes that took more than just punching to end fights. There is still awesome action and gnarly gore, but there are also some solid character moments for some throughout.

While Frank Quitely doesn’t draw every single issue sadly, he does draw the biggest issues of the book, and the fill-in artists do a great job. The book was surprisingly consistent for how many different artist switch-ups there are. Millar’s writing for the team is pretty solid, with some moments he writes tending to go a little too far for my test. Certain situations are added to the book to make villains seem more awful, and they honestly didn’t need to be there and can be super distracting with how gross they are. Besides that, this is a pretty strong volume overall. It doesn't take away how nice it was reading three amazing arcs after three duds of ones.

I would recommend this over that shit Warren Ellis run any day of the week.

[Gavin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vol. 2 of the Authority takes Warren Ellis' great work on Vol. 1 (12 issues) and continues it through the Mark Millar filter. This could have gone either way really, but thankfully, this is a very strong follow up, with just enough change of feel and voice to make it different, yet similar enough to feel like a sequel, not a continuation of Ellis' work.

That being said, Millar is doing some of his strongest work here, given characters who can be more or less what he wants them to be. I feel like this was what gave him the confidence/idea/drive to do Ultimates. (Ultimates being the parallel universe version of the Marvel U Avengers/SHIELD/others. But mostly a classic Avengers in the way you've never seen them...The Ultimates) Read NOW if you haven't.

If Ultimates took things a bit too far, the Authority is a little better behaved, and usually has the best interests of humanity at heart.

Millar has a somewhat...juvenile? sense of humour, yet, so do I, I can be Shallow. (just like the best of us) So some of the jokes here were pretty good for that. Mostly the making fun of Superman/Batman in the guise of Apollo/Midnighter, the gay Superhero couple. That being said, by the end of the volume, it's actually this couple that provides the love story that's somewhat touching, to my surprise (and delight). But the best is the team that goes up against the Authority, who are an obvious riff on the classic Avengers...

There's even a magazine cover of Apollo and Midnighter, referred to as "The World's Finest Couple" another classic burn on Supes and Bats!

Like Ellis' volume, this collection has 3 separate 4 part storylines: The Nativity,Earth Inferno, Brave New World.

As with most things in 3s, the middle is the weak part here (might also have to do with not being Frank Quitely's artwork).

Nativity involves the Authority finding and guarding Baby Jenny Quantum (reincarnation of Jenny Sparks, Spirit of the 20th Century), and going up against a whole bunch of pretender teams.

Earth Inferno, the Earth itself is going nuts after everything that's happening, and the Doctor has to look for help from a previous Doctor...who's a genocidal Sociopath in super-prison...

Brave New World involves an attack on the Authority that replaces them with a more tame version with more powers, less benevolent morals, and who are owned by the 1% who run the world. The Authority acting as an authority over the whole world didn't sit well with the rest of humanity, even though much of it was beneficial on the whole.

I like the philosophical ideas examined in the book, through the guise of superheroes, and a lot of the ways things get solved are actually a LOT more interesting and smart than just punching and blasting things.

There's lots of Millar's personality here, especially in Midnighter, who's a badass mofo on the level with Batman with Wolverine morals. (ie. AWESOME). There's quite a few Midnighter moments in the book that made me go:



One of the best lines: Henchman: "Feels Kinda Weird Torching Civilians"
Bad Guy: "Civilians are civilized soldier. These people are French."



So. There's stuff to laugh at, stuff for insiders (anyone of the Shallow Readers should get a few of these), a few dated references (Bush, Gore, Clinton, etc.), some great action, interesting ideas, and most importantly, super characters who I actually care about.

I look forward to seeing the rest of the adventures of this gang, and especially when I see who else has written this series following: Brian Azzarello, Ed Brubaker, Grant Morrison, but then not such great ones...so that being said, read Ellis' and Millar's and decide from there what you'd like to do.

This still holds up pretty well over a decade later, which cannot be said for a lot of things in the comic universe...hell, DC will have rebooted 6 more times by then.

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[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

*checks front of book*
*checks front of book again*
No, this can't be right. I refuse to believe that I enjoyed a Mark Millar book this much. But it's true, this is even more fun and full of the widescreen action and amazing set pieces that made Warren Ellis' Authority run so iconic. Whilst the whole 'one arc gets derailed by the next arc' is kind of odd halfway through, this is a really solid read that is exactly how you can do superheroes in a world where there are basically no rules. I'm not a huge fan of the Quitely artwork for the most part, but the extra art from Dustin Nguyen and others is much easier on the eye. Very glad I've read this, even I'm still not sure it's actually by Millar and not someone pretending to be him in disguise.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm finding it very hard to rate this book, as I feel kind of morally compromised giving it 4 stars. On the one hand (the fun, entertainment-loving hand) this book is a full-speed action fest for the most part. It's a quick, blast of a read, with big, ridiculous world politics plots mixed in with superheroics by a bunch of hardcore activists who aren't afraid to murder anybody they see as wrong. It's a breath of fresh air, even today, a good 12 years since this Millar completed this story arc. It feels like he takes all the "superheroes don't kill" philosophy and just takes a big steaming piss on it and just does whatever he wants (thanks to Warren Ellis setting him up to do so in the previous volume).

On the other hand (the morally-conscious and perhaps oversensitive hand), you've got Millar's typical go-to "bad guy stuff:" the men are all intensely homophobic rapists who are shown or said to have small penises. The women are all vindictive whores. On top of the fact that Millar writes these traits so often that I feel a little skeeved out by him (even though it's his bad guys who act this way, it's still weird), it's also repetitive and starts to feel pretty uncreative. It's just, it feels like Millar doesn't know how to make someone seem evil without them being incredibly sexually disgusting in some way, and it gets tiresome.

Additionally, it is abundantly clear that Millar did not get the job done in the later Brave New World storyline, in which the Authority are very soundly defeated by a billion-dollar monstrosity sent by the G7. After one issue, the story grinds to a halt to be taken over by the Tom-Peyer-penned Transfer of Power, about the new Authority that the G7 set in place instead. This reeks of publication delays from Millar's end (or maybe his artist, but still). But anyway, any of my gripes with Millar are very quickly held up to the light here, because Peyer's writing is pretty terrible. The story jumps around all over the place and is nearly impossible to follow. I hadn't realized it was being written by a different person at first, and had to stop and check, because I thought Millar had suddenly had a stroke or something.

Turns out he hadn't, and luckily he returns for the final three issues of Brave New World, which do not in the least acknowledge anything that occurs in Transfer of Power, further proving that Transfer was shoved into the middle when they couldn't complete the other storyline for whatever reason. This is what leads me to give the series 4 stars: for all my worries about Millar's psyche or whatever, he really delivers the goods when it comes to execution. Top that off with Frank Quitely's incredible art (and Arthur Adams, who I was very impressed with), and you've got one hell of a fast-moving book.

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one craaazy book. Widescreen action, bigger-than-life characters, impossible stakes, and the writing... so wrong, and yet so great. This is one of my all-time favourites. The Nativity is a masterpiece that ranks as one of my favourite stories ever, Earth Inferno was okay - would've been better with 100% Quitely art, Brave New World was insane - in a good way, and Transfer of Power was a lot of fun.

But years ago I made the mistake of parting with the over-sized, slip-cased The Absolute Authority, Vol. 2 edition, and once in a while I'll kick myself over it. Imagine my immense pleasure to see it re-released - sort of - in December 2013 - albeit as this regular-sized hardcover. It more than makes up for the regular-sized pages by including the Transfer of Power story arc by Tom Peyer.


The Nativity - 5 stars

Mark Millar and Frank Quitely begin their run on the title, and right out of the gate you notice a change in the tone & the pace from the Ellis/Hitch run (it's darker - but also funnier, and it's faster). Fortunately for us fans of The Authority there's still plenty of violence to be found. In this story the team must rescue a baby (who is the reincarnation of Jenny Sparks, their former leader) from rip-offs of Marvel's Avengers and their creator, an evil Jack Kirby, who wants control of the baby so he can shape the events of the 21st century. 5 HUGE stars for this incredible story, one of my all-time favourites.


Earth Inferno - 3 stars

Frank Quitely only drew chapters 3 & 4 (Chris Weston drew chapters 1 & 2). If Quitely had drawn all 4 parts, this story would've earned 4 stars. Weston's art isn't bad per se, it's just... sufficient (and it also has a few scale issues). Hard to believe this is the same guy who drew The Filth. This Millar tale, while still violent and "shocking" (at least that's what he's going for) is pretty tame compared to The Nativity and Brave New World, which bookend his run on The Authority .


Brave New World - 4 stars & Transfer of Power - 3 stars

Kind of a strange setup: two 4-part story arcs, with the second story arc wedged between parts 1 & 2 of the first one. Mark Millar writes Brave New World (with art by Frank Quitely & Arthur Adams) and Tom Peyer writes the wedged-in Transfer of Power (with art by Dustin Nguyen).

The basic premise is that The Authority have pissed off the wrong people, comprised mainly of the G7's business interests & partners. The G7 send a cybernetically-enhanced and super-powered hillbilly after them, who seems at first to kill most of them - though later it is revealed that they've been subjected to a variety of humiliating ordeals: The Doctor gets used as a scratching stick, Apollo is used as a punching bag, Hawksmoor's been dumbed-down, etc.

Millar's first issue of Brave New World introduces us to this new, G7-approved Authority, and then Peyer's arc is all about the impostors and their adventures. Millar's last three issues of Brave New World (and on the series) come next and this is where the sh*t really hits the fan: the Midnighter turns the tables on the stand-ins, the original team is "resurrected" and the bad guys get what's coming to them.

Tom Peyer's arc kept the same tone as Millar's previous (and subsequent) issues, so the consistency was there in that sense; the impostor Authority were sufficiently fleshed out for the readers to get a good sense about who they were individually and what their respective particular quirks were. That just made it that much more satisfying when they got their due in the second half of Brave New World - though, admittedly, some were more deserving than others: Rush, for example, didn't really do much, so it's hard to feel anything when she gets killed off.

This arc is also notable for being the last story of The Authority before DC/Wildstorm toned it down (in a lot of ways) and it suffered a decline in popularity & readership.

[Markus Seaberry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exciting, interesting story, but good grief!!! Mark Millar was not held enough as a child.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, this volume bounced between many writers and artists. The writing was mostly fantastic, even when it wasn't Millar.

The art, though? Goodness. This book would be a SOLID five stars if the art weren't so off-putting. I don't know how they managed to use like five artists and none of them put out anything I liked. At best, it felt basic. At worst, some of these issues felt almost like parody. As if MAD Magazine were having a poke at the real book. It felt bizarre and out of place and sometimes even distorted. A shame the whole product didn't come together stylistically because the stories were SO goddam interesting and engaging. The writing always weighs heavier to me so it's still a four star effort, but it doesn't reach the heights of volume one.

[Pablo · Rating 2 out of 5]

La época de Millar me parece más imaginativa en sus historias que la de Ellis, si bien se ve igualmente lastrada por el exceso de acción sobre las ideas.

[Art · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is more like what superheroes would be like in the "real world." It's gritty and harsh and, in a way, believable.

[Gabriel Llagostera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Si la etapa de Ellis enfrentaba al grupo a amenazas fantásticas, incluido el mismo Dios, Millar lleva todo a la arena de la política, y acierta con el enfoque. Obviamente hubiera sido más fácil hacer lo mismo que ya había funcionado, sin arriesgar, pero acá Millar decide tomar ideas de Alan Moore y preguntarnos sobre la valía de un grupo de superhéroes en un mundo real. Aquí los verdaderos villanos son las corporaciones que ven en los héroes una amenaza para su poder, y actúan en consecuencia.

Otra cosa que resalta es el humor negro tan característico del autor, tanto en situaciones ridículas como en chistes críticos con personajes y referencias a la vida real. Millar se vale de los personajes para ataques a figuras del mundo real y a ciertas concepciones morales que pone en cuestión todo el tiempo. Siempre es disfrutable ver esas cosas en el cómic mainstream, y más cuando el cinismo de los personajes lo permite.

La etapa se ve cruzada por historias de Tom Peyer, que extrañamente las mezcla con las de Millar; más allá del cambio de dibujantes, ese cruce no afecta la coherencia de lo que se cuenta.

En definitiva, otra muy buena etapa del grupo, que cierra un ciclo muy alto desde la aparición de Ellis en Stormwatch, más allá de que los personajes sigan con otros autores que no han sabido estar a la altura.

[Eric T. Voigt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thnax, Marcus Coleman, for insisting I read this. The frames I glimpsed when he was flipping through this volume and confirming it was something he wanted me to read all make so much sense now. They were quite disturbing without context. The Mark Millar-written stories were my favorite, and the Frank Quitely-drawn panels were the style I liked most. Everyone else (Tom Peyer, Dustin Nguyen, Arthur Adams, and numerous other artists) did great work, too. The Re-Space scenery was wonderful; I was hoping for a lot more than I got of that. I'll go check out 'The Authority, Vol. 1' from the library sometime this morning. Haven't had my fill of these super-dudes.

[Terry · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Authority is a superhero team composed of costumed heroes who don’t want to save the world. Instead, they focus on making the world worth saving, overthrowing dictators and defending countries against their aggressive neighbors. None of this makes them popular with governments, corporations, or the rest of the earth’s elite. Collecting issues 13–29 of the early 2000s run of this series, this hardcover edition finds Superman and Batman analogs, gay couple Apollo and Midnighter, nanotech-augmented The Engineer, Jack “The King of Cities” Hawksmoor, and the rest of the team fighting against government-sponsored superassassins, mother nature, and an alternate version of themselves.

Verdict: Set apart from the traditional DC universe, The Authority is gleefully violent and refreshingly diverse, influencing modern titles like Garth Ennis’s The Boys and Mark Waid’s Irredeemable. Millar’s writing and Quitely’s art are fresh and relevant even more than a decade later. An excellent choice for mature readers.—Terry Bosky, Madison, WI

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[Nick Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

In contrast to all of the complex ideas that Warren Ellis displayed while writing The Authority, Mark Millar provides nothing of even the remotest interest or originality. For whatever reason, fake or pastiche versions of various characters seems to be the theme of every story, starting with parodies of the Avengers and X-Men as antagonists, followed by a previous version of the Doctor character as the villain, and finishing with an ersatz Authority that fights stand-ins for the Legion of Superheroes. All of the plots in the book are dull and scattered, with Millar seemingly trying harder to replicate the tone of Ellis' earlier work than the big, bold science-fiction plots. Unfortunately there's a failure in the tone as well, where Ellis' work read like it was intended for intelligent adults, while Millar was obviously taking the low road and trying to utilize the kind of "adult content" that appeals more to teenage boys.

The art is also a problem, with twelve different artists across seventeen comic book issues' worth of material. The most ballyhooed artist is Frank Quitely, whose appeal has always eluded me because everyone he draws looks oddly deformed and lumpy.

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just as the first volume of The Authority was pure mind-bending Warren Ellis weirdness, so too was the second volume pure meta violence-fetish Mark Millar. At times the "gosh, these superheroes sure aren't like the ones in comic books kids!" commentary was a bit much, especially in the first few issues. Then as we neared the end, the over-the-top offensiveness of it all likewise became too much. However, in between it all were some surprisingly good stories, some of which actually made me understand and like the characters themselves more than Ellis' weirdness cyphers they started out as. As an actual book, it held up well enough. As a revolutionary-in-its time artifact, it's fascinating. The final page's words were especially self-reflective; "We completely changed the landscape over the last twelves months. Superheroes walk different now. Superheroes talk different now. Even the people who disagreed with us have ended up following our lead. Guys who can hear atoms whizzing around just can't get away with ignoring screams for help from third world concentration camps anymore. We've changed things forever, Angie. There's no going back now."

[Stewart Tame · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite as much fun as the first volume, but still quality stuff. The series seems to lose its way a bit towards the middle of the book, but manages to come back strong for the finish. Part of the problem may have been the shifting creative teams. I notice that one of the later chapters is billed as being, "Part 2 of 4," but Part 1 is nowhere to be found. There isn't any obvious gap in the storyline, so either it wasn't important--a recap issue or somethig--or the confusion of shifting teams ran deeper than most.

[Andres Halden · Rating 2 out of 5]

The second half of this Authority series might be the most tryhard edgelord thing I've ever read.

[Trece · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un Millarazo mas como fanfiction reducido y limitado de lo que entendio de Ellis.

[Jessie B. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This volume was not as good as the first one.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series got dumb fast. I'm usually pretty forgiving of Mark Millar, but maybe as I've gotten older, my tastes have changed and I have less time for his sense of shock value and lowbrow humor.

[Chad · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one's a weird artifact.

When first released in the early 2000s, many of the issues were notoriously edited/censored at the last second before publication. It was a hot topic on discussion boards at the time.

This edition mostly undid those edits. It's largely (but not entirely) back to the original more graphic/suggestive material. And much of the uncensored material is very "Look how twisted we are!" edgelord stuff that had me rolling my eyes.

Even some of the originally printed material hasn't aged as well as Warren Ellis' Book One. At one point a villain survives and wins only because of his extreme homophobia, and it's played for laughs. And Seth's comeuppance plays into hillbilly/Deliverance stereotypes in really frustrating ways.

There's narrative structural issues too - the G7 story twists and turns back on itself in ways that feel alternately too drawn out and too abrupt.

I kept waiting for the other shoe to fall from Book One, for The Authority to realize that appointing themselves in charge of the world was a bad idea. And the story kind of gets there, but with timing that makes no sense and then handwaves over the details. Afterward, the team goes right back to their former attitude.

An unsatisfying story full of gross & dated material. Can't recommend it.

[Daniel Kovacs Rezsuk · Rating 3 out of 5]

The best thing I can say about Millar's take on The Authority is it's almost as good as Warren Ellis' run in the first few issues, mainly due to Frank Quitely's artwork. Then it gets progressively worse with every consecutive story arc and by the end, I lost most of my enthusiasm for the book. What bothers me the most is it's pretty apparent that Millar would've been capable of writing the team in a smarter, more mature way but, as always, he gave in to his juvenile edgelord tendencies. Millar essentially wrote a low-brow parody of Warren Ellis, which is funny in only one way: Nextwave, a 2006 series written by Warren Ellis, is partially a parody of Millar's take on superheroes, and it's a significantly better comic book than most of Millar's works, even though it's a comedic copy of a comedic copy. tl;dr.: read Nextwave, Agents of H.A.T.E. instead.

[Viki · Rating 5 out of 5]

The team changes a bit after Jenny "dies" and Jack steps up as the team leader but the other aspects of the first volume are the same here. The art could be nicer, I will be totally honest, but somehow the story is so rich and heavy that you can give it a pass. God, I love this book. I'm not sure when I will have the willpower to re-read it, maybe I won't do it for years, but I still absolutely loved it.

[Briones · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mark Millar takes the intelligent, acid and bold superhero story by Warren Ellis and turns it into an edgy cringefest that brings nothing new to the table, contributes barely anything to the Authority lore and turns the characters into massive douchebags just because. The ideas introduced in this book are promising, but their execution is mediocre at best. 1'5, if only because Frank Quitely's artwork is always pretty to look at (even when dealing with Millar's uninspired characters and ideas).

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Preferred this to Book One, I think perhaps because the rest of the team got a word in edgeways and it wasn't just the Jenny Sparks show. Some dodgy artwork with regards to Apollo, not sure why he's so tough to get right, but on the whole nicely drawn. A more cohesive story than most DC big books, and you get a whole lot of comic for your money. Very amusing in places, does seem somewhat dated now.
Tis good if you like Authority.

[Kris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whilst still great, felt like a step down from the Hitch\Ellis era. The earlier arcs fell self-aware to the point of annoyance to me, when you have them fighting evil versions of Marvel characters saying things like "this isn't like a comic book" I expected them to wink at us.

Whilst the final arc was Boys level of purileness and torture porn. It just goes beyond for me.

Still a lot of good, just disappointing.

[Fredrik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as Ellis.Starts very good and slowly goes downhill.One issue is just a setup for the medicore Monarchy mini series which has not been collected for a while.

Its fun to see more of Apollo and Midnighter but overal i won't be reading this again.

[Jamie Connolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good. Millar really ran with this and came up with some good arcs. 4 or 5 stars.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe 4.5