The Wild Storm Vol. 4
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Jenny Mei Sparks is back, and she has a plan. The problem is that other people have ideas, too, and one of them is about reducing the population of Earth by 90 percent. Meanwhile, Skywatch intensifies its preparation for war and increases its attacks on the planet. For some of these conflict zones, Skywatch�s greatest threat is not IO or conventional forces, but the people who escaped from its experimentation camps. And the four people in London whom it knows little about, but who are preparing to take steps to alter the balance of the world! Plus, it�s the return of Midnighter and Apollo! Collects THE WILD STORM #19-24!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Assassins, altered human superbeings, clandestine organizations, and threats from the stars all collide in Ellis's reimagining of characters from the Wildstorm universe, several of which he created in their original runs. Grifter, Voodoo, Zealot, Deathblow, and the Authority's Jenny Sparks and the Engineer all receive a makeover for today's audience, with their world morphed into a landscape of superpowered espionage. The story follows a spur-of-the-moment act of selflessness that thwarts an assassination and sets in motion events that expose the corporation International Operations (IO) as the crafter of alien hybrid technology and the secret controller of the world. The script is as tight as one expects from Ellis (Transmetropolitan), though this first volume mostly amounts to six issues of setup and exposition, occasionally interrupted by bursts of violence. It's not bad by any means, and what's being established is a slow burn that will likely pay off in subsequent collections. The art by Davis-Hunt (Clean Room) is crisp and rich in detail, reminiscent of the work of Frank Quitely, though the characters' faces all bear a certain mannequin-like blankness during the sequences not featuring mayhem. This promising start bears sticking with.
