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The Wildstorm universe recently got a reboot relaunching many of their titles. Unlike Crisis the changes were in the universe were mild. Some little retcon here or there.
Well three former dead SW members came back this issue. Hellstrike and Fuji!!! They don't know who brought them back someone who bent time/space.
They show the Anti-Monitor in shadows!?!?! whoa!
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This is a great book on it's own, and with the recent hints between here and ION, folks should be giving the Wildstorm books more than a glance.
From: Denver, CO | Registered: May 2004
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lol, thanks CJ. I've always liked the Wildstorm stuff. Love the new stuff as well. It's a great universe.
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Bump for the new issue out this week. Gage is really building the WildStorm universe to be something wild and exciting again.
From: Denver, CO | Registered: May 2004
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Latest issue rocked! The naked girl! The villains attacking the police hq! cool villains btw! The traitor? Oh and the cops seems like they are going to kick tail.
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What did you think UJ? John and his Boys Blue showed Defile why you don't mess with guys with guns. I liked how the PHD each used their own special talents to extricate themselves from their situation.
And Jackson King's manipulation of Farenheit is exactly what makes the WSU different from the DCU. And why I enjoy it.
From: Denver, CO | Registered: May 2004
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CJ, i loved the latest issue. Some good old fashioned comic book superhero violence. It was pretty action packed.
You think Farenheit bought the lie that she was being brainwashed? Yeah if that was a DC or Marvel book it would've been a huge deal. PHD forgives(/manipulates) their traitor members.
Can't wait for next issue. Fuji and Winter are the guys I think about when I think of SW. (it's winter right?)
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Yeah, Farenhiet has that naive superhero idolization thing still. Her freakout over Paris' past was a bit much.
Never been a big Fuji fan, but Winter has to be my favourite WSU character. Throw in Hellstrike, and these three can take on DC's Trinity.
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To show you how much I know of Stormwatch...I get Winter and Hellstrike confused. Hellstrike is the one I meant. The guy that glows blue energy.
I also never was a big fan of Fuji but he ain't bad. He's no Blok though.
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I loved the old Brian Hitch Stromwatch and got all their trade paperbacks. The last one had just about everyone die in the "Aliens" crossover.
So, today, I picked up issue # 8 of the new Stormwatch book and all the people who died in the old series are right here. I haven't gotten issues 1 - 7 so I have no idea if this was explained. Can anyone enlighten me?
"Several dead characters are back for this series, thanks to the events of Captain Atom: Armageddon, in which the Wildstorm universe underwent a "soft reboot" with minor changes in continuity. In this new series, Stormwatch has been reconstituted as the UN's superteam, but a branch office has been set up in New York. Entitled Stormwatch: P.H.D. (Post Human Division), they are underfunded and overworked, their mission is to find "cost-effective" methods of saving the day. The series follows the branch office as their leader, former Weatherman Jackson King, tries to defeat superhuman menaces and balance the tight budget. The team consists of King, NYPD officer John Doran, a depowered Fahrenheit, a former Stormforce soldier codenamed Paris, a master manipulator and former moll to supervillains called Gorgeous, a former sorcerer's apprentice named Black Betty, a shape-shifting ex-supervillain and forensics expert named Dr. Mordecai Shaw a.k.a the Monstrosity, and an ex-supervillain and technology expert called the Machinist.
The comics are being collected into trade paperbacks:
* Volume 1 (160 pages, July 2007, ISBN 1401215009)"
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Just put the first trade on my order list with DCBS based on CJ's enthusiasm.
Think I'll get the trade too. Looked up some reviews to answer Hunt Drouin's question on the new Stormwatch and found many glowing recommendations. Apart from Sleeper, I had found the old Wildstorm universe kind of bogging down story-wise.
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