Stormwatch was really weird and complicated. At first I didn’t even know if I was going to finish it because I didn’t know any of the superheroes and the more I read the weirder and more convoluted it got. At the beginning there was a whole lot of nagging over who should be the leader of the group. Lots of whining and such. This progressed through the whole store but eventually it faded from whining to mature discussions.So even though it gets way weirder it also gets more interesting as well. E...

The first volume of the New 52 Stormwatch is a pretty good read. I read it when it first came out, and still enjoy it today. The team setup works and we get nice introductions to the characters, as well as some mysteries concerning the Martian Manhunter's involvement with the team and also the Justice League.The addition of Apollo and Midnighter happens over the course of a few issues, as does their burgeoning relationship. I haven't read the original Stormwatch/Authority, so I don't know how we...

The new incarnation of Stormwatch presents a solid sci-fi story, but it isn't nearly as good as the old Wildstrom universe was. There is little to no character development, and the plot seems rushed and is hard to follow in some parts. The beginning of Apollo and Midnighter's relationship is unconvincing and not at all like in the old Wildstorm titles, and Midnighter's new costume looks really, really stupid. And Martian Manhunter is just...there. With no explanation (although to be fair, none o...

Look, I like big wacky sci-fi ideas as much as anybody, but they have to mean something. In Paul Cornell's Stormwatch, the ideas are flying with zero explanation, zero setup, no weight or importance. No connection to a real-world problem or a real-world fear. They just... happen. In this book, we get: the moon wants to attack the earth (never explained), a giant squid creature attacks (somehow connected to the moon but, yet again, never explained), a secret ancient city resting underneath rural

TV's raspy Green Arrow [arrow aimed to author's center-of-mass]: "Paul Cornell, you have failed this city and your readership!"Author: "But I brought them back from the dead! The Wildstorm imprint of Stormwatch and The Authority were dead. And the the New 52 gave them the chance to live again, to smooth out Ellis' outrageous parodies of a non-straight Batman and Superman team-up, and those other obscure characters with god-like powers!"Arrow: "..."Author: "And I made it so clear that these chara...

I needed to wait until a week after I finished this book to write my review.... I needed time to gauge my reaction. Usually with a comic, I can tell right-away whether it was good or bad, but this time it wasn't quite so easy.While reading, it seemed obvious that this was not a great comic. The art is average with only a few moments of above-averageness. The plot feels thin and strenuous; the characters seem flat and are constantly reminding one-another of their powers as if they are not an ages...

'The Authority' it ain't, and it's lost some of the massive plots and more mature themes I'm used to, but nonetheless an entertaining reboot and an interesting addition to the mainstream DC universe. I am looking forward to seeing where this tale goes.

I had high hopes for The Stormwatch reboot. I've seen at least one of Paul Cornell's screenplays (a Dr. Who) and his Captain Britain and Knight & Squire ranged from good to very good. So what went wrong here?It might be that went wrong is that Cornell is not Warren Ellis. Ellis brought the big screen summer blockbuster style to the title with some wonderfully snarky dialogue. Cornell's lines are all right, but that it-just all right. There is an attempt to lay out a larger mythology for Stormwat...

Except for Martian Manhunter, I'd never heard of any of these characters before.So, I was kind of surprised when I liked it.The premise is that there is a group of Metas who have been protecting the earth from alien bad guys (forever?), without anyone else knowing about it. It's a pretty cool idea.I guess these guys used to be called something else before the New 52 launch, so if you've been read their comics before, you'll probably get more out of this than I did.Still, even as a newbie to this...

I'm giving this 3.5 stars. Mostly cause I found this to be so full on for a first volume. I was only familiar with Martian Manhunter prior to reading this so I had a lot of catching up to do. There is a big roster of characters in this book, and most of them have really weird powers. Like Jack Hawksmoor who can talk with cities, Adam who seems to be as old as time itself and ageing backwards slowly in a 'Benjamin Button' kind of way, the Projectionist who is a living internet interface and Jenny...

One of those series that I want to like more than I do.It has all the elements I like, interesting characters with funky powers, secretly saving the world from weird sci-fi menaces, but it's missing something.The cast feels flat and relies on you knowing about these characters already ( never a good sign when you are supposedly starting from scratch) and they run around a lot without accomplishing much.The menaces are cool and odd ( reminds me of the old Wildstorm series 'The Establishment'), bu...

Jenny Quantum, Angie the Engineer, Jack Hawksmoor, Midnighter, and Apollo are: Stormwatch? But that’s The Authority line-up!? For some reason as part of the “New 52” reboot, the Authority team have been joined by J’onn J’onzz the Martian Manhunter and rebranded as Stormwatch - maybe The Authority sounded too fascistic? This was a pleasant surprise as I love The Authority and feel ambivalent toward Stormwatch – game on, an Authority book! The good surprises keep coming as Paul Cornell proves he i...

It isn't terrible, but I am feeling a little frustrated. Jim Starlin took over the title with #19, and when he did, he completely rebooted the series. Nothing that I just read happened, and the versions of the characters that I read are gone. I kind of feel like I wasted my time. And seriously, New 52 is barely two years old and we're already entirely rebooting entire series? Knowing that, I would say not to bother with reading this volume of Stormwatch. There's nothing here fabulous enough to m...

I really enjoyed this New 52 series. I had seen Midnighter show up in Grifter, but had no idea about him or who he was...Stormwatch was also briefly mentioned, but I had no idea about them, nor the Warren Ellis version. Some very interesting characters, and I look forward to following them some more, especially Apollo and Midnighter, and their interactions, also nice to see Martian Manhunter show up, as well as some very cool other characters. A bit save the world secret attack/sci-fi stuff, but...

I picked this up because of the mention of Stormwatch in another graphic novel I had finished, and partially because Martian Manhunter is in it. I thought it might be an interesting story. I had no previous information about this book going into it, and I feel that newbies might be confused with this first book. It's a reboot of the series, since DC Comics absorbed Wildstorm, and as a result of the New 52, DC Comics-wide reboot. It's pretty good, but I was left pretty confused about what was goi...

This was an interesting reading experience. It's a somewhat bizarre story and if you're not at least somewhat acquainted with some Sci-Fi conventions (like "hyper-space", "nano-tech" and the like) you might find yourself going "eh?" at times. I purchased this for one reason only: The Martian Manhunter. But the truth is, even though he is being touted as the big gun of the series, he doesn't really feature all that much. The other characters are members of The Authority that have come over to the...

Paul Cornell - writerMiguel Sepulveda - illustrator"The New 52" brought a soft reboot of the entire DC Universe including, apparently, Wildstorm imprint books like "Stormwatch." Cornell does a serviceable job rebooting the book, but what fresh stories remain for a concept that is already a well-mined deconstruction of the superhero team genre? The art by Sepulveda is great, really top-notch stuff. If you like the characters from "Stormwatch" and "The Authority" you'll probably enjoy this book.3....

OMG, in the first four (no, six - wait, twenty) pages, Cornell executed the least-subtle "establish your characters" sequence I've read in any highly-regarded 'new' comic. Wow is that clunky. I would've tossed this back in the back-to-the-library pile right there if not for the strong reviews my fellow GoodReads friends had given this book.Seriously, this is straight out of grade-school writing class: each character gets their codename and power set mentioned in the first two pages in which they...

A very ambitious compilation that strives mightily to introduce some unfamiliar characters to the entry-level DC fan (such as myself), but in the end, like with a lot of titles based around a team, it felt like either too much or too little time was spent with each of the members to really help you get a feel for who they are, what their powers are (one of the characters, the Century Child, actually has kind of a sly built-in joke about her, i.e. her powers are based on the physics and technolog...