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Not surprisingly, this is the best of the Authority storylines I’ve read, and is almost worth all the back reading I had to do to put it into perspective. It’s a shame that Grant Morrison only wrote the first two issues but he is credited with plotting the rest of the arc, so Keith Giffen must have kept most of the major story beats (he certainly did in the closing chapters of the opening four part story). In the article I read online that revealed Lost Year to me, it mentioned Morrison’s issues...
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For the laugh value of the "totally not gay" Apollo and Midnighter alone, this book was worth the read. And Midnighter's declaration to Apollo that he would never allow Apollo to be killed was just brilliant.
I knew nothing about The Authority before this and only read it because of Morrison's name. It doesn't give any sense of who the characters are for new readers, and that, coupled with a story entirely built around alternate versions of those characters and wildly inconsistent, often poor art, meant I never cared at all about anything that was happening.
What were The Authority doing before The Authority: World's End? Grant Morrison's work was cancelled and then resumed with added work by Keith Giffen, Morrison's work, he wrote all this volume is very superior to Giffen's which wrecks the this volume, in my opinion! 5 out of 12
Marginally better than the mish-mosh of Vol. 1, it does at least deal with the Authority questioning whether their intervention and human failings actually makes them the bad guys or not. It's still tonally (and artistically) all over the place.The best part, perversely enough, is when J M DeMatteis joins Giffen as co-writer, giving us an installment along the lines of their Justice League / Justice League International run, a mix-up that works far better (and legitimately) than it should.
The only volume in this I liked was the last story. Did not care for the soap opera world, or the world where Midnighter was sort of a gestapo-esque bad guy (although he was hot). YEt another world where poor Apollo is dead. But at least he died a hero.Pencils were inconsistent and downright ugly to me at times. Particularly the soap opera world. characters looked older or younger depending on who drew them. Jenny looked particularly badly drawn throughout going from a kid, to an adult and back
