- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (29 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840239263
- ISBN-13: 978-1840239263
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 16.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,216,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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High above the planet, aboard a fifty-mile-wide alien vessel, The Authority - seven awesomely powerful super-humans - act as global bouncers for the human race. If you threaten the life and liberty of Earth's inhabitants, they'll do whatever they need to do to set things straight! With the President out to discreetly dispose of them and a seemingly global depression epidemic on their hands, it's only a matter of time before The Authority are forced to react...This stand-alone story is by the brilliant new creative team of acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and journalist John Ridley and up-and-coming artist Ben Oliver.
About the Author
John Ridley is a successful novelist, screenwriter and journalist who has more than a few writing credits to his name, including the screenplays for Three Kings and U-Turn. Ben Oliver is a relative newcomer to the comics scene and has worked on the highly acclaimed Puncture for fledgling UK comics company Com.x before being tempted to work for the larger US companies.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What could be more apocalyptic for humanity than the end of time itself ? This seems to be a return to form for The Authority, whose original premise was of massive concepts, bizarre/original ideas, questions about who really runs the world and the frailty of(super)humans - all of this is here!
The script is reminiscent of Mark Millar (in fact it is really a sequel to Transfer of Power), the artwork is effective but still a pale second behind Hitch et al's cinematic style from earlier issues. The real adversary in the plot is revealed only at the end (after the annoyances are dealt with - like the US govt.) and in a fabulously understated way - one of the devices that makes The Authority so original and contemporary, I'm glad the new authors don't lose site of this; oh and once again Jack Hawksmoor proves to be the coolest, most "21st century" hero ever with a stunning coup-de-grace at the end.
The script is reminiscent of Mark Millar (in fact it is really a sequel to Transfer of Power), the artwork is effective but still a pale second behind Hitch et al's cinematic style from earlier issues. The real adversary in the plot is revealed only at the end (after the annoyances are dealt with - like the US govt.) and in a fabulously understated way - one of the devices that makes The Authority so original and contemporary, I'm glad the new authors don't lose site of this; oh and once again Jack Hawksmoor proves to be the coolest, most "21st century" hero ever with a stunning coup-de-grace at the end.
It's not the best Authority ever, but a slow clawing-back of the early days.
Anyone who has not seen The Authority before and wants grown-up, challenging superheros - read this and all the others, it will change the way you look at graphic novels.
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Graphic SF Reader
3 Sep 2007
Format:Hardcover
Ridley, the author of the Soledad O'Rourke books, gives us his take on our favorite bunch of powerful posthumans.
The Unites States government is still not happy with The Authority taking over, and tries to do something about it. Supposedly a normal human, they slip an agent into contact with The Authority on a pretext.
Right, that trick never works, at least not with this bunch. Fool them once, quite likely you die not too long afterward.
The Unites States government is still not happy with The Authority taking over, and tries to do something about it. Supposedly a normal human, they slip an agent into contact with The Authority on a pretext.
Right, that trick never works, at least not with this bunch. Fool them once, quite likely you die not too long afterward.
Weak
13 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
Once again the Authority are the target of powers that would like to see them eliminated. Plots are hatched and agents are enlisted. Soon the Authority is on the defensive without even realizing it. But what happens when the powers eliminating the Authority decide that they need the Authority?
The book claims that the Authority is being attacked at their human level and not through superpowers. That may be the intention, but it doesn't rally come across that way. But even though that premise is not completely clear, the team's perils are. It definitely looks like the Authority can be completely undermined with little resistance on their part.
Not a bad book, but a little weak in its ability to tell the story in a more meaningful fashion. Certainly better than the Kev stories but far from the best.
The book claims that the Authority is being attacked at their human level and not through superpowers. That may be the intention, but it doesn't rally come across that way. But even though that premise is not completely clear, the team's perils are. It definitely looks like the Authority can be completely undermined with little resistance on their part.
Not a bad book, but a little weak in its ability to tell the story in a more meaningful fashion. Certainly better than the Kev stories but far from the best.
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