The Future of Wildstorm and You

[Chris Striker]

Ok with Revelations winding down next week and Number of the Best starting up soon, so we’re coming into the home stretch of the beginning of the end of the WS as we know it. As we’ve been told this Trilogy is suppose to carve out a new path for the WS and it characters changing the current statues quo. There are 3 possibilities that this “Trinity” storyline can end and I want to see which one people would like to see.

1) The WS and its heroes come to the very brink of Armageddon and are forever changed by the experience and the SPBs look to re-evaluate the world and their place in it. Even the people of the world is changed by coming to edge of extinction, the governments of the world take a good look at SPBs and their place in the world.

2) Armageddon comes to pass, but the WS characters are able to turn the tide before the entire world’s consumed by it, they saved more then they killed. Cities all over the world have had major damage inflicted upon them. The world is forever changed in the aftermath and rebuilding has begun and governments and SPB try to make plays for power throwing the political power structure into disarray.

3) Armageddon has come to pass and the SPBs and the few remnants of humanity are all that’s left (See Armageddon one-shots) and those who are left are tasked with rebuilding a world…hopefully “a finer world”. Working technology is scarce as is food, drinkable water and medicine. Nature has fundamentally been altered and the miltiverse has been virtually cut off to the WSU. Earth has become a savage place to live and if you are without superpowers it has become death sentence. Pre-geddon heroes will see after so many years of trying to save the world; they’ll now have to see how this new world has changed them

Which one would want to see…?

[DWEarhart]

4) Wildstorm seperates from DC and goes back to Image.

Shameless thought: I really like Scott Beatty and think he's an underrated writer.

#2 doesn't sound like a Wildstorm type of ending, or a modern mainstream comic book ending, so, not #2. But that's me. It's just not chaotic enough.

I guess #3 by default. For #1, if the government isn't willing to get all kinds of ruthless and start WWVI on the SPBs, it doesn't seem worth it, especially after what the Authority has done during its tenure - again, I haven't kept up with Wildstorm in a while, so I have no idea what's going on. And I probably still wouldn't buy it. But I am all for shutting off DC's multiverse from Wildstorm, unfortunately that probably means loosing the Bleed as well. That I wouldn't want.

After Deathblow ends, I'm pretty much done with Wildstorm, at least until another Stormwatch book comes out. Stormwatch has been the most consistently pleasing book, from its Image days to the present. It has always been good.

[PamGrierOverdrive]

If past Wildcats continuity gets wiped out, I'm washing my hands of Wildstorm forever. But I think the past continuity has already been shitcanned, or at least that was Morrison's idea with his aborted relaunch.

[Stony]

4) Wildstorm seperates from DC and goes back to Image.
You know what? Snarky as that was, I can't help think that would actually have benefitted WildStorm... Provided they could keep the same talent that WildStorm has enjoyed under DC ownership, I think WildStorm could have been freer to follow the way the stories developed the way it did withought DC control.
Of course, one can't deny that under DC ownership, who knows if they could have retained the level of talent that they did.
Bit of a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation.

[DWEarhart]

True that.

Independently they can't afford the top name talent, but they could find the superstar of the future, but how many duds need to be published before that happens? Or what if they find such a person right away and dwindle after?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't indeed.

I'll keep checking in on Wildstorm because I truly love their characters but while all this big event hoopla is going on, I'm not interested. I don't know about Wildstorm itself, but I know DC and Marvel both have plans going well into and maybe even past 2009, meaning more big events are coming in 2009.

Growing up, loving comics, I always thought each individual comic was supposed to be a mega-event.

[aelio]

For a "smaller" company, Wildstorm had top notch creators even before the DC purchase. A lot of people forget that even in the pre-DC days, WS had talents like Ellis, Seagle, Moore, Robinson, Charest, Campbell and, of course, Jim Lee. It's amazing the talent that such a small company pulled in. J. Scott Campbell was a WS find. Their recruitment of top talent is what really set WS apart from the rest. But, they will never leave DC, especially not now.

[Godlike]

3) Armageddon has come to pass and the SPBs and the few remnants of humanity are all that’s left (See Armageddon one-shots) and those who are left are tasked with rebuilding a world…hopefully “a finer world”. Working technology is scarce as is food, drinkable water and medicine. Nature has fundamentally been altered and the miltiverse has been virtually cut off to the WSU. Earth has become a savage place to live and if you are without superpowers it has become death sentence. Pre-geddon heroes will see after so many years of trying to save the world; they’ll now have to see how this new world has changed them

Which one would want to see…?

The third one, above.

Followed by alien invasions, sentient machines and crazy supervillains trying to take over the shattered world. Plus, battling DC main universe characters.

Oh yeah, and the return of Warren Ellis' GOD (from Authority).

Or something like that...

[carabas]

I just want all DC, Marvel, Wildstorm... universe-wide crossover-bollocks to go back to the nineties and stay there for at least until 2011. I'm sick of them.