Stormwatch volume 1

[sgt.candy]

ive been collecting issues of this since 1999. i got issue 43 recently. damn this book is insane
the son of a former president, with syphillis going around killing random people, and the secret service covering it all up and led by a woman who got surgery to appear like a certain familiar person because it was the only person hed answer to

and also, i wanted to know is team achillies good? im getting back into stormwatch with the new series but wanted to check that out since it came out at a time i wasnt really reading comics

[borateen]

ive been collecting issues of this since 1999. i got issue 43 recently. damn this book is insane
the son of a former president, with syphillis going around killing random people, and the secret service covering it all up and led by a woman who got surgery to appear like a certain familiar person because it was the only person hed answer to

and also, i wanted to know is team achillies good? im getting back into stormwatch with the new series but wanted to check that out since it came out at a time i wasnt really reading comics

Personally, I loved Team Achilles. The art was a little hard to handle when Portacio was on it, but I thought the story made up for it. While I understand why it had to happen, I was sad to see this title canceled.

I loved Ellis' Stormwatch run, too. Those are some of the best team stories I've ever read. I've alway felt that they need the Absolute treatment.

[sgt.candy]

also, pardon for the quality but i love this cover

[DaveEB]

also, pardon for the quality but i love this cover

That had to be a special variant, because I've never seen that cover in my life...I know what it's in reference to though...

[sgt.candy]

That had to be a special variant, because I've never seen that cover in my life...I know what it's in reference to though...

it was. i sadly got the original cover :(

[DWEarhart]

Since it's inception at Image, Stormwatch has been one of the better books to be on the stands. The original series was taken for granted in the pretty art, bland story shuffle of the 90's. Warren Ellis helped catapult it to unique places and storytelling, Team Achilles was a very good read as well, and it seems that Christos Gage is continuing the momentum that the title of Stormwatch carries.

[Strannik]

Add yet another vote of confidence to a growing choir. I loved Ellis' run of Stormwatch and Stormwatch:Team Achilles. I would go so far as to say that Stormwatch was better then Authority. Even during the early Image years, when quality was clearly not a priority, this was one of the better titles. Or, at least, in my not-so-humble opinion.

[borateen]

That had to be a special variant, because I've never seen that cover in my life...I know what it's in reference to though...

This issue had three covers. The regular pulp/sci-fi cover by Raney, the Watchmen cover by Gibbons, and a Jenny Sparks cover by Gil Kane. I can't find a picture of that one, but I used to have it, so it's out there.

[sgt.candy]

gibbons drew the panels inside it also?

[DaveEB]

gibbons drew the panels inside it also?

Nope, Tom Raney. But if I'm not mistaken, in that issue Tom Raney played with a whole bunch of old comicbook styles...Gibbons' style included.

[borateen]

gibbons drew the panels inside it also?

No. If I'm not mistaken, the entire issue was penciled by Raney; Gibbons just did an alternate cover. Now that I think back on it, though, I think the different eras portrayed were in different styles, so I don't know if Raney still did the whole thing. Let me check the handy dandy www.comics.org (The Grand Comics Database...it should be in EVERY collector's bookmarks). Here we go:

Apparently I was wrong and Gibbons didn't do the Watchmen cover. The GCD has the artist listed as Mark Irwin. Raney did do all of the interior art, though.

[sgt.candy]

No. If I'm not mistaken, the entire issue was penciled by Raney; Gibbons just did an alternate cover. Now that I think back on it, though, I think the different eras portrayed were in different styles, so I don't know if Raney still did the whole thing. Let me check the handy dandy www.comics.org (The Grand Comics Database...it should be in EVERY collector's bookmarks). Here we go:

Apparently I was wrong and Gibbons didn't do the Watchmen cover. The GCD has the artist listed as Mark Irwin. Raney did do all of the interior art, though.

ok im gonna be honest. i hate tom raney's artwork

but if he managed to do all that including nailing down dave gibbon's style in watchmen i now have a newfound respect for him

[dancj]

He did a pretty good job of Gibbons's style. A little less neat, but basically spot on. I haven't got the book to hand so I can't remember all of the styles he used, but there was one in Will Eisner's Spirit style that was good too.

[xarathos]

I've a got a few of that volume one series I've been reading recently. I'm looking for #47 because it's supposed to be a Jim Lee pencilled issue with all splash pages. Sounds cool.

[brundlefly]

I would go so far as to say that Stormwatch was better then Authority.

And I would totally agree with you there. I like the Authority and all (under both Millar and Brubaker as well as Ellis), but I thought Ellis' initial Stormwatch stuff was better & more intelligent than his subsequent run on the Authority. And SW: Team Achilles was far and away better than the awful fill-in Authority arcs between Millar's run and Brubaker's (Robbie Morrison, I think, did most of them). I'm really liking the current incarnation of Stormwatch under Cristos Gage, too, what with the appearances of regulars from the Ellis era of SW. It's my favorite of the Wildstorm reboots so far, along with Azz's Deathblow.