Wildstorm: Awful or Underappreciated? - Off-Topic

#1 Edited by MC3PO (52 posts) - 9 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

EDIT: This should probably be moved, but I don't know how to do that; it's not exactly off-topic, is it?

I've got a lot of comic book fans as friends, but without me it seems like none of them would have ever picked up a Wildstorm title. I got into the universe through WildC.A.T.s back in the '90s, and followed that up with Stormwatch. In my adulthood, I found that Warren Ellis' run on Stormwatch (which would spin into The Authority) was pretty damn good, and it got me back into reading titles like WildC.A.T.s, Gen13, DV8, Deathblow, and Wetworks, as well as new titles like Sleeper, Midnighter, 21 Down, and my all-time fave, Planetary. I proselytize my favorites among these, and find that a lot of my friends really dig them, but had never heard of them before.

With characters/groups like Stormwatch, Grifter, Caitlin Fairchild, and Voodoo now being ported over to DC, I wonder if anyone has gone back and read some of the better volumes, or if there's anyone else out there who sort of carries a torch for the Wildstorm universe. Is it just me?

#2 Posted by KnightRise (3679 posts) - 9 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

I appreciate Wildstorm, at the same time it was just too, I don't know, too out there? The names all sounded like fake CIA codenames, while the "analogues" where closer to a teenager's gnarly, powercord rift-laden parody. I think it was awesome for being badass.

#3 Posted by Duke_Nasty (1017 posts) - 9 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

I just got a Deathblow #1 and a Wildcats #1 yesterday in the dollar bin. I'm gonna read them tonight.

#4 Posted by Nelomaxwell (5383 posts) - 9 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

Wildstorm was dope.

#5 Posted by cyberninja (10376 posts) - 9 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

Definitely under appreciated

#6 Posted by King Saturn (211146 posts) - 9 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

Wildstorm is Under Appreciated... So Is Vertigo.

#7 Posted by YourNeighborhoodComicGeek (13831 posts) - 9 months, 21 days ago - Show Bio

Under-appreciated by far.

#8 Posted by MC3PO (52 posts) - 9 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@KnightRise: I feel you, there; it isn't all brilliant. Warren Ellis is sort of obsesses with doing pastiches of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, for example, and Mark Millar went on an odd "do a whole team that mirrors the Avengers!" jag in The Authority. The early stuff definitely suffers from Image-itis, with the action-film-esque characters and codenames, but the brand improved over time and tilted toward more interesting stories and concepts. Sleeper, for example; Planetary, for another.

#9 Posted by CaioTrubat (12000 posts) - 9 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Under appreciated.