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.
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars
Graphic SF Reader,
By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Authority (Authority S.) (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.
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Authority (Authority S.) (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.
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