Authority Vol. 2: Rule Brittania [Paperback]

Dan Abnett (Author), Andy Lanning (Author), Simon Coleby (Illustrator), Drew Johnson (Illustrator), Mike Miller (Illustrator)

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Series: Authority | Publication Date: March 9, 2010

The WildStorm Universe has been shattered by an apocalyptic event and the world is devastated. Does the Authority have a hope of rebuilding their "finer world," or is that dream dead and gone? Don't miss this beginning of an astounding new direction for the super-team. Find out what the group that was created to protect Earth from threats of a global scale must do after they fail in their mission.

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About the Author

Dan Abnett has written for various characters, including the X-Men, Batman, Dr Who and Superman. Andy Lanning has written for Batman, JLA and Titans. He also teamed up with Dan Abnett to write hits such as Legion Lost, The Punisher and Jet. Simon Coleby worked with Christos Gage on Midnighter and is now working on Fringe and The Authority. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: WildStorm (March 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401226671
• ISBN-13: 978-1401226671
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dan Abnett is a novelsit and award-winnig comic book writer. He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The best Authority story in years., February 11, 2011

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This review is from: Authority Vol. 2: Rule Brittania (Paperback)

The continuation of The Authority: World's End (which continued Wildstorm: World's End), The Authority: Rule Britannia ends two years of post-apocalyptic story that, quite radically, took the world's most powerful superhero group and stripped them of most of their power.

Like Warren Ellis's earliest Authority work, writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, helped along by excellent artists, put character development into action instead of words. Nobody talks about trauma, but Jack almost kills a fellow teammate, Midnighter is either acting reckless or standing on top of cliffs sending up balloons with messages to Apollo (unexpectedly sweet), Apollo sits alone over the sun and broods, and the Engineer keeps so busy (while snapping at everyone) it's not hard to see she's trying to avoid thinking. It's only Swift I didn't get any sense of, which is too bad, because I wondered how her Buddhist, life-loving nature would react seeing the apocalypse.

The action-oriented plot takes some great twists, throwing things like superheroes gone mad and sentient viruses into our heroes' way. I truly didn't know what would happen next or how all the little battles would tie together, but somehow the writers made it work. All dangling plot threads come together in a satisfying way at the end as The Authority relearn how to kick butt.

I have a couple nitpicky complaints. The opening two issues have horribly corny dialogue that I think was supposed to be funny and failed (keep going, it gets better), and a couple of scenes were forced short by page limitations. But overall, this is the best Authority story since Revolution.