Stormwatch continues to be...well, bad. First off, DC keeps trying to paint this team as a big deal and then each subsequent issue is less and less important. The characters don't jive well as a team, even Apollo and Midnighter who Milligan and Jenkins can't get write. So much "science" speak signifying nothing. That's what 80% of the book is. The art was all over the place. Overall, I can't think of a reason to read this other than you're a masochist.

This book reflects how I feel about the rest of the DCU after the New 52. Like an outsider, keeping watch on all the superheroes from afar and I'm not crazy about what I see.

Not quite as good as the first volume, but still an enjoyable read. There is a lot going on here, with a secret tribe of Neanderthals who are determined to bring Homo Sapiens to its knees and restore the Neanderthals to evolutionary prominence, to the Martian Manhunter creeping out the rest of the team, to the burgeoning relationship with Apollo and Midnighter, and even the subplot of traitor Harry Tanner. This make the book feel a bit rushed in some places, and it doesn't help that the artistic...

Damn! I thought that Paul Cornell continued for a few more issues. Ah well. I was apparently fooled by the Jenkins issues.Paul Jenkins (7-8). And the Jenkins issues are sadly mediocre. He tries to tell the big-scale action adventures of classic Authority, but there’s no excitement to them. There’s also, unfortunately, a bevy of worthless technobabble. The only things good about the first two issues are the confrontation between Midnighter and Jenny (which nicely subverts their previous relations...

This isn't one of my favorite series from DC's New 52, but it's free to read on a friend's Comixology account. As I stated in my review for volume 1 of this series, I really loved the original characters of Stormwatch back when they were first created at Wildstorm comics in the 1990's. I wish that they had used so of those characters for this book since DC now owns them all. Instead they used the characters from the Ellis run on the series at Image, Martian Manhunter, and some either new charact...

Some mildly interesting things happen, but the inescapable feeling that this series was an afterthought looms heavily in the background. Peter Milligan knows how to write an interesting cast of characters as evidenced by his run on X-Force, but this is far from those heights. Plot threads are formed and abandoned seemingly at random.

N52 did Stormwatch and the Authority dirty...

Sad. Just SAD. If you're a fan of the original Stormwatch, give this a MISS. If you're thinking of giving Stormwatch a try, GIVE THIS A MISS. Pale imitation done in the Didio DC "Kill 'em all" style, too dark for kids, teenagers, and most 20, 30, 40, and 50-year-olds.

I didn't hate this, but I didn't love it either. The characterization for this team is getting week, except for, surprisingly, the relationship between Midnighter and Apollo. It is likely their relationship that kept me reading it, because the actual storylines are just plain silly. The action is choppy and jumps all over the place; events happen too quickly with virtually no lead-up or discussion to what happens. I think this series would be better if they would slow down the action, take time

Much, MUCH better than the first volume, although the whole thing felt like filler while they tried to work out what to do with the characters / team / book. #12, which features the Martian Manhunter wiping the team's memories of him, was clearly just freeing him up for something else - Justice League, I'll bet.The art dropped a bit with the departure of Miguel Sepulveda, especially when it came to MM, whose head changed quite a bit. That said, he IS a shapeshifter.I wonder if J'onn's interactio...

You know why this book never worked out, right? Too many damned Wildstorm characters that everyone forgot about, and not enough DC characters for anyone's liking. I mean, all that had to be done was take some of the JSA guys from Johns' run, and insert them here. Like Thom Kallor, The Starman, or Magog, and you'd have had a few more readers and more to play around with. But Jim Lee is a supreme narcissist and as head of DC, thought he knew better than everyone else. I mean, what other a-hole wou...

I’m reviewing both Stormwatch, Vol. 1: The Dark Side and Stormwatch, Vol. 2: Enemies of Earth. I will keep it all spoiler-free.Before there was Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and the rest of the Justice League, who was around to protect Earth from all of the interstellar, extradimensional, and metaphysical threats to its existence? The answer to that question, according to this graphic novel, is an ultra-secret organization called Stormwatch. Like the Justice League, they are headquartered in

This is one of the D.C. Comics that I actually want to learn more about the characters themselves as opposed to just looking forward to the battles and/or villains.

Stormwatch: Enemies of Earth picks up where the previous trade paperback left off, collecting the next five issues (Stormwatch #7–12) of the 2011 on-going series and Red Lanterns #10 and covers six storylines: "Supercritical", "The Da Vinci Coda", "Digging up the Past", "Two Lanterns", "Devolver", and "Nefertiti's Bust"."Supercritical" is a two-issue storyline (Stormwatch #7–8) and has Stormwatch going against Daemonites – extra-terrestrials from a different galaxy with the powers of shape shift...

Reprints Stormwatch (3) #7-12 and Red Lanterns #10 (May 2012-October 2012). Stormwatch monitors the Earth and those who might threaten it…be it from space or alternate dimensions. Daemonites plot an invasion of Earth and Stormwatch also finds themselves in conflict with the Red Lanterns. Plus, Stormwatch could lose one of their most important members…but will they even know it? While the battle to protect Earth is going well, who is watching Stormwatch?Written by Peter Milligan and Paul Jenkins,...

Othello: The Musical, a presentation of the local junior high school Drama Club.Sorry, folks, but this was once a thriving (I guess?) creator-owned social and comic-lit commentary in the guise of a superhero comic. Then DC thought that buying the rights would buy the creativity, I guess, because this volume has good art and decent writing but no chemistry. Another superhero team circling, looking for a way into our pockets.

meh. this is not up to the level of quality i hope for from Peter Milligan. although, he is pretty hot & cold these days, so i'm not surprised. anyways. this is the 2nd collection of the New 52 Stormwatch. i have a soft spot for the Authority, despite the fact that (like a lot of ground-breaking comics) it spawned a host of shitty imitations that infected the comics landscape for years. this version of Stormwatch is basically the Authority characters, spiked with elements of Hickman's S.H.I.E.L....

I loved Stormwatch, Vol. 1: The Dark Side, but this just isn't as good.The biggest mistake, in my humble opinion, was doing a crossover story with the Red Lanterns.Without any context for what's happening to the Lanterns, the story seems random and patchy.I mean, who's going to know what the hell any of that is even about?! Well, except for pathetic dorks like me, who've already read that Red Lantern title.In my defense, whoever orders graphic novels for my library has a raging hard-on for Green...

Pretty goddamn terrible superhero comics! Full review here!

Huge plot jumps, unexplained and incomplete crossovers, 'surprise' back-story revelations, all the typical b-team crap, all found in Stormwatch.