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Vic's Midpollo/The Authority Rec List

Core Content:

- Stormwatch Vol 2. (issues #4-6) contains Midnighter & Apollo's origin story. It's written by Warren Ellis, and anything written by him is guaranteed to be good. The team they’re part of is blatantly a satirical take on the Justice League and it’s hilarious. While these are the only issues that include Midnighter & Apollo, I definitely recommend Ellis’ entire Stormwatch run (Vol.1 #37-50 & Vol.2 #1-11)–it made me fall in love with Shen & Jenny Sparks more than I already was.

- The Authority Vol.1 (issues #1-12) was also written by Warren Ellis; this is truly one of my favourite comic books of all time. The character interactions, plot, and art are all fantastic. I started reading this run for Midnighter & Apollo, and by the end I had fallen in love with the entire team; they’re rough-edged and violent without being gratuitous, witty without being corny, and it was fun as hell to read through them slaughtering both interdimensional colonialists and also god. There is unfortunately a villain who is an Evil Chinese Stereotype in the first arc though.

- The Authority Vol.1 (issues #13 & #29) the first & last issue of The Authority written by Mark Millar. It sucks ass but these two issues explain Midnighter & Apollo's adopted daughter (#13) and show them getting married (#29) which is the only reason I'm reccing them in the first place. It’s gratuitously violent without reason, and hurls slurs, homophobia, racism, sexism, and addiction at its readers for no reason other than shock value.

- The Authority Vol.2 (issues #0-9, #11-13) Issues 0-9 are an absolute blast, both the art style & tone were more in line with Ellis' run than Milars, and we get a call-back to the first arc of The Authority Vol.1 which I thought was pretty cool. Issues 10-13 take place after a 4-issue mini-series (Coup d'État) that culminates in The Authority ousting the president of the US, which I didn't read bc I had no desire to. Issue 10 is a direct follow-up to that arc, but it's rarely mentioned throughout issues 11-13 which is why I kept them. There were definitely parts of Vol.2 that I wasn't fond of, but the good far outweighs the bad in my opinion.

- The Authority: Revolution (issues #1-12) starts with The Authority dealing with the consequences of taking over the USA in Coup d'État, and it still made sense despite the fact I never read that arc. I was slow to get into it, but by the end I was flipping pages as fast as I could read them. The first few issues set up some interesting ideas and it follows through in knocking them down in a satisfying way. Their fight against the Big Bad felt a little too clean-cut in my opinion, but issue #11 has some amazingly angsty midpollo content.

- The Authority Vol.4 (issues #1-17) takes place after a crossover event spanning 3 mini-series between the biggest Wildstorm properties, but all you need to know is this: it's the apocalypse. While Midnighter and Apollo are separated by circumstance, it makes the issues where they appear together all the more impactful in my opinion. The original Authority run by Ellis will always be my favourite, but this run is definitely second place. The series wraps up nicely on a beautiful and hopeful note, and while there were still a few loose threads, this is definitely one of the better comic series ends I've read.

One-Shots & Miniseries:

- Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World is a one-shot crossover event. It’s a pretty fun read, minus the fact that H.P. Lovecraft makes an appearance.

- Wildstorm Winter Special 2005: Two Dangerous Ideas is a funny little one-shot where Midnighter and Apollo meet their alternate-reality counterparts: Daylighter and Pluto. Hilarity ensues.

- The Authority: Human on the Inside (miniseries) the plot makes no damn sense but Midnighter & Apollo have some really cute interactions in this and the art is soooo pretty.

- Lobo/The Authority: Jingle Hell the art is an... interesting choice and the writing is a rude, crude riot. I found this in my local comic shop's dollar bin and while it definitely belongs there, I do not regret buying it.

For the love of all that is good and gay please do not read Stormwatch Vol.3 it was part of the New 52 relaunch and reading it caused me psychic damage.

And feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions!

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I put this together in like an hour for a PowerPoint party, I hope y’all enjoy it.

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Okay I know everyone is going feral over Joey's "I will be the man my father never was" BUT CAN WE GET SOME APPRECIATION FOR MADELEINE'S "'Cause I'm more than what my mum told me to be" ???

#tattoos this around my heart. my hands. my brain!!#the amazing devil #vicshit #theamazingdevil

And I'd sink to the floor // what's the point anymore? // And you, you'd reply with a glint in your eye // saying "I don't know but I'm here // oh dear God, dear heart don't cry"

- Marbles

#songs that make me want to experience the emotion known as love!!#paint the kitchen lime green with me babey <3 #the amazing devil #vicshit #theamazingdevil

As someone who's tarred roofs in the middle of July I find it absolutely ridiculous that we've never seen the bats eat ass on a new roof before. You'd think tar is sticky right? Wrong. Pour that shit down and it's slick as oil; it's when you try to pull yourself out of it that it sticks. It doesn't wash out, you can't scrape it off, and before you know it you'll find your bag glued to your ass because somehow tar found its way onto your back pocket.

Batman's suit isn't black for stealth, no it's black to hide all the tar stains he's gotten from jumping onto a newly tarred roof and his feet slipping out from under him like he's on ice. Alfred's had to physically cut him out of his cape before when its stuck to his suit, every Robin has had to take a shower with paint-thinner after face-planting into fresh tar.

#batman #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #stephanie brown #damian wayne #carrie kelley #batfam #listen i spent half a year working for a slum lord and it nearly killed me like 5 seperate times #but I will FOREVER be salty about the steel-toe boots/jeans/bag i ruined tarring roofs for him #and the fact my hands are permanently weathered from all the paint thinner i washed them in to get the tar off #bc he was too cheap to by Orange #the amount of robin costumes Alfred would have had to toss from tar alone is enough to drive a man mad #vicshit