DC Comics has been on a roll lately with its announcement of its DC’s Finest collections and a host of compendiums of out of print material that fans have been clamoring for. Now, as James Gunn is about to make a movie of The Authority, DC is publishing a compendium of the full run of Warren Ellis’s Stormwatch, the Wildstorm team comic from the 1990s that redefined the superhero genre.
Warren Ellis said of the volume on his blog:
DC Comics have announced STORMWATCH: THE ROAD TO AUTHORITY COMPENDIUM, for release in the first week of January 2025. This collects all the work I wrote for STORMWATCH across two volumes. Which apparently totals six hundred and fifty six pages. A number that I find kind of scary. It will cost sixty US dollar, which is also kind of scary, but at 656 pages you can also use it as a weapon, a small performance stage or the foundation for a large outbuilding.
This is all work done in the 1990s. Mike Heisler brought me into Wildstorm, and later on Scott Dunbier took over wrangling me. Scott and I have had our share of arguments over the years, but I’m glad to say we remain friends – Scott just left IDW, where he’s been for many years, to start his own venture, and I am very much looking forward to seeing what he does next.
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The main artist on STORMWATCH was Tom Raney, and I have incredible respect both for his work and his stoic endurance of every stupid idea I stuffed into those scripts. God, I once made him do Joe Shuster, Will Eisner and Jack Kirby in a single episode. (Now that I check, I did that more than once! And had Gina Going approximate a Frank Hampson colouring effect one time! God, I’m sorry, everybody.) He’s one of those artists I wish I were still working with today.
While he later says that the James Gunn film will likely be more based on Mark Millar and Frank Quietly’s work than the Warren Ellis and Tom Raney run, it’s still a welcome sight for fans to have this volume collected.
Stormwatch still does not have collections of its first 36 issues prior to Warren Ellis and Tom Raney’s revival, however. Its three years prior had some of the original Image Comics’ best fun. Will DC and Wildstorm ever move to collect these? Leave a comment and let us know what you think.
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Surprised given they cancelled him but to be fair these comics weren’t great and he helped promote degeneracy in the industry don’t forget the weird gay stuff he forced in his creation the authority and he constantly tried “dunking” on the chuds with his left wing views.
Jon please cover EVS and his recent attacks on others as well as his lies and his friendship with leftists pedophile defenders Dick Masterson and Vito.