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Authority:Prime #4

by Jessica

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Have I gone crazy with the reviews? Yes, yes I have. I’m trying to review every issue in February, for more info on the madness, see my blog at http://www.comicbook journal.net/the-pop-culture-superhero-collison/. I took a looking over in the Wildstorm direction and read Authority: Prime #4. What I discovered as a comics fan was appalling. This title is still stuck in the mid to late nineties, Wildcats era. The plot, with one team, basically fighting their evil clones to the death was tired. The characters were from what I saw, unoriginal, looking like X-Men knock-offs. And the art was well, grossly undefined and devoid of any excitement or intensity whatsoever. I have to say that with the name the Authority I expected far more. Shame on you Wildstorm editors for letting a promising title that flourished under the helm of Warren Ellis, flounder in the hands of for lack of a better words, an amateur creative team. What is this issue missing? Just about everything. There are no exciting plot twists, no moments of interest, there is nothing there to make me, as a critic first and fan last, want to pick up the next issue. Hopefully this issue was the end of a mini-series, a number four of four or something. The best thing Wildstorm can hope for with this book is the printing costs didn’t outweigh the sales. I can barely give this title a three out of ten. Small press does it better in this case. This is what February is all about though, reviewing the good, bad, and the boring. There’s still more to come. We’re still in the A’s.


One Response to “Authority:Prime #4”

  1. AC Says:

    I’m perfectly happy reading my old Authority collection. Didn’t even bother too much with this.

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