Stormwatch #1
This, however, is the book which
should be the most out of place. It featured substitutes for Superman,
Batman, Captain Atom etc because they couldn't use them and featured the
spaces out of the universe as run-off between worlds using a ship too
big for any universe as the maguffin. In the reboot we have a ship in
"hyperspace", which looks like an attempt to rationalise The Carrier,
but thee's no context for how they got out there. There's a flashback to
previous Stormwatches through history, mention of a "Shadow Cabinet"
and a giant eye inside the Moon.
I
wonder if the incoming thing it refers to is what Luthor notices in
Action? (There's also a reference to Superman #1, not yet published.)
Anyway, The Engineer and Jack Hawksmoor are still there, they're trying
to recruit Apollo and it looks like The Midnighter is on the other side.
Jenny Quantum is in the book, but doesn't look like she's in Stormwatch
yet, whereas the Martian Manhunter is.
I'm not really sure it's
worth trying to rationalise this, but I'm sure it'll make sense
eventually. I guess I have faith in Paul Cornell to get it right
eventually, but this is pretty slow going even if it does seem to be
about the Moon turning into a monster.
One for the fans, I think.
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