Product Description

A member of the awesomely powerful super-team, The Authority, with powers built and honed by a mad genius and designed to be the most dangerous man on Earth, the Midnighter is not to be messed with!So it's not hard to imagine how pleased he is at being abducted, and having a bomb implanted in his heart (and his backup heart removed), all towards a mission that sounds ridiculous, if not entirely without amusement: travel back in time and kill Hitler! But there are other players involved, and they don't want history changed...Garth Ennis ("Preacher", "War Story") and fan-favourite penciller Chris Sprouse ("Tom Strong") present the Authority star's all-action first solo outing! Warning: This title is for adults only.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #356578 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
"Fantastic. Do yourself a favour and check it all out." - Jockey Slut "About as much malevolent fun as a superhero book can be." - SFX Best Ever"

About the Author
Garth Ennis is the award-winning writer of Preacher, Punisher, Hellblazer, Hitman, Judge Dredd and War Stories. He is much in demand for his hard-edged, wickedly humorous style. Chris Sprouse has worked on such diverse titles as HammerLocke, Glory, Legion of Super-Heroes, Starman, Legionnaires and WildC.A.T.s/Aliens. He has won wide criticial acclaim for his work on Tom Strong (with Alan Moore).

Customer Reviews

hard, brutal and clever
Ennis is not an author I regularly follow, but I am a huge fan of the whole Authority franchise. Amazingly he has preserved the "bizarre superhero family in a giant spaceship" feel of The Authority and yet , of course, managed to weld-on a story about WWI and WWII.
Once it gets going the action is relentless, surprising and grim, yet the dialogue crackles and brings in ideas at a rate of knots, even just focussing on a (admittedly the most interesting) single member of the Authority. I won't spoil the story but the ending is a huge satisfying twist that you should have seen coming a mile off, but somehow never occurred to you.
Overall - amazing, roll on book 2

What a waste...
This arc seems to be just a way of making money with no real attention to the character depths or the fans. If you are expecting a good Midnighter escapade in the world of the authority and storm watch then don't bother buying this book. Massive disappointment.