Stormwatch #1-6 (Comic Review) and an update

For those of you who have been following me for a while, you'll know that this will be the 100th uploaded article onto this site. However, this isn't a celebration in itself as a number of those uploads aren't reviews, some are updates, short stories or in one case an attempt to promote an artist. As such this week's one won't be the 100th anniversary, that's going to come later.

What this does feature though is an announcement that I've joined another reviewing website, http://thefoundingfields.com/ which will cover most of the paperback reviews of novels, comics and such. While all of the film, video game and a few of the longer in depth comic reviews will still be posted on paranerds.com, novels and the more condensed comic reviews will be submitted through the The Founding Fields and only posted on that site.

As this review of the first volume of the New 52's Stormwatch reboot will be posted over there with only a short teaser introduction here.

If there’s one thing to truly credit about New 52’s incarnation of Stormwatch it’s that it takes its ideas and hits the ground running. Even as the reader is given the impression of how they differ from the likes of other superpowered teams they are fighting the sorts of threats which the other new heroes have barely begun to encounter. The same sorts of threats which they have been battling for seemingly centuries, time and time again without the help of anyone like Green Lantern or Superman.

As Jack Hawksmoor sums up in the first issue – “Do we look like “super heroes”? They’re amateurs. We’re the professionals.”

This line does lead me to question just why several characters turn up in obviously superhero outfits but it does help introduce the idea of this incarnation of Stormwatch. Originally Wildstorm’s major superhero team, this version is an elite organisation operating beyond any earth government. One which has been defending earth from threats both within and without since the middle ages in secret, their first incarnation actually being the Demon Knights. Effectively they’re the NDCU’s Torchwood, but with less alien freaky sex and much bigger enemies. That latter point is made exceptionally clear from what they face in these opening issues.

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Stormwatch and all related characters and media are owned by DC Comics.