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Sic transit Authority

Sic transit Authority DC has announced in its 10/15 newsletter a continued grinding-to-a-halt of The Authority, largely because of the events of 9-11. Between already-drawn-by-Bryan-Hitch huge expanses of destruction in…

Sic transit Authority

DC has announced in its 10/15 newsletter a continued grinding-to-a-halt of The Authority, largely because of the events of 9-11. Between already-drawn-by-Bryan-Hitch huge expanses of destruction in New York (in The Authority: Widescreen), and a storyline for the main title by Brian Azzarello having to do with “philosophical and religious belief systems,” DC’s pulled the plug, at least for the time being. The last few issues will trickle out to the end of the year.

While something more mellow could be done, creator Warren Ellis noted:

[F]or it to work, it must be callous. It must be horrible and violent and must be gleeful about what it’s doing. If it’s not cranked up to ridiculous volume, viciously insulting to the genre that spawned it and blatantly absurd in its scale and its disregard for human life … it’s just another super-hero team book. You can find those anywhere.
[…] Personally, I think the audience is ready for it. It’s escapism and it’s revenge fantasy on the biggest possible scale. But the people who make the decisions clearly believe otherwise. I mean, there’s no bad guy. They want to do what they believe is right. It’s just that I believe that stuff exploding and people getting kicked is always right.

I sorta had a feeling things were heading here. I thought it was going to be a creative blind alley, but, post-9-11, what sells (and what’s shocking-in-an-entertaining-way, vs. shocking-in-a-disturbing-way) is all different. At least for a while.

I suppose The Authority in Hawaii wouldn’t have sold very well in January 1942, either.

(Extended bits here from Comics Buyer’s Guide #1459, 2 Nov 01)

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