{"id":981,"date":"2004-09-06T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=981"},"modified":"2004-09-06T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T09:44:00","slug":"were-not-superfucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2004\/09\/06\/were-not-superfucks\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not superfucks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through a bit of a comic buying frenzy recently, largely to fuel my Wolverine obsession. An absolute age ago I bought what turns out to have been the very first Stormwatch, and while I was buying X-Men comics I figured I&#8217;d get the first couple of Stormwatch: Team Achilles graphic novels while I was at it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1401201032\/qid=1094459307\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/026-2643186-6818054\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/frog\/graphics\/stormwatch1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stormwatch Vol 1. Click to buy this from Amazon\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Volume 1 is a rip-roaring read, following the initial coming-together of the United Nations Stormwatch team, an elite group of people from all over the world whose job it is to kill super powered beings engaged in international terrorism. &quot;We&#8217;re not superfucks. We kill superfucks.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of humour in it. For one thing, their budget has been cut because the US doesn&#8217;t want anyone competing with &quot;their boys&quot; and other countries consider SPBs as a military resource. This means that instead of the transporter devices that other groups have for instantaneous travel, Stormwatch have &#8216;Project Entry&#8217;: a sort of wormhole that requires them to cross through a world where 8 million dead bodies are slowly decomposing. Unsurprisingly, people try to avoid needing to use it. The artwork is at times homo-erotic, and occasionally it&#8217;s difficult to work out exactly what is going on, but the story is very deftly written. I&#8217;m not sure where this fits in to the <i>The Authority<\/i> and Ellis&#8217; <i>Stormwatch<\/i> saga, but maybe it&#8217;s time I found out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1401201032\/qid=1094459307\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/026-2643186-6818054\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/frog\/graphics\/stormwatch2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stormwatch Volume 2. Click here to buy at Amazon.\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Volume 2 develops the characters further, especially that of Jukka (my current personal favourite), at which point we discover just why he looks like &quot;he cut himself shaving in the womb&quot; and why there are only 2000 Finns left in the world. If you are a tough-nut Finn who can empathically feel the pain of anyone in a 3km radius then yes, you probably will threaten the local pancreatic cancer support group until they move a couple of miles away, just to get a decent night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1401201237\/qid=1094459307\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/026-2643186-6818054\">Volume 3<\/a>, as Volume 2 ended on a real cliffhanger, but unfortunately the demand for it was so low that the volume has been cancelled. Our local comic shop doesn&#8217;t have all the issues of the current volume in stock (nor Greg Rucka&#8217;s Wolverine: The Native American, dammit), so I guess I&#8217;m going to have to see if I can track them down in Bristol&#8217;s Forbidden Planet.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re fed up with lack of realism in your superhero comics, and want a dark, twisted, bitter and cynical take on what would really happen if people developed superpowers, you really can&#8217;t go wrong with Stormwatch: Team Achilles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through a bit of a comic buying frenzy recently, largely to fuel my Wolverine obsession. 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