The Authority
| The Authority | |
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The Authority, as featured on the cover for the Under New Management trade paperback (Nov. 2000). From left to right, the Doctor, Swift, Apollo, Jenny Sparks, Midnighter, the Engineer, and Jack Hawksmoor, with the infant Jenny Quantum at the back. Art by Frank Quitely.
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| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Wildstorm (DC Comics) |
| First appearance | The Authority (vol. 1) #1 (May 1999) |
| Created by |
Warren Ellis Bryan Hitch |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Team |
| Base(s) | The Carrier |
| Agent(s) |
Christine Trelane Deathblow Engineer Flint Freefall Grifter The High Jack Hawksmoor Rainmaker Swift Former members: Apollo Doctor (Jeroen Thornedike) Doctor (Habib ben Hassan) Jenny Quantum Jenny Sparks Midnighter Rose Tattoo |
| The Authority | |
| Series publication information | |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(Vol. 1) May 1999 – July 2002 (Vol. 2) July 2003 – November 2004 (Revolution) December 2004 – December 2005 (Vol. 3: The Lost Year) December 2006 – October 2010 (Vol. 4) October 2008 – December 2010 |
| Number of issues |
(Vol. 1): 29 (Vol. 2): 15 (Revolution): 12 (Vol. 3)/The Lost Year: 12 (Vol. 4): 29 |
| Creative team | |
| Creator(s) |
Warren Ellis Bryan Hitch |
The Authority is a superhero comic book series published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint. It was created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, and follows the adventures of the Authority, a superhero team mainly composed of Ellis-created characters from Stormwatch.
The founding members of the Authority were:
Following the "Outer Dark" storyarc, Jenny Sparks was replaced with:
After the "Revolution" maxi-series, new members of the Authority included:
Beginning with #18 of volume four the team roster underwent a major change. Jack Hawksmoor, Swift and Engineer remained on the team, where they were joined by new members:
The Authority's base of operations is the Carrier, a sentient, gigantic, interdimensional "shiftship" existing everywhere on Earth at the same time and capable of moving through every imaginable plane of existence.
In 1999, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch created the Authority, a team of superheroes who got the job done by any means necessary. The original line-up consisted of Jenny Sparks, a British woman who could generate and turn into electricity; Jack Hawksmoor, who was psychically bonded to cities in order to communicate with them and receive powers from them; Swift, a Tibetan woman who possessed wings and sharp talons; Apollo, a bio-engineered Superman pastiche; Midnighter, a bio-engineered Batman pastiche who possessed the ability to foresee his opponents' moves in combat; The Engineer, a scientist who had replaced her blood with nine pints of nanotechnology and could create solid objects with it; and The Doctor, a Dutch drug addict and shaman who possessed the combined powers of the hundreds of shamans who came before him. On the creation of the series, Ellis noted
"One of the reasons I turned their STORMWATCH into THE AUTHORITY is that I found out that, despite the fact that no-one was buying STORMWATCH, they kept it going because they liked reading it in the [Wildstorm] office and wanted to keep me employed. And I felt so bloody awful about that, and at the same time had been so struck by Bryan Hitch’s STORMWATCH issues, that the train of thought that led to THE AUTHORITY began."
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