World's End (comics)
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Cover of WildCats vol. 3, 1 (Sept 2008).Art by Neil Googe.
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| Publisher | Wildstorm | ||
| Publication date | September – December 2008 | ||
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| Stormwatch PHD: World's End | |||
"World's End" is a 2008-2009 comic book crossover storyline published by Wildstorm and taking place in the Wildstorm Universe. The event takes place in the issues of all of Wildstorm's Wildstorm Universe ongoing series.
Both flagship titles, The Authority and Wildcats, were slated to be written by Grant Morrison with Wildcats drawn by Jim Lee and The Authority drawn by Gene Ha, but the pair encountered serious delays. Only one issue of Wildcats and two of The Authority ever shipped. Eventually, amid disapproving fan reaction, both series were cancelled.
Before the announcement that Morrison's series would not continue, Christos Gage filled in with The Authority: Prime. The series shipped promptly, and Gage was hired to write a new cross-universe series Wildstorm: Armageddon. Armageddon comprised six one-shots based on six of the relaunched titles, and led into successive bi-weekly limited series Wildstorm: Revelations and Number of the Beast. These culminated in the World's End storyline, beginning July 2008, which documented worldwide catastrophe and saw several Wildstorm titles relaunched with new creative teams and a new status quo for the universe.
Wildstorm editor Ben Abernathy described this storyline as a new direction for the Wildstorm Universe:
Various heroes receive a warning, purporting to be from the heroine Void, several years in the future. She shows them a post-apocalyptic world, and asks them to help prevent it from coming about.
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