David Henry
Nov 1, 2008, 07:56 am
The Authority: Revolution #1
October 2004
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 1
Story Title: Come The Revolution
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
First Appearance: Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty
The Authority has usurped the United States government and controls the country. They are the leaders of the free world.
Members of the team uphold their obligations of meeting with political leaders across the globe, but they aren’t exactly enjoying the verbal sparring with politicians as much as the physical confrontations that placed the Authority in power.
During a meeting with the Senator, Majority Whip, and a Southern clergyman, Midnighter fantasizes killing all three men. The politicians chastise Midnighter, telling him the Authority’s actions in taking over the country are unconstitutional. They also oppose his legalization of hemp, which Midnighter says is a step in revitalizing the shrinking American middle-class economy.
When the clergyman opposes the Doctor’s Church of the Shaman religion, calling it a separation of church and state, Midnighter punches him to the floor. Midnighter then opens a shift-door to the White House Oval Office to speak with Jack Hawksmoor, the United States President.
Midnighter begins to question the Authority’s reign of power. He feels the public only accepts the Authority out of fear, not because they necessarily agree with the Authority’s politics.
Meanwhile, a riot brews in the streets of Philadelphia. A man dressed as Paul Revere speaks to a large crowd of Authority protesters, and incites them into a revolt. The rioters plan to take back the country by any means necessary.
The Doctor’s Church of the Shaman is the first target, as many of church’s shamanist followers are slaughtered. When riot police attempt to stop the attacks, they are killed by Paul Revere and his superhuman companions.
When the Pennsylvania senator sends in the National Guard, they are mysteriously swayed into joining the revolution against the Authority instead of stopping the riot.
When Hawksmoor gets word of the riot, he instructs the team to meet him in Philadelphia. They will attempt to quell the riot and deal with the superhuman element that has surfaced.
Swift is the first to arrive and is attacked by two members of the superhuman group. An explosion by one of the members sends Swift reeling out of the air. Hawksmoor uses his power to convince two buildings to catch Swift before she falls to her death. The fall is still nearly fatal, and Swift is left bloody and unconscious from the attack.
The Carrier, which now serves as a home for Apollo and Midnighter to raise Jenny Quantum, opens shift-doors to transport most of the Authority to Philadelphia. But when Midnighter walks through his shift-door, he is greeted by an elder version of his lover, Apollo, who introduces Midnighter to a future world the Authority apparently has created.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Johnny Rocketman
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Paul Revere
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #2
November 2004
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 2
Story Title: Ghosts of Authority Yet To Come
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
The Authority arrives on the scene in Philadelphia, but the riots have already stopped. Hundreds have been murdered, and the city is in ruin. No sign of Paul Revere and his followers can be found.
The Engineer surmises the group, estimated at 500 large, must have teleported. But she can’t find any clues to reveal their new location. Apollo flies over the major cities on the east coast of the United States, but finds no signs of the rioting group, either.
In space, the Doctor performs surgery on Swift aboard the Carrier. He repairs Swift’s damaged brain and fractured skull, and stabilizes her.
Meanwhile, the elder Apollo introduces Midnighter to the future 45 years after the Authority remade the world in its image. Apollo tells Midnighter that in the process of creating a utopia, the Authority forgot to factor in free will. Citizens didn’t choose the course of their government – the Authority forced it upon them.
The world did revolt, but the Authority was too strong to overcome. The Authority’s power, Apollo says, became a monster that needed to be fed. Eventually, the world gave way to the Authority and bowed to the team’s new world order.
In this future, Midnighter and Hawksmoor argued constantly. Midnighter wanted to give the government back to the people, but Hawksmoor, as President, refused. After Hawksmoor disbanded the United Nations, he and Midnighter eventually came to blows and Midnighter killed him. But not before Hawksmoor damaged Midnighter’s implants, which altered his personality, the elder Apollo reveals.
Midnighter took over as President and had the Engineer institutionalized. The liquid machinery was removed from her body to prevent revenge for Hawksmoor’s murder, as she and Jack were lovers.
Swift quit the team to live on a mountaintop in Tibet, and later died. The Doctor and Jenny Quantum simply disappeared through a door into the multiverse, and never returned. Apollo says he continued to love Midnighter, and was in denial of his brain damage. Eventually, Apollo was later dismissed by Midnighter, along with the rest of the team, as his looks began to fade. Midnighter himself becomes a tyrannical dictator of the world, establishing a fascist utopia.
The elder Apollo then reveals why Midnighter was brought to the future. The first real revolt against the Authority was led by a super-powered group of patriots. The revolt in present-day Philadelphia is the first sign of the future Apollo warns against.
The elder Apollo gives Midnighter a simple mission: break up the Authority to prevent the future Apollo has shown him.
Suddenly, drones sent by the future Midnighter begin to destroy the Carrier. The future Midnighter knows his past self is aboard the Carrier, and he understands Apollo’s plans to undo his coming into power. Before the Carrier is sufficiently damaged, the elder Apollo opens a shift-door to take Midnighter back to present-day Philadelphia. The elder Apollo passionately kisses Midnighter and wishes him luck, before sending him off.
Midnighter walks through the shift-door and appears in Philadelphia a few feet away from Hawksmoor. With the rioters nowhere to be found, the team regroups on the Carrier to assess what they’re up against. The Carrier provides intel on the superhuman group that led the revolt in Philadelphia.
The group is revealed to be Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty, a group of post-humans with a patriotic theme and the powers to match. Paul Revere’s power of super charisma is revealed to have influenced the riot. Revere’s team consists of Maiden America, Fallout, Johnny Rocketman, and Dyno-Mite, whose explosion nearly killed Swift in Philadelphia.
The Engineer’s research reveals that every member of the Sons of Liberty was elderly and in a nursing home just six weeks beforehand. That is, until a mysterious figure appeared to each of the group and teleported them away, de-aged them and augmented their power levels. The mysterious figure was not captured on camera due to a cloaking device.
The Authority ends the meeting and Hawksmoor schedules a news conference to call out the Sons of Liberty. He wants a confrontation.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Johnny Rocketman
Paul Revere
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #3
December 2004
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 3
Story Title: The Turning Tide
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
The Sons of Liberty are aboard a ship with their mysterious leader and benefactor. The ship’s virtual reality mechanism broadcasts menacing images of the Authority across the skies in every city, inciting hatred against the team.
While Hawksmoor enters his press conference to publicly censure the Sons of Liberty’s actions, Midnighter steps his plan into action.
Realizing he cannot perform his mission alone, Midnighter enters the Carrier’s control room and convinces the Carrier to let him interface with its consciousness. He downloads the memories of the future shown him by the elder Apollo. A confused Jenny Quantum witnesses Midnighter’s interfacing with the Carrier.
Meanwhile, the Sons of Liberty have staged another revolt in Seattle. More shamanists are slaughtered in their churches. When the Authority arrives in Seattle, the rioters are long gone, again without a trace.
Several more revolts break out over the next few days. Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis are hit with similar damaging and deadly results.
The Authority is befuddled. They can’t find the Sons of Liberty and their followers anywhere. But the Doctor taps into the earth and anticipates their next attack. Dallas is the only place in American that isn’t sterile and without feeling.
Apollo is the first to arrive in Dallas to confront the rioters. Paul Revere catches Apollo off guard and knocks him for a loop with Maiden America’s mallet. When the rest of the Authority arrive, the Sons of Liberty have vanished. Apollo reveals the throng of rioters disappeared through a shift-door, exactly like the one their Carrier creates to transport the Authority, only their shift-door was blue instead of yellow.
The Engineer concludes the Sons of Liberty must have their own version of the Carrier.
Midnighter begins to rip into the team, scolding it for its self-righteousness. Midnighter chides the Doctor for taking on a messiah complex with his new religion faster than Hawksmoor appropriated his own brand of politics.
Hawksmoor calls the Midnighter a homophobic remark and the two fight. Their fight makes the news, and rumors of a rift amongst the team begin to spread.
The Engineer breaks up the fight, and Midnighter walks away from the team.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Johnny Rocketman
Paul Revere
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #4
January 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 4
Story Title: The Revolution Will Be…
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor and Darlene Royer of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Swift awakens from her injuries and approaches the Engineer in the Carrier’s bay. The Engineer has been searching for the Carrier owned by the Sons of Liberty with no results, and is exhausted. Swift has been unconscious for five days, so the Engineer catches her up on events.
The Doctor visits the Garden of Ancestral Memory, where the souls of all the previous Doctors reside. Jeroen seeks consolation for his attempt to create a new world religion, as well as information on how Paul Revere’s team is blocking his communication with the earth.
Meanwhile, the revolt against the Authority has grown to a critical mass. Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty are fully empowered and have brought the rioters to the White House lawns.
The Carrier transports the Authority to the White House, and the team confronts the Sons of Liberty and their followers. The Doctor teleports the rioters to a dimension full of manure, which leaves the Authority free to deal with Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty directly.
The Authority are winning the battle, when Dyno-Mite explodes in front of the Doctor, severely injuring him. With the Doctor injured and out, his spell reverses and the mass of rioters reappear on the White House lawns. The Engineer manages to capture Johnny Rocketman and transport him back to the Carrier; she wants to study how he was de-aged and augmented.
While the Engineer runs tests on her captive, Jenny Quantum is visited by a future incarnation of herself, which is reflected in the glass window of the Carrier. This teen-aged version of Jenny confronts her five-year-old counterpart to let her know that she has the power to stop the riots.
Suddenly, Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty revert to their true elderly ages. Apollo pushes back the rioters with a ring of fire, while the Authority tends to the crippled Sons of Liberty.
Dyno-Mite and Fallout still have their powers, however. And when Dyno-Mite explodes in front of Fallout, his nuclear-powered teammate, a massive explosion ignites the nation’s capital, devastating the surrounding area.
Five-year-old Jenny Quantum appears just in time to save the Authority by protecting them from the explosion for force field bubbles. But, inexperienced in the use of her powers, she is unable to save the rioters in the area, all of whom are killed.
Midnighter hugs and consoles a tearful Jenny, as the team stands in awe of the destruction around them.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
The First Doctor
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Johnny Rocketman
Paul Revere
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #5
February 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 5
Story Title: Like A House Of Cards
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor and Darlene Royer of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Fallout’s explosion has killed more than 15,000 people in Washington D.C.
The media continue to report the devastation for weeks, as the Authority grow reclusive on the Carrier and hold long meetings. The team has refused to face the media, despite the nation's demand for answers about the destruction of its capital.
During one meeting, members of the team begin to blame each other for the devastation, and in-fighting ensues. Midnighter chimes in, asking the team to consider what it has become. He reminds everyone that Jenny Sparks created the team to protect the world, but to remain neutral in its politics and progression. Instead, the Authority has become its own politic and has ruled the world as dictators, if not war criminals.
Hawksmoor blames Midnighter for the devastation in Washington D.C. Jack insists Midnighter, with his ability to see every possibility in a fight, should have foreseen the events that led to the explosion, and been able to prevent them.
Recovered from his injuries, the Doctor has taken to heart Midnighter’s observation that he has become too much of a messiah. He turns his remaining shamanist churches into butterflies, ending his religion across the world.
Midnighter tells the team he thinks the time has come and gone for the Authority. The team has outlived its purpose and should disband. He takes the first step by leaving the team. He packs his bags and orders the Carrier to create a door to take him anywhere away from the team.
A tearful Jenny Quantum intercepts Midnighter before he leaves. Jenny attempts to make her father stay, but he refuses. He tells her he must go, that it's the only way.
Finally, Hawksmoor addresses the public. He says the Authority take full responsibility for the damage in Washington D.C., and has decided to step down from power. An interim government has been assigned and free elections will take place within a month.
Meanwhile, U.S. government forces meet to discuss the Authority’s dissolution, as well as their own return to power. As the men speak, a man draped in a dark cloak enters the room via a blue shift-door.
The man lowers his hood and speaks.
"Allow me to introduce myself, gentlemen. My name is Henry Bendix, and I'll be making the big decisions around here from this point on."
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #6
March 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 6
Story Title: Whatever Happened To The Authority?
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Death: The Doctor (Jeroen Thornedike)
Three years have passed since the destruction of Washington D.C.
News shows recount the history of the Authority: from their days as Earth’s protectors to the team's celebrity phase to their phase of government dictatorship. But the question that lingers in the minds of Americans is simple: What ever happened to the Authority?
The nation’s capital has been rebuilt with a memorial for those who died, and the Washington Monument has been reconstructed. Everything has been rebuilt or is in the final stages of construction, but the Authority is nowhere to be found.
The Authority has disbanded.
Midnighter drowns his sorrows at a bar in Moscow. He then heads out to an alley to bust up a transaction between Russian hoodlums and aliens, who are attempting to acquire a device that obliterates all organic matter within a 10-mile radius.
Midnighter kills the Russian thugs. The aliens declare inter-dimensional immunity – which doesn’t stop Midnighter from killing them, too, and leaving a bloody mess in the snow.
The Engineer and Jack Hawksmoor live alone on the Carrier. The Engineer enjoys life’s bliss by taking the Carrier on a joyride throughout the dimensions. Hawksmoor, still the King of Cities, takes out trivial foes in Tokyo for exercise.
Apollo and Jenny live in San Francisco, and have made an agreement to provide Jenny’s services to the government upon her maturity.
At a monastery in Tibet, Swift recommits herself to pacifism and meditation. She has not given an interview in two years, and protects her privacy at all costs.
One night, Apollo visits Swift, and the pair flies around the peaceful Tibetan skies. Apollo invites Swift to the Doctor’s memorial service to meet with Jenny, but she refuses to be seen in public.
Rumored to have reverted back to his addictive ways after the dissolution of his churches, the Doctor, whose full name was Jeroen Thorndike, reportedly died of a drug overdose. However, a new Doctor has yet to appear on the scene, which is unusual, as a new Doctor typically replaces one that dies.
At the Doctor’s grave, Jenny and Apollo lay flowers. The press hound them for information on the other former members of the Authority. They ask about Midnighter, in particular.
Jenny suddenly disappears. Apparently, her proximity to Jeroen's grave has given her access to the Doctor’s Garden of Ancestral Memory. Jenny meets the First Doctor and asks to speak to Jeroen. But Jeroen is not in the Garden, which could mean that he's not dead.
Jenny frantically returns to the Doctor’s gravesite to stand at Apollo’s side.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Engineer
The First Doctor
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #7
April 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 7
Story Title: Whatever Happened To The Authority?
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
After a trip to the doctor’s office for a physical, 8-year-old Jenny Quantum arrives home in an indifferent mood. She doesn’t like being talked down to like a child, though she is one.
While having a minor fit about her situation in her bedroom, Jenny’s 14-year-old teenage incarnation appears on her closet door mirror. The teen Jenny invites her younger counterpart into the mirror for a little chat. This is their second meeting.
Meanwhile, Apollo telecommunicates with Jack Hawksmoor and the Engineer. He tells the couple that Jenny is getting harder and harder to manage, as she teleports away so often. He has no idea where she goes.
Apollo also tells his former teammates that Jenny did not encounter Jeroen in the Garden of Ancestral Memory, when the pair visited his grave. The trio decides that Jeroen’s death is suspicious. Jack decides to investigate, and asks Apollo to have Jenny bring the Doctor’s predecessors to the corporeal world to be interviewed.
The two Jennies arrive at a fantastical land the teen Jenny calls the Infinite City. It is the location of Jenny Quantum's predecessors. After a quick stroll around the streets and run-ins with earlier Jennies, teenage Jenny Quantum introduces adolescent Jenny Quantum to Jenny Sparks, whom the young girl immediately recognizes.
Young Jenny Quantum has been brought to Infinite City so that Jenny Sparks may answer her questions on how to reach the next step in her evolution. Sparks also reveals that Jenny Quantum is more powerful than all previous Jennies combined, because she may be the last of their lineage.
Sparks, who was the Spirit of the 20th Century, informs young Jenny Quantum that the odds are stacked against her. As the Spirit of the 21st Century, young Jenny lives in a time when mankind has the knowledge and means to destroy the world.
Young Jenny Quantum tells Jenny Sparks that she discovered a man spying on her, and used different parts of her eyes to see him. She creates a hologram of the man, whom Jenny Sparks immediately recognizes as Henry Bendix, her former boss and head of Stormwatch. Bendix presumably was dead. Sparks presumes Bendix is behind all of the disorder and chaos surrounding the Authority.
Now that young Jenny knows who she is dealing with, the young pair of Jennies leave Infinite City and travel back to the mirror through which they entered in young Jenny’s bedroom.
Teen Jenny reveals a few things more to her young counterpart: the Infinite City’s similarity to the Doctor’s Garden of Ancestral Memory isn’t a coincidence. Young Jenny’s visit to the Garden inspired her to create a place that allowed her to receive guidance from her own predecessors; the concept didn’t exist until she created it.
Also, the 21st century is known for kids that want to grow up too fast, and that her teen counterpart is simply a mechanism of her needing to be older and more experienced to handle her upcoming obstacles.
When young Jenny passes back through the mirror to her bedroom, she finds that she is transformed to her teenage incarnation.
Apollo enters Jenny’s bedroom to find his 8-year-old daughter is now 14-years-old.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Engineer
The First Doctor
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Jenny Sparks (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=34744)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #8
May 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 8
Story Title: The Shape Of Things
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome and Randy Mayor
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Shocked by Jenny's new appearance, Apollo immediately tells his daughter to revert back to her younger age. Jenny pulls a pack of cigarettes out of her back pocket, lights one, and explains to her father that she needed to grow up to handle the upcoming situations the Authority are about to encounter. Her aging is part of the plan.
Using the smoke from her cigarette, Jenny reveals the identity of the perpetrator causing the Authority’s problems. She forms the smoke cloud into the shape of Henry Bendix’s face. Apollo immediately recognizes Bendix and curses.
Bendix has a surveillance team outside their home listening in on the conversation. The two men relay to Bendix that he’s been found out. Jenny detects the transmission to Bendix, and Apollo flies outside and incinerates the van and the men inside.
Bendix initiates a swarm tactic on Apollo and Jenny’s home. But when his men arrive, they don’t find anyone inside. In fact, the carbon readings for the home suggest no one has lived there for 200 years. Bendix assures the men that their equipment is fine. Jenny Quantum is simply starting to live up to her name earlier than he expected. Either way, he says he’s fully prepared for every contingency.
Jenny and Apollo have escaped to the Bleed, and are onboard the Carrier. Jenny reveals that the Washington D.C. mishap is all due to Bendix’s machinations. Convinced of Jenny’s story, Hawksmoor and the Engineer agree to gather the old team to take on Bendix.
Jenny visits Swift in Tibet to brief her on the news. Swift is hesitant to leave behind her pacifist life, but decides to rejoin the team. In Hong Kong, Apollo visits Midnighter in the middle of his disrupting an arms deal run by investment bankers. Midnighter kills the arms dealer, but before he can kill the investment bankers, Apollo incinerates them.
Midnighter immediately is on the offensive. He tells Apollo they’re relationship is finished. Apollo tells Midnighter his arrival has nothing to do with them; it's about Bendix. But Midnighter doesn’t believe it. He saw Jenny Sparks electrocute Bendix years ago.
Bendix or no Bendix, Midnighter sticks to his guns. He will not rejoin the Authority, as he knows what the future has in store should the team reform. Jenny appears and convinces Midnighter to visit the Carrier, when she tells him that Bendix has been spying on her.
Aboard the Carrier, the Authority sits down for a round-table discussion. Jenny asks to be debriefed about Henry Bendix. When the members of the team begin quibbling about their gathering, Jenny steps atop the table and declares that she will run things going forward. It’s time to find Bendix and remind him who he’s messing with.
The Authority is back.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #9
June 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 9
Story Title: Life's Illusions
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
First Appearance: Habib Ben Hassan
Origin: Habib Ben Hassan
Aboard his own Carrier ship in the Bleed, Henry Bendix is a worried man.
Bendix is able to view live streaming video of events onboard the Authority's Carrier, and witnesses Jenny’s declaration to find and destroy him. The intervention of Jenny Quantum presents a problem for Bendix. Her involvement reduces his well-laid schemes to estimates with no guarantee of success.
Bendix’s female assistant asks why Bendix didn’t just join the Authority, as they seemed to be on the right path. Bendix disagrees. The Authority attempted to achieve peace through government. Bendix believes the way to peace is through corporation. Attach money to an issue and it gains importance. He says the Authority never understood that, which is why they failed.
Bendix and his female assistant, Rose Tattoo, stroll about the ship and stop at a cell door. Rose peers in and sees a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, who lies still, suspended in stasis. Bendix explains that he is the next Doctor to replace the Jeroen Thorndike, whom Rose earlier killed.
Rose seduced Jeroen inside a Berlin nightclub. The pair had sex, and Rose's death touch slowly killed the Doctor. Near death, Jeroen was delivered to Bendix, who captured his essence in a stasis tube, and used that essence as a compass to find the next Doctor.
Bendix arrived in Palestine a day after the young, new Doctor received his powers. Ironically, the new Doctor received his powers moments before he intended to perform a suicide bombing.
Within 24 hours of his anointment, the young Doctor negotiated peace in the Middle East. When Bendix approached the young Doctor to work for him, the young man refused and Bendix incapacitated him, taking advantage of the young Doctor's inexperience with his new abilities.
Bendix reveals his ace. While the Authority may have anticipated a new incarnation of Jenny Sparks for the next century, they did not anticipate the Spirit of Murder passing on to another host, creating a new Rose Tattoo. Also, with the Doctor removed from the equation, the Authority is without one of its most powerful members, and thus is a weaker team that can be defeated.
Rose kisses Bendix, and is surprised when her kiss doesn't kill him. Bendix explains that he embraces her kiss, and thus death, which makes him impervious.
As Bendix and Rose leave the young Doctor’s cell, Jenny Quantum appears in the cell and awakens the young Doctor from his year-long deep sleep. Habib Ben Hassan introduces himself to Jenny. Jenny introduces herself and tells Habib she’s going to help him escape. She tells him she expects that they'll become the best of friends.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
The Engineer
Habib Ben Hassan
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #10
July 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 10
Story Title: Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Bendix is awakened by his assistant Sansom. He informs Bendix that two prisoners have escaped – Habib Ben Hassan, the new Doctor and the essence of Jeroen Thorndike, the previous Doctor.
Bendix gets dressed in his gear and orders an immediate meeting. Jenny Quantum has surprised him again by staging these escapes onboard his Carrier. If the Authority is to be defeated, he must act quickly before Quantum and the young Doctor grow further into their abilities.
Meanwhile, in the Garden of Ancestral Memory, Jeroen is reunited with his predecessors, who welcome him to the afterlife. Jeroen is upset, but the first Doctor helps him accept his passing and get his bearings. He has work to do. Jeroen and the first Doctor explain to Habib what his role as the Doctor means. Jenny Quantum is beside him.
As the Authority await the return of Jenny and the Doctor, Bendix, Rose and a crew of henchman suddenly appear on the Authority’s Carrier.
Apollo attacks, flying straight at Bendix. But Bendix has the Carrier open a shift-door to intercept Apollo's attack. Apollo is sent to the planet of a distant star that has no heat, where Bendix’s henchmen await him. Bendix expects Apollo to win, but not before draining his solar-charged batteries in battle.
Bendix then has the Carrier teleport Rose Tattoo to New York City, along with the Engineer and Swift. This leaves Bendix to deal with Hawksmoor and Midnighter directly.
In New York, Rose is atop the Empire State Building killing tourists. The Engineer creates duplicates of herself to catch the falling victims, then notices them decaying in her arms. She warns Swift not to let Rose touch her, but it’s already too late, as Swift has descended upon Rose and has her in hand.
Jenny and the Doctor appear on the Carrier, but Bendix quickly has the Carrier teleport the pair to the depths of the multiverse. Bendix then has the Carrier teleport him and Hawksmoor to the Sahara Desert and then a tropical island. Disconnected from his source of power, all cities, Hawksmoor is a mere punching bag for Bendix to toy with.
Meanwhile, Apollo defeats his adversary by flying through his head and taking his micro-circuit. The circuit serves as a homing device, which allows the henchman to reappear by Bendix’s side. Apollo uses it instead, and reappears on the Carrier’s deck. Jenny and the Doctor also arrive back.
Just then, Midnighter punches Jenny through the hull glass into orbit. Bendix, who created Midnighter and Apollo, is now in full control of Midnighter and has ordered him to kill his teammates.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Habib)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #11
August 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 11
Story Title: Permanent Midnight
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Midnighter begins the battle by giving a throat shot to the Doctor, who begins choking. As Apollo fires at Midnighter with his heat vision, Midnighter positions the Doctor in the way, burning him severely.
Apollo removes the heat from the Doctor’s wounds and tells him to heal himself.
Bendix reveals that Midnighter never traveled to the future to speak with the elder Apollo. His Evolutionary servants have the ability to alter their DNA to shape shift. The Evolutionary that mimicked the elder Apollo reveals himself in his Apollo guise.
Bendix explains that when Midnighter attempted to teleport to Philadelphia during the riot, Bendix intercepted Midnighter's shift-door and played out the future scenario in his own Carrier’s virtual reality room. Bendix, in fact, incited the breakup of the Authority by deceiving Midnighter into leaving the team – which was the true catalyst for the Authority’s disbanding, not the appearance of the Sons of Liberty.
When the fake elder Apollo kissed Midnighter, he transmitted microscopic nanites into Midnighter’s brain, which gave Bendix control of Midnighter’s motor functions. When Midnighter interfaced with the Carrier in an attempt to get help in his mission to disband the Authority, the nanites were transferred. This gave Bendix control of the Authority’s Carrier, including live video of all onboard activity, as well as control over the Carrier’s shift-doors.
As Midnighter and Apollo begin to fight, Jenny reappears and separates them with a small concussive explosion.
Rather than engage Jenny in battle, Bendix and his crew teleport to Bendix’s Carrier to watch Midnighter and Apollo kill each other from a safe distance. Midnighter leaps over Apollo and manages to hit him in the head, bursting his ear drums.
Jenny distracts Midnighter for a split second, which allows Apollo to punch him through the air. Midnighter opens a door in the direction of his flight and teleports out of sight. Back on his feet, Hawksmoor is convinced Midnighter has not left their Carrier, and that he is planning his next attack.
The Carrier doesn’t immediately respond to the Engineer’s request to locate Midnighter, so Apollo flies off to find him on his own. Jenny goes over to the help revive the Doctor, and convinces him to heal himself and Swift, who is near death from her encounter with Rose Tattoo.
The Engineer announces that the Carrier has located Midnighter. He has just teleported from Dr. Krigstein’s old lab. Jenny informs Apollo to come back, but he disobeys her and continues on in search of Midnighter. Apollo runs into Midnighter, who is dressed in battle armor from Krigstein's lab.
Midnighter blasts Apollo with a sub-zero temperature spray that temporarily prevents him form absorbing solar energy. Midnighter then precedes the beat Apollo to a pulp.
When the team arrives to save Apollo, Midnighter quickly responds by throwing a vial of nano-AIDS at the Engineer. The nanites attack her liquid metal bloodstream, shutting her down.
While the Doctor brings Swift back from the edge of death, Jenny teleports to the Engineer’s side and removes the virus. Midnighter defeats Hawksmoor. The Engineer then rages toward Midnighter with all guns a'blazing. But the Engineer gets too close, where she's less effective, and Midnighter knocks her out.
However, a microscopic miniature of the Engineer slips into the Midnighter’s nasal cavity, as planned. The Engineer makes her way to Midnighter’s brain to remove Bendix’s mind controlling implants.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Habib)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #12
September 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 12
Story Title: Sound And Fury, Signifying
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Jenny engages Midnighter in battle, as the Engineer continues probing his brain for Bendix's mind control inputs. Bendix watches the battle on the Authority's Carrier from his Carrier.
When Jenny doesn’t go full out to destroy him, Midnighter grows a little suspicious. Jenny senses this and responds by upping her attack. At that moment, the Engineer finds some Bendix microprobes and destroys them, which causes Midnighter to halt his attack.
Bendix guesses that the Engineer is inside Midnighter’s head and activates nano-parasites to defend his implants. But the Engineer one-ups Bendix – she infects the Midnighter’s brain with a virus that wipes out anything installed after the 20th century.
Bendix is informed that he is losing control of the Midnighter, so he teleports the Midnighter to a room on the Carrier that Midnighter has never seen before.
Successful in her ploy, the Engineer exits the Midnighter’s nose. He is back to normal, but not before Bendix had Midnighter activate the Carrier’s suicide protocol. The Engineer attempts to shift the Carrier to a different reality to prevent it from exploding in Earth’s orbit, but Bendix still has control of the Carrier and doesn’t allow it to respond.
Jenny, as protector of the 21st century, decides to make the ultimate sacrifice. She creates a sphere that ingests the supernova explosion caused by the Carrier to save Earth.
But her life-sacrifice is just a ruse. Jenny has more than enough power to contain the Carrier's explosion, which gives Apollo enough solar energy to recharge. The Doctor leaves a duplicate of Jenny in space, which leads Bendix and his crew to believe Jenny is dead.
But Bendix wants to be sure, and for the first time uncloaks his Carrier in an attempt to recover the body. When Bendix’s Carrier is unable to latch onto the body with a shift-door, Bendix suspects a trap and orders his crew to their battle stations.
But it’s too late. The Authority teleport onboard Bendix’s Carrier and attack. Jenny explodes small quantum bursts inside Bendix’s brain. Rose Tattoo jumps Jenny and kisses her in the hopes of killing her. But Jenny shrugs off the kiss, and the Doctor brings Rose's serpent tattoos to life to constrain her.
The Authority kills all of Bendix’s crew. Apollo personally kills Sansom, as he was the Evolutionary who played with Midnighter’s emotions by imitating Apollo in the virtual future.
The Midnighter confronts Bendix, who grovels for mercy at the hands of his finest creation. Bendix pleads that he has done what the Authority failed to do – make the world a finer place. Midnighter doesn’t care for Bendix’s approach of mindless consumerism and proceeds to rip Bendix’s spine out of his body. Jenny approaches him to make sure he's okay.
Meanwhile, the Engineer begins her taming of the new Carrier. It turns out the ship didn’t like Bendix at all.
The Doctor has a change of heart and doesn’t kill Rose Tattoo; instead, he changes the Spirit of Murder into the Spirit of Life. Rose's disposition changes, and she apologizes for her actions; she asks to join the team. Midnighter leaves it up to Jenny to decide if Rose should join, as he goes to shower off Bendix's blood.
A week later, Jenny Quantum visits Jenny Sparks in the Infinite City to tell her of the team’s success in defeating Henry Bendix. Sparks is impressed and asks Quantum why she didn’t revert back to being an 8-year-old. Quantum replies it’s much cooler to be a teen.
Jenny Sparks then thanks Jenny Quantum for allowing the Doctors from the Ancestral Garden of Memory to join the Jennies in the Infinite City for a little Bacchanalian fun.
Jenny Quantum spends a little time with the Engineer, who has yet to have a drink at the party. The Engineer is a little sad that, after all the team and world has been through, they basically are back to the same status quo, before everything began. Nothing truly has changed for the better.
Jenny shrugs off the Engineer's comments and convinces her to have a drink. There’s a party to be had.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Habib)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Jenny Sparks (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=34744)
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Sansom
Swift
October 2004
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 1
Story Title: Come The Revolution
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
First Appearance: Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty
The Authority has usurped the United States government and controls the country. They are the leaders of the free world.
Members of the team uphold their obligations of meeting with political leaders across the globe, but they aren’t exactly enjoying the verbal sparring with politicians as much as the physical confrontations that placed the Authority in power.
During a meeting with the Senator, Majority Whip, and a Southern clergyman, Midnighter fantasizes killing all three men. The politicians chastise Midnighter, telling him the Authority’s actions in taking over the country are unconstitutional. They also oppose his legalization of hemp, which Midnighter says is a step in revitalizing the shrinking American middle-class economy.
When the clergyman opposes the Doctor’s Church of the Shaman religion, calling it a separation of church and state, Midnighter punches him to the floor. Midnighter then opens a shift-door to the White House Oval Office to speak with Jack Hawksmoor, the United States President.
Midnighter begins to question the Authority’s reign of power. He feels the public only accepts the Authority out of fear, not because they necessarily agree with the Authority’s politics.
Meanwhile, a riot brews in the streets of Philadelphia. A man dressed as Paul Revere speaks to a large crowd of Authority protesters, and incites them into a revolt. The rioters plan to take back the country by any means necessary.
The Doctor’s Church of the Shaman is the first target, as many of church’s shamanist followers are slaughtered. When riot police attempt to stop the attacks, they are killed by Paul Revere and his superhuman companions.
When the Pennsylvania senator sends in the National Guard, they are mysteriously swayed into joining the revolution against the Authority instead of stopping the riot.
When Hawksmoor gets word of the riot, he instructs the team to meet him in Philadelphia. They will attempt to quell the riot and deal with the superhuman element that has surfaced.
Swift is the first to arrive and is attacked by two members of the superhuman group. An explosion by one of the members sends Swift reeling out of the air. Hawksmoor uses his power to convince two buildings to catch Swift before she falls to her death. The fall is still nearly fatal, and Swift is left bloody and unconscious from the attack.
The Carrier, which now serves as a home for Apollo and Midnighter to raise Jenny Quantum, opens shift-doors to transport most of the Authority to Philadelphia. But when Midnighter walks through his shift-door, he is greeted by an elder version of his lover, Apollo, who introduces Midnighter to a future world the Authority apparently has created.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Johnny Rocketman
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Paul Revere
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #2
November 2004
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 2
Story Title: Ghosts of Authority Yet To Come
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
The Authority arrives on the scene in Philadelphia, but the riots have already stopped. Hundreds have been murdered, and the city is in ruin. No sign of Paul Revere and his followers can be found.
The Engineer surmises the group, estimated at 500 large, must have teleported. But she can’t find any clues to reveal their new location. Apollo flies over the major cities on the east coast of the United States, but finds no signs of the rioting group, either.
In space, the Doctor performs surgery on Swift aboard the Carrier. He repairs Swift’s damaged brain and fractured skull, and stabilizes her.
Meanwhile, the elder Apollo introduces Midnighter to the future 45 years after the Authority remade the world in its image. Apollo tells Midnighter that in the process of creating a utopia, the Authority forgot to factor in free will. Citizens didn’t choose the course of their government – the Authority forced it upon them.
The world did revolt, but the Authority was too strong to overcome. The Authority’s power, Apollo says, became a monster that needed to be fed. Eventually, the world gave way to the Authority and bowed to the team’s new world order.
In this future, Midnighter and Hawksmoor argued constantly. Midnighter wanted to give the government back to the people, but Hawksmoor, as President, refused. After Hawksmoor disbanded the United Nations, he and Midnighter eventually came to blows and Midnighter killed him. But not before Hawksmoor damaged Midnighter’s implants, which altered his personality, the elder Apollo reveals.
Midnighter took over as President and had the Engineer institutionalized. The liquid machinery was removed from her body to prevent revenge for Hawksmoor’s murder, as she and Jack were lovers.
Swift quit the team to live on a mountaintop in Tibet, and later died. The Doctor and Jenny Quantum simply disappeared through a door into the multiverse, and never returned. Apollo says he continued to love Midnighter, and was in denial of his brain damage. Eventually, Apollo was later dismissed by Midnighter, along with the rest of the team, as his looks began to fade. Midnighter himself becomes a tyrannical dictator of the world, establishing a fascist utopia.
The elder Apollo then reveals why Midnighter was brought to the future. The first real revolt against the Authority was led by a super-powered group of patriots. The revolt in present-day Philadelphia is the first sign of the future Apollo warns against.
The elder Apollo gives Midnighter a simple mission: break up the Authority to prevent the future Apollo has shown him.
Suddenly, drones sent by the future Midnighter begin to destroy the Carrier. The future Midnighter knows his past self is aboard the Carrier, and he understands Apollo’s plans to undo his coming into power. Before the Carrier is sufficiently damaged, the elder Apollo opens a shift-door to take Midnighter back to present-day Philadelphia. The elder Apollo passionately kisses Midnighter and wishes him luck, before sending him off.
Midnighter walks through the shift-door and appears in Philadelphia a few feet away from Hawksmoor. With the rioters nowhere to be found, the team regroups on the Carrier to assess what they’re up against. The Carrier provides intel on the superhuman group that led the revolt in Philadelphia.
The group is revealed to be Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty, a group of post-humans with a patriotic theme and the powers to match. Paul Revere’s power of super charisma is revealed to have influenced the riot. Revere’s team consists of Maiden America, Fallout, Johnny Rocketman, and Dyno-Mite, whose explosion nearly killed Swift in Philadelphia.
The Engineer’s research reveals that every member of the Sons of Liberty was elderly and in a nursing home just six weeks beforehand. That is, until a mysterious figure appeared to each of the group and teleported them away, de-aged them and augmented their power levels. The mysterious figure was not captured on camera due to a cloaking device.
The Authority ends the meeting and Hawksmoor schedules a news conference to call out the Sons of Liberty. He wants a confrontation.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Johnny Rocketman
Paul Revere
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #3
December 2004
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 3
Story Title: The Turning Tide
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
The Sons of Liberty are aboard a ship with their mysterious leader and benefactor. The ship’s virtual reality mechanism broadcasts menacing images of the Authority across the skies in every city, inciting hatred against the team.
While Hawksmoor enters his press conference to publicly censure the Sons of Liberty’s actions, Midnighter steps his plan into action.
Realizing he cannot perform his mission alone, Midnighter enters the Carrier’s control room and convinces the Carrier to let him interface with its consciousness. He downloads the memories of the future shown him by the elder Apollo. A confused Jenny Quantum witnesses Midnighter’s interfacing with the Carrier.
Meanwhile, the Sons of Liberty have staged another revolt in Seattle. More shamanists are slaughtered in their churches. When the Authority arrives in Seattle, the rioters are long gone, again without a trace.
Several more revolts break out over the next few days. Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis are hit with similar damaging and deadly results.
The Authority is befuddled. They can’t find the Sons of Liberty and their followers anywhere. But the Doctor taps into the earth and anticipates their next attack. Dallas is the only place in American that isn’t sterile and without feeling.
Apollo is the first to arrive in Dallas to confront the rioters. Paul Revere catches Apollo off guard and knocks him for a loop with Maiden America’s mallet. When the rest of the Authority arrive, the Sons of Liberty have vanished. Apollo reveals the throng of rioters disappeared through a shift-door, exactly like the one their Carrier creates to transport the Authority, only their shift-door was blue instead of yellow.
The Engineer concludes the Sons of Liberty must have their own version of the Carrier.
Midnighter begins to rip into the team, scolding it for its self-righteousness. Midnighter chides the Doctor for taking on a messiah complex with his new religion faster than Hawksmoor appropriated his own brand of politics.
Hawksmoor calls the Midnighter a homophobic remark and the two fight. Their fight makes the news, and rumors of a rift amongst the team begin to spread.
The Engineer breaks up the fight, and Midnighter walks away from the team.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Johnny Rocketman
Paul Revere
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #4
January 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 4
Story Title: The Revolution Will Be…
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor and Darlene Royer of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Swift awakens from her injuries and approaches the Engineer in the Carrier’s bay. The Engineer has been searching for the Carrier owned by the Sons of Liberty with no results, and is exhausted. Swift has been unconscious for five days, so the Engineer catches her up on events.
The Doctor visits the Garden of Ancestral Memory, where the souls of all the previous Doctors reside. Jeroen seeks consolation for his attempt to create a new world religion, as well as information on how Paul Revere’s team is blocking his communication with the earth.
Meanwhile, the revolt against the Authority has grown to a critical mass. Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty are fully empowered and have brought the rioters to the White House lawns.
The Carrier transports the Authority to the White House, and the team confronts the Sons of Liberty and their followers. The Doctor teleports the rioters to a dimension full of manure, which leaves the Authority free to deal with Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty directly.
The Authority are winning the battle, when Dyno-Mite explodes in front of the Doctor, severely injuring him. With the Doctor injured and out, his spell reverses and the mass of rioters reappear on the White House lawns. The Engineer manages to capture Johnny Rocketman and transport him back to the Carrier; she wants to study how he was de-aged and augmented.
While the Engineer runs tests on her captive, Jenny Quantum is visited by a future incarnation of herself, which is reflected in the glass window of the Carrier. This teen-aged version of Jenny confronts her five-year-old counterpart to let her know that she has the power to stop the riots.
Suddenly, Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty revert to their true elderly ages. Apollo pushes back the rioters with a ring of fire, while the Authority tends to the crippled Sons of Liberty.
Dyno-Mite and Fallout still have their powers, however. And when Dyno-Mite explodes in front of Fallout, his nuclear-powered teammate, a massive explosion ignites the nation’s capital, devastating the surrounding area.
Five-year-old Jenny Quantum appears just in time to save the Authority by protecting them from the explosion for force field bubbles. But, inexperienced in the use of her powers, she is unable to save the rioters in the area, all of whom are killed.
Midnighter hugs and consoles a tearful Jenny, as the team stands in awe of the destruction around them.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
Dyno-Mite
The Engineer
Fallout
The First Doctor
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Maiden America
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Johnny Rocketman
Paul Revere
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #5
February 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 5
Story Title: Like A House Of Cards
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Randy Mayor and Darlene Royer of Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Fallout’s explosion has killed more than 15,000 people in Washington D.C.
The media continue to report the devastation for weeks, as the Authority grow reclusive on the Carrier and hold long meetings. The team has refused to face the media, despite the nation's demand for answers about the destruction of its capital.
During one meeting, members of the team begin to blame each other for the devastation, and in-fighting ensues. Midnighter chimes in, asking the team to consider what it has become. He reminds everyone that Jenny Sparks created the team to protect the world, but to remain neutral in its politics and progression. Instead, the Authority has become its own politic and has ruled the world as dictators, if not war criminals.
Hawksmoor blames Midnighter for the devastation in Washington D.C. Jack insists Midnighter, with his ability to see every possibility in a fight, should have foreseen the events that led to the explosion, and been able to prevent them.
Recovered from his injuries, the Doctor has taken to heart Midnighter’s observation that he has become too much of a messiah. He turns his remaining shamanist churches into butterflies, ending his religion across the world.
Midnighter tells the team he thinks the time has come and gone for the Authority. The team has outlived its purpose and should disband. He takes the first step by leaving the team. He packs his bags and orders the Carrier to create a door to take him anywhere away from the team.
A tearful Jenny Quantum intercepts Midnighter before he leaves. Jenny attempts to make her father stay, but he refuses. He tells her he must go, that it's the only way.
Finally, Hawksmoor addresses the public. He says the Authority take full responsibility for the damage in Washington D.C., and has decided to step down from power. An interim government has been assigned and free elections will take place within a month.
Meanwhile, U.S. government forces meet to discuss the Authority’s dissolution, as well as their own return to power. As the men speak, a man draped in a dark cloak enters the room via a blue shift-door.
The man lowers his hood and speaks.
"Allow me to introduce myself, gentlemen. My name is Henry Bendix, and I'll be making the big decisions around here from this point on."
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #6
March 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 6
Story Title: Whatever Happened To The Authority?
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Death: The Doctor (Jeroen Thornedike)
Three years have passed since the destruction of Washington D.C.
News shows recount the history of the Authority: from their days as Earth’s protectors to the team's celebrity phase to their phase of government dictatorship. But the question that lingers in the minds of Americans is simple: What ever happened to the Authority?
The nation’s capital has been rebuilt with a memorial for those who died, and the Washington Monument has been reconstructed. Everything has been rebuilt or is in the final stages of construction, but the Authority is nowhere to be found.
The Authority has disbanded.
Midnighter drowns his sorrows at a bar in Moscow. He then heads out to an alley to bust up a transaction between Russian hoodlums and aliens, who are attempting to acquire a device that obliterates all organic matter within a 10-mile radius.
Midnighter kills the Russian thugs. The aliens declare inter-dimensional immunity – which doesn’t stop Midnighter from killing them, too, and leaving a bloody mess in the snow.
The Engineer and Jack Hawksmoor live alone on the Carrier. The Engineer enjoys life’s bliss by taking the Carrier on a joyride throughout the dimensions. Hawksmoor, still the King of Cities, takes out trivial foes in Tokyo for exercise.
Apollo and Jenny live in San Francisco, and have made an agreement to provide Jenny’s services to the government upon her maturity.
At a monastery in Tibet, Swift recommits herself to pacifism and meditation. She has not given an interview in two years, and protects her privacy at all costs.
One night, Apollo visits Swift, and the pair flies around the peaceful Tibetan skies. Apollo invites Swift to the Doctor’s memorial service to meet with Jenny, but she refuses to be seen in public.
Rumored to have reverted back to his addictive ways after the dissolution of his churches, the Doctor, whose full name was Jeroen Thorndike, reportedly died of a drug overdose. However, a new Doctor has yet to appear on the scene, which is unusual, as a new Doctor typically replaces one that dies.
At the Doctor’s grave, Jenny and Apollo lay flowers. The press hound them for information on the other former members of the Authority. They ask about Midnighter, in particular.
Jenny suddenly disappears. Apparently, her proximity to Jeroen's grave has given her access to the Doctor’s Garden of Ancestral Memory. Jenny meets the First Doctor and asks to speak to Jeroen. But Jeroen is not in the Garden, which could mean that he's not dead.
Jenny frantically returns to the Doctor’s gravesite to stand at Apollo’s side.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Engineer
The First Doctor
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #7
April 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 7
Story Title: Whatever Happened To The Authority?
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
After a trip to the doctor’s office for a physical, 8-year-old Jenny Quantum arrives home in an indifferent mood. She doesn’t like being talked down to like a child, though she is one.
While having a minor fit about her situation in her bedroom, Jenny’s 14-year-old teenage incarnation appears on her closet door mirror. The teen Jenny invites her younger counterpart into the mirror for a little chat. This is their second meeting.
Meanwhile, Apollo telecommunicates with Jack Hawksmoor and the Engineer. He tells the couple that Jenny is getting harder and harder to manage, as she teleports away so often. He has no idea where she goes.
Apollo also tells his former teammates that Jenny did not encounter Jeroen in the Garden of Ancestral Memory, when the pair visited his grave. The trio decides that Jeroen’s death is suspicious. Jack decides to investigate, and asks Apollo to have Jenny bring the Doctor’s predecessors to the corporeal world to be interviewed.
The two Jennies arrive at a fantastical land the teen Jenny calls the Infinite City. It is the location of Jenny Quantum's predecessors. After a quick stroll around the streets and run-ins with earlier Jennies, teenage Jenny Quantum introduces adolescent Jenny Quantum to Jenny Sparks, whom the young girl immediately recognizes.
Young Jenny Quantum has been brought to Infinite City so that Jenny Sparks may answer her questions on how to reach the next step in her evolution. Sparks also reveals that Jenny Quantum is more powerful than all previous Jennies combined, because she may be the last of their lineage.
Sparks, who was the Spirit of the 20th Century, informs young Jenny Quantum that the odds are stacked against her. As the Spirit of the 21st Century, young Jenny lives in a time when mankind has the knowledge and means to destroy the world.
Young Jenny Quantum tells Jenny Sparks that she discovered a man spying on her, and used different parts of her eyes to see him. She creates a hologram of the man, whom Jenny Sparks immediately recognizes as Henry Bendix, her former boss and head of Stormwatch. Bendix presumably was dead. Sparks presumes Bendix is behind all of the disorder and chaos surrounding the Authority.
Now that young Jenny knows who she is dealing with, the young pair of Jennies leave Infinite City and travel back to the mirror through which they entered in young Jenny’s bedroom.
Teen Jenny reveals a few things more to her young counterpart: the Infinite City’s similarity to the Doctor’s Garden of Ancestral Memory isn’t a coincidence. Young Jenny’s visit to the Garden inspired her to create a place that allowed her to receive guidance from her own predecessors; the concept didn’t exist until she created it.
Also, the 21st century is known for kids that want to grow up too fast, and that her teen counterpart is simply a mechanism of her needing to be older and more experienced to handle her upcoming obstacles.
When young Jenny passes back through the mirror to her bedroom, she finds that she is transformed to her teenage incarnation.
Apollo enters Jenny’s bedroom to find his 8-year-old daughter is now 14-years-old.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Engineer
The First Doctor
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Jenny Sparks (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=34744)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #8
May 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 8
Story Title: The Shape Of Things
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome and Randy Mayor
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Shocked by Jenny's new appearance, Apollo immediately tells his daughter to revert back to her younger age. Jenny pulls a pack of cigarettes out of her back pocket, lights one, and explains to her father that she needed to grow up to handle the upcoming situations the Authority are about to encounter. Her aging is part of the plan.
Using the smoke from her cigarette, Jenny reveals the identity of the perpetrator causing the Authority’s problems. She forms the smoke cloud into the shape of Henry Bendix’s face. Apollo immediately recognizes Bendix and curses.
Bendix has a surveillance team outside their home listening in on the conversation. The two men relay to Bendix that he’s been found out. Jenny detects the transmission to Bendix, and Apollo flies outside and incinerates the van and the men inside.
Bendix initiates a swarm tactic on Apollo and Jenny’s home. But when his men arrive, they don’t find anyone inside. In fact, the carbon readings for the home suggest no one has lived there for 200 years. Bendix assures the men that their equipment is fine. Jenny Quantum is simply starting to live up to her name earlier than he expected. Either way, he says he’s fully prepared for every contingency.
Jenny and Apollo have escaped to the Bleed, and are onboard the Carrier. Jenny reveals that the Washington D.C. mishap is all due to Bendix’s machinations. Convinced of Jenny’s story, Hawksmoor and the Engineer agree to gather the old team to take on Bendix.
Jenny visits Swift in Tibet to brief her on the news. Swift is hesitant to leave behind her pacifist life, but decides to rejoin the team. In Hong Kong, Apollo visits Midnighter in the middle of his disrupting an arms deal run by investment bankers. Midnighter kills the arms dealer, but before he can kill the investment bankers, Apollo incinerates them.
Midnighter immediately is on the offensive. He tells Apollo they’re relationship is finished. Apollo tells Midnighter his arrival has nothing to do with them; it's about Bendix. But Midnighter doesn’t believe it. He saw Jenny Sparks electrocute Bendix years ago.
Bendix or no Bendix, Midnighter sticks to his guns. He will not rejoin the Authority, as he knows what the future has in store should the team reform. Jenny appears and convinces Midnighter to visit the Carrier, when she tells him that Bendix has been spying on her.
Aboard the Carrier, the Authority sits down for a round-table discussion. Jenny asks to be debriefed about Henry Bendix. When the members of the team begin quibbling about their gathering, Jenny steps atop the table and declares that she will run things going forward. It’s time to find Bendix and remind him who he’s messing with.
The Authority is back.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #9
June 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 9
Story Title: Life's Illusions
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
First Appearance: Habib Ben Hassan
Origin: Habib Ben Hassan
Aboard his own Carrier ship in the Bleed, Henry Bendix is a worried man.
Bendix is able to view live streaming video of events onboard the Authority's Carrier, and witnesses Jenny’s declaration to find and destroy him. The intervention of Jenny Quantum presents a problem for Bendix. Her involvement reduces his well-laid schemes to estimates with no guarantee of success.
Bendix’s female assistant asks why Bendix didn’t just join the Authority, as they seemed to be on the right path. Bendix disagrees. The Authority attempted to achieve peace through government. Bendix believes the way to peace is through corporation. Attach money to an issue and it gains importance. He says the Authority never understood that, which is why they failed.
Bendix and his female assistant, Rose Tattoo, stroll about the ship and stop at a cell door. Rose peers in and sees a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, who lies still, suspended in stasis. Bendix explains that he is the next Doctor to replace the Jeroen Thorndike, whom Rose earlier killed.
Rose seduced Jeroen inside a Berlin nightclub. The pair had sex, and Rose's death touch slowly killed the Doctor. Near death, Jeroen was delivered to Bendix, who captured his essence in a stasis tube, and used that essence as a compass to find the next Doctor.
Bendix arrived in Palestine a day after the young, new Doctor received his powers. Ironically, the new Doctor received his powers moments before he intended to perform a suicide bombing.
Within 24 hours of his anointment, the young Doctor negotiated peace in the Middle East. When Bendix approached the young Doctor to work for him, the young man refused and Bendix incapacitated him, taking advantage of the young Doctor's inexperience with his new abilities.
Bendix reveals his ace. While the Authority may have anticipated a new incarnation of Jenny Sparks for the next century, they did not anticipate the Spirit of Murder passing on to another host, creating a new Rose Tattoo. Also, with the Doctor removed from the equation, the Authority is without one of its most powerful members, and thus is a weaker team that can be defeated.
Rose kisses Bendix, and is surprised when her kiss doesn't kill him. Bendix explains that he embraces her kiss, and thus death, which makes him impervious.
As Bendix and Rose leave the young Doctor’s cell, Jenny Quantum appears in the cell and awakens the young Doctor from his year-long deep sleep. Habib Ben Hassan introduces himself to Jenny. Jenny introduces herself and tells Habib she’s going to help him escape. She tells him she expects that they'll become the best of friends.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
The Engineer
Habib Ben Hassan
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #10
July 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 10
Story Title: Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wendy Broome
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Bendix is awakened by his assistant Sansom. He informs Bendix that two prisoners have escaped – Habib Ben Hassan, the new Doctor and the essence of Jeroen Thorndike, the previous Doctor.
Bendix gets dressed in his gear and orders an immediate meeting. Jenny Quantum has surprised him again by staging these escapes onboard his Carrier. If the Authority is to be defeated, he must act quickly before Quantum and the young Doctor grow further into their abilities.
Meanwhile, in the Garden of Ancestral Memory, Jeroen is reunited with his predecessors, who welcome him to the afterlife. Jeroen is upset, but the first Doctor helps him accept his passing and get his bearings. He has work to do. Jeroen and the first Doctor explain to Habib what his role as the Doctor means. Jenny Quantum is beside him.
As the Authority await the return of Jenny and the Doctor, Bendix, Rose and a crew of henchman suddenly appear on the Authority’s Carrier.
Apollo attacks, flying straight at Bendix. But Bendix has the Carrier open a shift-door to intercept Apollo's attack. Apollo is sent to the planet of a distant star that has no heat, where Bendix’s henchmen await him. Bendix expects Apollo to win, but not before draining his solar-charged batteries in battle.
Bendix then has the Carrier teleport Rose Tattoo to New York City, along with the Engineer and Swift. This leaves Bendix to deal with Hawksmoor and Midnighter directly.
In New York, Rose is atop the Empire State Building killing tourists. The Engineer creates duplicates of herself to catch the falling victims, then notices them decaying in her arms. She warns Swift not to let Rose touch her, but it’s already too late, as Swift has descended upon Rose and has her in hand.
Jenny and the Doctor appear on the Carrier, but Bendix quickly has the Carrier teleport the pair to the depths of the multiverse. Bendix then has the Carrier teleport him and Hawksmoor to the Sahara Desert and then a tropical island. Disconnected from his source of power, all cities, Hawksmoor is a mere punching bag for Bendix to toy with.
Meanwhile, Apollo defeats his adversary by flying through his head and taking his micro-circuit. The circuit serves as a homing device, which allows the henchman to reappear by Bendix’s side. Apollo uses it instead, and reappears on the Carrier’s deck. Jenny and the Doctor also arrive back.
Just then, Midnighter punches Jenny through the hull glass into orbit. Bendix, who created Midnighter and Apollo, is now in full control of Midnighter and has ordered him to kill his teammates.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Habib)
The Doctor (Jeroen)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #11
August 2005
Wildstorm
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Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 11
Story Title: Permanent Midnight
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Cover Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Midnighter begins the battle by giving a throat shot to the Doctor, who begins choking. As Apollo fires at Midnighter with his heat vision, Midnighter positions the Doctor in the way, burning him severely.
Apollo removes the heat from the Doctor’s wounds and tells him to heal himself.
Bendix reveals that Midnighter never traveled to the future to speak with the elder Apollo. His Evolutionary servants have the ability to alter their DNA to shape shift. The Evolutionary that mimicked the elder Apollo reveals himself in his Apollo guise.
Bendix explains that when Midnighter attempted to teleport to Philadelphia during the riot, Bendix intercepted Midnighter's shift-door and played out the future scenario in his own Carrier’s virtual reality room. Bendix, in fact, incited the breakup of the Authority by deceiving Midnighter into leaving the team – which was the true catalyst for the Authority’s disbanding, not the appearance of the Sons of Liberty.
When the fake elder Apollo kissed Midnighter, he transmitted microscopic nanites into Midnighter’s brain, which gave Bendix control of Midnighter’s motor functions. When Midnighter interfaced with the Carrier in an attempt to get help in his mission to disband the Authority, the nanites were transferred. This gave Bendix control of the Authority’s Carrier, including live video of all onboard activity, as well as control over the Carrier’s shift-doors.
As Midnighter and Apollo begin to fight, Jenny reappears and separates them with a small concussive explosion.
Rather than engage Jenny in battle, Bendix and his crew teleport to Bendix’s Carrier to watch Midnighter and Apollo kill each other from a safe distance. Midnighter leaps over Apollo and manages to hit him in the head, bursting his ear drums.
Jenny distracts Midnighter for a split second, which allows Apollo to punch him through the air. Midnighter opens a door in the direction of his flight and teleports out of sight. Back on his feet, Hawksmoor is convinced Midnighter has not left their Carrier, and that he is planning his next attack.
The Carrier doesn’t immediately respond to the Engineer’s request to locate Midnighter, so Apollo flies off to find him on his own. Jenny goes over to the help revive the Doctor, and convinces him to heal himself and Swift, who is near death from her encounter with Rose Tattoo.
The Engineer announces that the Carrier has located Midnighter. He has just teleported from Dr. Krigstein’s old lab. Jenny informs Apollo to come back, but he disobeys her and continues on in search of Midnighter. Apollo runs into Midnighter, who is dressed in battle armor from Krigstein's lab.
Midnighter blasts Apollo with a sub-zero temperature spray that temporarily prevents him form absorbing solar energy. Midnighter then precedes the beat Apollo to a pulp.
When the team arrives to save Apollo, Midnighter quickly responds by throwing a vial of nano-AIDS at the Engineer. The nanites attack her liquid metal bloodstream, shutting her down.
While the Doctor brings Swift back from the edge of death, Jenny teleports to the Engineer’s side and removes the virus. Midnighter defeats Hawksmoor. The Engineer then rages toward Midnighter with all guns a'blazing. But the Engineer gets too close, where she's less effective, and Midnighter knocks her out.
However, a microscopic miniature of the Engineer slips into the Midnighter’s nasal cavity, as planned. The Engineer makes her way to Midnighter’s brain to remove Bendix’s mind controlling implants.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Habib)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Sansom
Swift
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The Authority: Revolution #12
September 2005
Wildstorm
<img src=" http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/covers/dc/wildstorm/authorityrevolution12thumb.gif" hspace=3 align=top align=left alt="The Authority: Revolution #12" border="0"> ( http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/covers/dc/wildstorm/authorityrevolution12full.jpg)
Story Arc: The Eternal Return part 12
Story Title: Sound And Fury, Signifying
Writer: Ed Brubaker (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=30435)
Penciler: Dustin Nguyen
Inker: Richard Friend
Colorist: Wildstorm FX
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Dustin Nguyen
Assistant Editor: Kristy Quinn
Editor: Ben Abernathy
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Lee (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=15967)
Jenny engages Midnighter in battle, as the Engineer continues probing his brain for Bendix's mind control inputs. Bendix watches the battle on the Authority's Carrier from his Carrier.
When Jenny doesn’t go full out to destroy him, Midnighter grows a little suspicious. Jenny senses this and responds by upping her attack. At that moment, the Engineer finds some Bendix microprobes and destroys them, which causes Midnighter to halt his attack.
Bendix guesses that the Engineer is inside Midnighter’s head and activates nano-parasites to defend his implants. But the Engineer one-ups Bendix – she infects the Midnighter’s brain with a virus that wipes out anything installed after the 20th century.
Bendix is informed that he is losing control of the Midnighter, so he teleports the Midnighter to a room on the Carrier that Midnighter has never seen before.
Successful in her ploy, the Engineer exits the Midnighter’s nose. He is back to normal, but not before Bendix had Midnighter activate the Carrier’s suicide protocol. The Engineer attempts to shift the Carrier to a different reality to prevent it from exploding in Earth’s orbit, but Bendix still has control of the Carrier and doesn’t allow it to respond.
Jenny, as protector of the 21st century, decides to make the ultimate sacrifice. She creates a sphere that ingests the supernova explosion caused by the Carrier to save Earth.
But her life-sacrifice is just a ruse. Jenny has more than enough power to contain the Carrier's explosion, which gives Apollo enough solar energy to recharge. The Doctor leaves a duplicate of Jenny in space, which leads Bendix and his crew to believe Jenny is dead.
But Bendix wants to be sure, and for the first time uncloaks his Carrier in an attempt to recover the body. When Bendix’s Carrier is unable to latch onto the body with a shift-door, Bendix suspects a trap and orders his crew to their battle stations.
But it’s too late. The Authority teleport onboard Bendix’s Carrier and attack. Jenny explodes small quantum bursts inside Bendix’s brain. Rose Tattoo jumps Jenny and kisses her in the hopes of killing her. But Jenny shrugs off the kiss, and the Doctor brings Rose's serpent tattoos to life to constrain her.
The Authority kills all of Bendix’s crew. Apollo personally kills Sansom, as he was the Evolutionary who played with Midnighter’s emotions by imitating Apollo in the virtual future.
The Midnighter confronts Bendix, who grovels for mercy at the hands of his finest creation. Bendix pleads that he has done what the Authority failed to do – make the world a finer place. Midnighter doesn’t care for Bendix’s approach of mindless consumerism and proceeds to rip Bendix’s spine out of his body. Jenny approaches him to make sure he's okay.
Meanwhile, the Engineer begins her taming of the new Carrier. It turns out the ship didn’t like Bendix at all.
The Doctor has a change of heart and doesn’t kill Rose Tattoo; instead, he changes the Spirit of Murder into the Spirit of Life. Rose's disposition changes, and she apologizes for her actions; she asks to join the team. Midnighter leaves it up to Jenny to decide if Rose should join, as he goes to shower off Bendix's blood.
A week later, Jenny Quantum visits Jenny Sparks in the Infinite City to tell her of the team’s success in defeating Henry Bendix. Sparks is impressed and asks Quantum why she didn’t revert back to being an 8-year-old. Quantum replies it’s much cooler to be a teen.
Jenny Sparks then thanks Jenny Quantum for allowing the Doctors from the Ancestral Garden of Memory to join the Jennies in the Infinite City for a little Bacchanalian fun.
Jenny Quantum spends a little time with the Engineer, who has yet to have a drink at the party. The Engineer is a little sad that, after all the team and world has been through, they basically are back to the same status quo, before everything began. Nothing truly has changed for the better.
Jenny shrugs off the Engineer's comments and convinces her to have a drink. There’s a party to be had.
Characters:
Apollo (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37232)
The Doctor (Habib)
The Engineer
Henry Bendix (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=38032)
Jack Hawksmoor
Jenny Quantum
Jenny Sparks (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=34744)
Midnighter (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=39646)
Rose Tattoo I (Spirit of Murder) (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37570)
Sansom
Swift