Whether you know and love him from The Authority and elsewhere within the WildStorm Universe, the New 52 volume of Stormwatch or heās brand-new to you, Midnighter is a character that knows your every move, knows if youāve been good or bad and he is most definitely not Santa Claus!
To celebrate writer Steve Orlandoās run with one of the greatest champions of the WildStorm pantheon (and someone whoās often called the āBatman of WildStormā), check out whatever you like (be it the entirety or just a few issues, here and there) of his fun-filled, ass-kicking series that debuted as part of the DC You campaign of 2015:
Youāre welcome to chit-chat about this series as you like. Are you a Midnighter fan? Do you want to see a Batman and Midnighter team-up at some point?
Iām going to bump this up my to read list. I havenāt always been a Midnighter fan. His and apolloās early appearances were very derivative, but I hope thereās a Batman & Superman/Midnighter & Apollo crossover
Actually, there kind of is! Thereās the Batman/Superman: Authority Special #1, which is a sort of sequel to Superman & The Authority and part of Phillip Kennedy Johnsonās run on Action Comics, where Batman enlists Superman and his new Authority team, which includes Midnighter and Apollo, on a black ops mission on one of the worlds of the Multiverse trying to invade theirs. I donāt remember how much interactions they all have, but it was a fun story.
And hereās the Superman & The Authority series:
@Vroom did recently cover that story over at his Modern Superman Fan Club:
Superman and The Authority wasnāt as bad as I thought it was going to be, but too me the authority is quite a bit more than Midnighter and Apollo. Every time regular DC crosses paths with Wildstorm killing is off the table. Even though thatās what Midnighter is good at. Iāll give the Batman book a go just for laughs.
I read Midnighter as it came out, and really liked it.
When the debut DC You titles were announced and I saw Midnighter was among them, it was one of my most-anticipated of the bunch, and it didnāt disappoint.
āMoving on.ā
My favorite scene of the series is in Midnighter #10, when Harley sees Midnighter and says āLeatherman!ā, followed by Midnighter kicking Parasite in the jaw and saying āSmile, a$$hole.ā
Its got Harley, a Superman villain getting trounced by someone other than Superman and Midnighter just casually drops āa$$holeā so well in the process of giving Parasite some amateur dental work that I canāt help but love that scene.
Its understandable they get the spotlight (much as Superman and Batman do in Justice League titles), but The Authority really does have more to offer than their versions of Superman and Batman.
Iād love to see a Black Label series that mixes regular DC with WildStorm.
We kind of got that in Superman vs. Lobo #3 (not a spoiler), but I want a full-fledged book that is a hard āMature Readers Onlyā tale with DC and WildStorm characters.
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