Armageddon Hits Wildstorm Universe
If you ask a comic fan what annoys them most, you're typically going to get a response involving stupid industry-wide crossovers. If they're done well, like House of M was, we're usually OK with it. If it's stupid, like, say, just about everyone that's ever been done in the DC universe, then we tend to get cranky rather quickly. I know, I know, we're a fickle lot, but them's the breaks.
However, the Wildstorm Universe is currently set to undergo a crossover known as Armageddon, which involves a future version of Void (from WildC.A.T.S.) bringing a number of heroes from her past to the future and then sending them back in an effort to stop a cataclysmic event from taking place and making the world into a Very Bad Place to live.
Writer Christos Gage sat down with Newsarama to discuss some of the details in a lengthy interview, and while he didn't reveal everything, he definitely shed some light on what's going on and what's to come with this crossover:
NRAMA: So let's run down the clues - we've seen a couple of times that there's a feeling that a full-scale war between super powered beings was a prelude to the catastrophe, but was that battle, in fact, the Armageddon of which Void and the future characters speak of?CG: That would be telling. Yes, there was a major, global superhuman conflict of some kind that devastated the world, affecting different regions in different ways - for example, causing the perpetual cloud cover over Eastern Europe that we saw in Wetworks: Armageddon, which allowed the Night Tribes of werewolves, vampires, demons and other supernatural monsters to seize control of the region without fearing the sun. Was this global superhuman war the Armageddon, or a symptom of it? Who was behind it? Can it be stopped? These are the questions being raised. They will be answered in the months to come, with some of the clues in Armageddon and much more revealed in the miniseries that follows, Revelations, written by Scott Beatty from a plot by myself, and drawn by up and coming superstar Wes Craig.
ARMAGEDDON MAN: CHRISTOS GAGE ON WILDSTORM: ARMAGEDDON [Newsarama]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Superheroes on 10 December 2007
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So, any sense if it's worth picking up or not?
What if I told you just about the only Wildstorm book I regularly read is/was Authority with a smattering of Wildcats and Gen13 thrown in on very rare occasions. Make a difference?
I read the Midnighter one. Maybe if I read more Wildstorm outside of Midnighter it would have made sense but otherwise, it was rather pointless.
So it might of gone over my head but I sure hope that was a joke about that crapstain knows as House of M.
You know all those crossovers that had nothing to do with the main story and contradicted each other?