1) The Wild Storm, Vol. 1 ★★★★
2) The Wild Storm, Vol. 2 ★★★★
3) The Wild Storm, Vol. 3 ★★★★★

I don't say this very often (or ever, really) but I think this might be a perfect series. Each issue and volume on their own might not be perfect, but when looked at as a whole it comes pretty damn close. This entire volume is just about catharsis. We're finally getting the climactic battle between Skywatch and IO with our heroes caught up in the chaos, and it's just as amazing as you would think.

Something that made this volume especially cathartic for me is that we finally have our new, fully formed Authority! They're all pretty different from our old team, both in terms of how they look and their personalities, but there are still shades of those old characters in these versions. I also love that Warren Ellis pulled a Young Avengers and made all but one member of his team queer. Everyone else is too much of a coward to have four of their characters straight-up have an orgy and the other two be a dorky married couple, and that's why we stan a legend.

I know that I've waxed poetic about the art in every review for this series, but guys, the way that the sky is drawn in this is fucking magnificent. Read it just for that because I want to wallpaper my room with the pages of this series.

This series has been everything I've ever wanted and so much more. I'm so glad that DC let Warren Ellis go back to his old sandbox, and I'm also glad that he let himself play around with the characters and update them for the 2010s. Practically no one has read this series and that's a real shame because I think it's become my favourite comic book series.