The Concept and Characters: Stormwatch first appeared in 1993, part of the second round of Image debuts, after the founders of the company started to explore the fictional worlds they created with the help of their studios of young artists. When Stormwatch launched, it was a Jim Lee-conceived story of a superhero strike force, overseen by the United Nations, and it was the kind of series that was all about bombastic action and “cool” characters identified by caption tags affixed above their dramatic poses. In short, it was a stereotypical Image comic of that era, and its enthusiastic charm quickly wore off as the reader realized there was no substance beneath the garish style of the young artists from Wildstorm Studios.
[But unlike most of its Image peers, Stormwatch gained a second life]
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