Stormwatch: Team Achilles is an American super-hero series, the third incarnation/revision of the Image comics Stormwatch.
This version was penned by Micah Ian Wright and drawn variously by Whilce Portacio, C. P. Smith, Mark Texeira, Tomm Coker, Carlos D'Anda, and Clement Sauve. The longest run for a penciler on the book was by C. P. Smith, who drew issues 11-19. The title featured covers by Portacio, Jason Pearson and Michael Golden.
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Stormwatch: Team Achilles is an American super-hero series, the third incarnation/revision of the Image comics Stormwatch.
This version was penned by Micah Ian Wright and drawn variously by Whilce Portacio, C. P. Smith, Mark Texeira, Tomm Coker, Carlos D'Anda, and Clement Sauve. The longest run for a penciler on the book was by C. P. Smith, who drew issues 11-19. The title featured covers by Portacio, Jason Pearson and Michael Golden.
Stormwatch: Team Achilles differed from the previous super-hero-centric Stormwatch groups in that it centered on a team consisting mostly of 'normal' human beings from various global Special Forces/Counter-Terrorist organizations acting as a small UN troubleshooting team. The stated mission of Team Achilles was to kill or capture criminal superhumans.
The title was a super hero action series layered with satire of both politics and comic books. Real-world politics often entered the book with a storyline where the team replaced a Strom Thurmond/Jesse...
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