Authority

There are a lot of different prominent symbols in Authority which end up giving it this large scale quality.  There are a lot of specific places and counties mention, the comic starts out with Moscow, introduces character in New york and ends in London.  There seems to a worldly nature to  the story. But the ship that the hero use as a sort of base called the Carrier seems to a kind of futurist beak.
There is defiantly a strong connection to a sense of team, as the hero characters are introduced that seems to connection to them to the conflict as it affect the whole earth.  I feel like adapting this story in to a longer form T.V show would be the best idea.  A longer ford adaption would allow it time to spend which each character and the large conflict.  I may spend more time with the set of hero character to really introduced them or keep them very underfinded till the big fight scene they all have to together near the end of the first issue to use that as a good way of showing off their character. Either that or pick a character that is more of the main lead which in this case I would put as Jenny Sparks since I read her as having the most ideal as a main character or leader.


Honestly I don't think our current era of Superhero fandom would exist with out this era. These comic bought superheros into the space they needed to be in order to be taken seriously as a medium.

That being said I personally thinks this is the down fall as well.  These comic tones are  still affecting comics today; dark, serious and gritty. Which has turned out to be just a limiting as the camper stuff.  But I feel  Superhero comics are finding their medium between deep and fun.  Stuff like Ms Marvel and The unbeatable Squirrel Girl can balance the idea of story and fun.  I think the popular of characters like Deadpool proves that people like supers who have fun as well.