{"id":242,"date":"2016-12-15T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:05:24","slug":"first-impression-the-wild-storm-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/first-impression-the-wild-storm-1\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impression: THE WILD STORM #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DEC160229-WILD-STORM-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"dec160229-wild-storm-1\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DEC160229-WILD-STORM-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DEC160229-WILD-STORM-1-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiralcomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DEC160229-WILD-STORM-1-674x1024.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, yeah, this is noteworthy. And will be good&#8230;guaranteed. Warren Ellis is curating a reboot of the WildStorm Universe. Covert power structures and secret space programs? Ah, yeah&#8230;guaranteed good. This could be\u00a0as momentous as Marvel&#8217;s Ultimate Universe, which has had some incredible staying power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A troubled woman, barred by her employer from continuing her research, walks miserably through New York City. It takes her a moment to notice that everybody else is looking up. A man has been thrown from the upper floor of the Halo skyscraper.\u00a0 And that woman&#8211;Angela Spica, sick from the transhuman implants she&#8217;s buried in her own body&#8211;is the only person who can save him.\u00a0 What she doesn&#8217;t know is that the act of saving that one man will tip over a vast and secret house of cards that encloses the entire world, if not the inner solar system. 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