About: Stormwatch: Team Achilles   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/vjsUKKphavhWX2PeAhJyjQ==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

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.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Stormwatch: Team Achilles
rdfs:comment
  • 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.
sort
  • Stormwatch: Team Achilles
dbkwik:crossgen-co...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:heykidscomi...iPageUsesTemplate
Creators
Letterers
  • Rob Leigh
  • Comciraft
Date
  • September 2002 - August 2005
ongoing
  • y
Issues
  • 23(xsd:integer)
Type
  • team
Caption
  • Issue #1
TPB
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
main char team
  • Stormwatch: Team Achilles
colorists
  • Whilce Portacio
Title
  • Stormwatch: Team Achilles
Pencillers
subcat
  • Wildstorm Publications
ID
  • 604(xsd:integer)
  • 11094(xsd:integer)
Superhero
  • y
Editors
Inkers
Schedule
  • Monthly
Writers
Publisher
ISBN
  • 1(xsd:integer)
abstract
  • 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 Helms-like Senator with a shape-shifting African superhuman and another where George Washington, reincarnated as a patriotic hero resembling Captain America, tried to overthrow the American government. The book threw potshots at President George W. Bush, mocked the ineptitude of the United Nations, and made light of modern pathos-driven corporate superheroes with mockeries of a Doctor Doom-like armored dictator character, the Justice League, the X-Men, Superman, and even Wildstorm's own premiere superhero team, The Authority. Some fans called Team Achilles "G.I. Joe for Grownups" and noted comics writer Kurt Busiek wrote "it's like Sgt. Rock, but with Superheroes." Although the enemies in the comic book have been the typical fantastic archetypes seen in comics, the weapons used by the Stormwatch team were mostly real-world weapons systems (such as the Barrett M82A1). Realistic weapons as well as tactics are used by the non-powered Team Achilles members to take down the physically superior enemies seen in the comic.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software