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Stormwatch is a comic book created by Jim Lee and published by Wildstorm. It followed the activities of Stormwatch, a UN sponsored superhero team setup by Henry Bendix.
The comic is best known for having been written towards the end of its run by Warren Ellis, who used it as a lead-in to The Authority. The Authority was made up of members that had survived the massacre of the Stormwatch team by the creatures from Alien. The story itself actually took place in a WildC.A.T.s crossover book, despite its huge impact on Stormwatch. Ellis also used Stormwatch to introduce the concept of The Bleed, a space between parallel universes which features heavily in Planetary.
Ellis's work on Stormwatch is collected in the trade paperbacks: 'Force of Nature', 'Lightning Strikes', 'Change or Die', 'A Finer World' & 'Final Orbit'.
The Stormwatch series was later revived, penned by Micah Ian Wright in Stormwatch: Team Achilles, which followed a mostly non-superpowered UN troubleshooting team dealing with superhero related problems. The series became a satire of politics and comic books, with segments where the team replaced a Strom Thurmond/Jesse Helms-like Senator with a shape-shifter and a storyline where a patriotic hero resembling Captain America tried to overthrow the American government. The series ended after controversies related to the writer, before the storyline in progress was completed.
