(No Spoilers)

Last week’s Wildcats and this week’s The Authority bring us 12 issues into the World’s End storyline.  A lot of story threads are being tied up with, of course, several new ones being laid out.  As indicated by the cover of the issue, The Authority finally fight the infected Apollo.  The confrontation begins very dramatically and harkens back to the “wildescreen comics” Ellis wrote when he was on The Authority.  I would have thought the fight with Apollo would be more brutal considering how strong he is, but when you realize the motive behind everything (especially concerning the Warhol Virus) then the fight makes more sense.  Speaking of the Warhol Virus, when we first got a peak at it in issue 1, I had no idea it was going to become so central in the World’s End storyline.  The revelation shows us why, for a while there, Incubites (the creatures people turn into when infected by the Warhol Virus) seemed like they were running around in every World’s End title.  It is definitely something that’ll come to bear quicker for people who read the World’s End trades versus following it a single issue at a time for an entire year.

Several things DnA set up in previous issues play out here, including the resolution to The Authority/Apollo fight.  If there’s any complaint it’s that as readers, we already knew where this was going.  But DnA’s run still has 3 issues left and it looks like they’re going out with a bang as The Authority takes on Kaizen Gamorra next month!

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