The storm of accidents, deaths, mistakes, confusion and anger has led to this. Miles Craven has lost his grip and Henry Bendix has lost his mind. Angie SpicaÕs journey is ending. And so is life on Earth.

Skywatch intensifies its preparation for war, increasing its attacks on the planet. For some of these conflict zones, SkywatchÕs greatest threat is not IO or conventional forces, but the people who escaped from its own experimentation camps. And the four people in London whom it knows little about, but who are preparing to take steps to alter the balance of the worldÉ

The experimental subjects code-named Apollo and Midnighter have broken cover. Combat-optimized superhumans are now loose on the Earth.

The reimagining of the WildStorm UniverseÕs legendary antiheroes takes even more unexpected twists when plans older than human life itself begin to unfold! Jack Hawksmoor, Jenny Sparks, the Doctor and more arrive on the scene as the cold war between the covert agency that oversees crises on EarthÑInternational OperationsÑand the one that manages threats from outer spaceÑSkywatchÑheats up. But why is the carefully negotiated peace falling apart in a series of bloody encounters and high-tech infiltrations? The mysterious Jacob Marlowe knows more than heÕs tellingÉbut what he is willing to share is enough to lead the Engineer and her allies into incredible danger. And Henry Bendix, the Weatherman who heads Skywatch, sees an opportunity in the war thatÕs coming, one heÕll do anything to take for himself! The stakes in the world of The Wild Storm have never been higher in The Wild Storm Vol. 2, a breathtaking collection from the creative team of Warren Ellis (The Authority, Transmetropolitan) and artist Jon Davis-Hunt (Clean Room)! Collects The Wild Storm #7-12.

"Michael Cray created by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi."

Derrick Storm, the guy the CIA calls on when it wants something investigated domestically, is thirty-three thousand feet in the air, returningfrom a rock climbing vacation in the Swiss Alps, when the plane spirals into anose-dive. Storm uses his climbing gear to tether himself to the wing andheroically save the plane and all the people on board. Sadly, Storm isnot available to come to the aid of the three other planes that have crashedunder similar circumstances, killing everyone on board. Interestingly, many of the victims arepowerful people in politics, business and religious groups. The always elusive Jedidiah Jones, leader of the National ClandestineService that has no name, calls on Storm to investigate. Storm determines that an unknown extremisthas secured enough of the rare earth element promethium to create a laser withthe power to shoot down planes from the ground. The problem swiftlybecomes a global one as four more planes crash in the Arabia Desert. Details, intuition and courage lead Storm to Monaco, Panama City and Egypt as he meets beautiful women, rides angry camels and rescues innocentvictims in his valiant effort to track down the maniacal mind behind the terrorism.

Beginning the fourth story arc of THE WILD STORM. Jenny Mei Sparks has been around for over a century. SheÕs seen a lot of things. Enough bad stuff that she took 20 years off to get drunk. And now sheÕs back, and she has a plan. The problem is that other people have plans, too, and one of them is about reducing the population of Earth by around 90 percent.