Stormwatch #28

Name: Stormwatch #28
Brand: Image
Availability: InStock

Sep 1995 · Image · 2.50 USD; 3.55 CAD

📊 ~8,207 copies sold its debut month

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★ 1st appearance — Swift

About this Issue

Stormwatch #28 is the debut issue for Swift (Shen Li-Min), a Tibetan winged superheroine who went on to become one of the founding members of Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch's The Authority — one of the most influential superhero comics of the late 1990s. The same issue introduces Flint (Victoria Ngengi), a Kenyan powerhouse described by her creator as the most physically powerful Black woman in comics at the time, as well as Blademaster, Comanche, and the non-powered paramilitary unit StormForce. Though published as a fill-in arc, this issue seeded characters whose later prominence under Ellis redefined the scope and ambition of the entire Wildstorm Universe.

writer Jeff Mariotte · artist Ron Lim · inker Robert Jones · colorist Tom Kelly · colorist Kell-O-Graphics · letterer Richard Starkings · letterer Comicraft · cover Ron Lim, Robert Jones

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History

The regular Stormwatch creative team fell behind schedule in mid-1995, following the conclusion of the 'Despot' storyline in issues #23–27, and editor Drew Bittner brought in writer Jeff Mariotte to script two consecutive fill-in issues (#28 and #29). Mariotte, working with penciler Ron Lim and inker Robert Jones, was tasked with introducing an entirely new squad of recruits and a companion paramilitary unit — StormForce — so the fill-in stories could stand apart from the main continuity threads being worked on simultaneously by the regular team. Jim Lee supplied the character designs for the new heroes based on written descriptions from Mariotte. The inspiration for Swift's name and winged visual concept came from a sketch by Mariotte's young daughter Holly, who drew a winged female figure and named her 'Swift.'

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First appearance of Swift (Shen Li-Min), a Tibetan winged superheroine created by Jeff Mariotte and Ron Lim, who later became a core member of The Authority.
First appearance of Flint (Victoria Ngengi), a Kenyan woman with immense superhuman strength, also created by Mariotte and Lim; she survived into The Authority era of Wildstorm.
First appearance of Blademaster and Comanche, two additional new Stormwatch recruits introduced in this issue.
First appearance of StormForce, a non-powered UN paramilitary support unit conceived as an adjunct to the superpowered Stormwatch teams.
Written by Jeff Mariotte as a scheduled fill-in while the regular creative team caught up on later issues; art by Ron Lim (pencils) and Robert Jones (inks).
Character designs for the new heroes were by Jim Lee, working from written descriptions supplied by Mariotte.
The cover of #28 forms the right half of a single combined image when placed alongside the cover of the immediately following issue, Stormwatch #29, also drawn by Ron Lim.
Swift — introduced here as a rookie with only partially activated powers — was later retained by Warren Ellis when he took over the title with #37, becoming one of only two new recruits from this era kept on into his landmark run, and subsequently a founding member of The Authority.