Stormwatch: Team Achilles
DC · 2002–2004 · 23 issues
About the series
In the wake of The Authority's rise, DC’s WildStorm imprint reimagined its premier peacekeeping force with Stormwatch: Team Achilles (2002–2004). Writer Micah Ian Wright, alongside artists C. P. Smith, Whilce Portacio, and Carlos D'Anda, steered this 23-issue run into a grittier, paramilitary direction—replacing superhuman operatives with a covert team of human soldiers and tacticians. This series mattered as a grounded, often cynical counterpoint to the god-like power fantasies of its era, exploring what it means to police a world of metahumans without superpowers of your own.