>>154101756
It can't be done anymore.
Call it zeitgeist, creative impulse, will to do so... it's not there anymore, or, at least, not focused in something whose end result is The Authority.

You CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE AUTHORITY WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING STORMWATCH GEN X AND THAT CRAZY 90S STUFF.

>>154101756
The Wild Storm was the closest thing you had to a comeback.

>>154101756
>What exactly is keeping DC back from doing a new Authority book under Black Label?

The Authority lost to NATO. Is that simple.

>>154101756
Every team is the authority now, their dirtbag leftist shtick has become the default attitude in all protagonists of all media

>>154101756
The Authority is a pretty weak comic series driven by HYPE moments, and the moment its writers run out of said moments (or the artist can't pull it off) the readers are left with shallowly characterized protagonists against flat antagonists and, more often than not, the writer's political hot takes. Also let's be real, Swift never does anything useful ever, Apollo might as well be replaced by cardboard standee in 90% of the arcs, the Doctor is Jobber Supreme, and everyone's personality is "deviant sociopathic assholes pretending to be normal in front of other deviant sociopathic assholes to varying degrees of success."

>>154101756
Because no one can take seriously BATMAN AND SUPERMAN BUT THEY'RE FUDGEPACKING BUTT BUDDIES

>>154101756
There's no way to do a version of The Authority in the modern day political environment without pissing literally everyone off.
>Midnighter and Apollo the Batman and Superman expy are a gay couple. So conservatives won't like it
>Originally written by Warren Ellis, blacklisted for sleeping around with too many women. So feminists won't like it.
>Taken over by Mark Millar, who's a right wing chud nowadays. So liberals won't like it.
>Has a overall pro-authoritarian might makes right message that Mark Waid and Joe Kelly hate.
>Has a pitch black edgy sense of humor that would make Garth Ennis blush.

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Put the irishman Hugh Campbell working for the United Nations in a small office in New York.

It's almost funny how multiple writers at DC cearly want to write Wildstorm properties, but have to squeeze them into other series. They recently brought back Stormwatch in a Batman anthology book, and the WildCATS are going to be in some upcoming Superman Elseworlds.

>>154101756
We already have the Justice League.

>>154104275
"Pisses off everyone" could possibly mean it also caters to everyone in a sense, doesn't it.

>>154105579
that's the old timeline.

>>154104131
This.