The Final ’90s Countdown, Part Twenty-One.

Here it comes, the next entry in the Final ’90s Countdown of YOUR top votes for the best comics of an otherwise maligned decade in the industry. We’re almost done with the one-vote getters, and it’s kind of a two-fer here: Stormwatch #37-44 (Image 1996-7), Stormwatch #1-#11 (1997-1998), WildC.A.T.s/Aliens one-shot (1998) and The Authority #1-12 (Wildstorm 1999-2000) This breaks format just a little, but they are of a piece, as one title flows right into another. The connecting thread here is writer Warren Ellis, currently kinda persona non grata in the business, but at the time was a cutting edge writer of interesting and influential comics. But anyway, as you can see from the list of titles there, it’s bit of a complicated road to follow. Starting with #37 of the original Stormwatch series, Ellis, along with artists Tom Raney and Randy Elliott retool the book into a more “real world” (relatively speaking) setting, with more of a political edge, versus the 1990s “Image Style” book it…