Grant Morrison, the universally acclaimed writer of ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN and FINAL CRISIS, brings his talents to the new bimonthly series THE AUTHORITY, featuring art by Eisner Award-winner Gene Ha (TOP 10)! Morrison and Ha deliver an unparalleled sense of drama and dynamic storytelling to THE AUTHORITY that will leave readers gasping for breath. The first issue starts with a bang and goes up from there, reintroducing the team with intriguing new twists and revelations!

Nate has awakened in a dark cell, a mystery man offering his help is his first sight, but Nate is stunned and confused so he runs, he has escaped from his imprisonment. Then he appears in the remains of a luxury mansion, he sees two men arguing. What´s happening? He can´t recognize anything. It was all a recreation of his own past, the mysterious past of one of the most powerful mutants all over the world. Forge and a group of outcasts have hosted Nate as a family since they found him. Impersonating a theatre troupe they have been destroying Apocalypse´s minor goods like a small anonymous oposition to the dark lord. But Apocalypse has been aware of Nate´s existence thus he sends his most trusted assassins.

A dying social media mogul leaves his billions to be split evenly between 140 random people—or however many of them are still alive at the moment of his death. Rob Williams (MARTIAN MANHUNTER, THE ROYALS: MASTERS OF WAR) and Michael Dowling (Death Sentence) assemble a cast that includes a young black man trying to get by in St. Louis, an Iranian reporter in need of hope, a retired special forces soldier with a strange sense of purpose, and a thrill-seeking heiress, in this thriller that shows we’re all still part of the food chain.

It starts out with Hot Rod riding on a meteor which is heading towards a moon. He thinks about how people always tell him things are impossible and he always believes there’s a way to do anything. He eventually jumps off of the meteor and crashes onto the moon by himself and although he survives, he is badly damaged by the fall. Hot Rod then flashes back to a time on Ki-Aleta when he was first put in charge of a unit. They reach a place called the Omega bunker and devise a plan to distract the omega guardians, sneak into the bunker, and secure the magnificence – a map of everything in the universe. He then flashes back to his present situation where he is trying to break into Styx – the most brutal Decepticon penal colony. He uses a virus to create false alarms around the base, sending guards everywhere at certain times, allowing Hot Rod to get by undetected. As he tries to get to the Z-Lateral cell block, more memories of Ki-Aleta come up...

After the demise of the Clairvoyant, Eddie joins forces with the Alchemist and finds a new ally in Charlotte, who joins the battle to save humanity from the beast!