>>84373387
Because the book was fucking trash before him.

>>84373674
Have you read it? It's nothing amazing but it's not bad.

Ellis didn't kill all the characters off. He kept Battalion and Synergy alive (and they were the only two, outside of Backlash, that people gave a fuck about) and he also kept Swift alive, as Swift was a pre-Ellis character too.

But the deal with Stormwatch is this: the book was going to be canceled with issue #50 but Ellis's run was a surprise hit that they decided to relaunch the comic rather than just keep it going with the original numbering, in hopes that a new #1 would bring in new readers and boost sales.

Ellis meanwhile had stopped giving a flying fuck about the book by that point, hence why the second volume was dog shit and barely featured the cast/instead had Ellis do a stealth Midnighter/Apollo introduction mini and the three part Bleed storyline that takes place in a parallel earth.

Sales this point had tanked but Ellis was by this point leveraging his pull at Wildstorm/DC to write what became Authority so the decision was made to cancel Stormwatch. Killing off the cast in the Aliens/Wildcats one-off supposedly came about because no one at Wildstorm had the balls to tell Ellis to fuck off, as Ellis had friends within DC and DC (at the time grooming Ellis to be the next Alan Moore) was basically telling Wildstorm that whatever Ellis wanted, he should get.

And of course, it all backfires horribly on everyone in that Ellis basically abandoned Authority after 12 issues cause he got bored and thought Planetary instead was going to be his big meal ticket. And then pretty much neglected Planetary like a party girl cock chasing single mother when he realized that the fans he hated and treated like dog shit, shunned Planetary for Authority

Pre-Image Stormwatch was decent from around #10-26, mainly due to Ron Marz being hired to write the book and managing to make work a god-awful gimmick idea Image had at the time when he first took over the book, where they would publish #25 about a year early (between issues #11/12) to tease fans with future storylines.

Marz came up with the idea of Battalion being dragged into the future to watch his super-villain dad on the verge of slaughtering the entire team and then being sent back before he can stop him. Then actually followed up on said future (much to Jim Lee's general anger, as Marz made Lee give him control over Spartan from Wildcats for the arc) with an arc where Battalion (who was dead in the future #25) using his knowledge of his impending death to prevent it and then hiding so his dad couldn't find him plotting in the shadows to stop him.

After this arc however, the book turned to shit until Ellis took over.

>>84373942
>After this arc however, the book turned to shit until Ellis took over.
I'll agree that Proger's run was bad but the characters were still good. There was nothing wrong with the cast or concept. The book did not need the overhaul that Ellis gave it. He just wanted to stir shit up out of pure ego.

>>84373387
It suffered from Ellis syndrome, the fact that Ellis has the attention spawn of a 2 year old and wants to do the "next big thing" as quickly as possible

I can only remember one thing about Storm Watch and that's that they actually got into a fight with the WildCATs because they ambushed and arrested one of "their" Supervillains.

>>84373387
That is the most idiotic question of all.
The story is told, you can either choose to read it, or not. That's where your powers of influence ends.

Unless you work on writing and eventually get to work on the big comics. And then you'll have to endure all the entitled kids complaining about how you can be "allowed" to write your stories.

>>84374690
>And then you'll have to endure all the entitled kids complaining about how you can be "allowed" to write your stories.
These are the entitled kids who buy his books and allow him to get paid to do his dream job. If he pulled what he did on a Marvel title he would have been eviscerated for it, nerds would be screaming for his head. But since it's just Stormwatch, free suckjobs all around.

>>84373387
Who gives a shit, they all came back anyway

Please revive this idea with Steve Orlando DC.

>>84373387
Reminder that Aliens from film-franchise killed most of the characters.

>>84373798
>He kept Battalion and Synergy alive (and they were the only two, outside of Backlash, that people gave a fuck about) and he also kept Swift alive, as Swift was a pre-Ellis character too.

Flint also survived Wildcats/Aliens, she was also created long before Ellis came on board.

Ellis is not very good with existing properties

>>84374753
Buyers decide, not entitled kids, who doesn't buy comics, they steal them on the interbutts.
And the title bloomed and grew during that run.
Had it bombed they'd have hired someone else.

>>84373798
>Ellis didn't kill all the characters off.
I was exaggerating, but the point still stands. "Practically all" isn't much better than "all" when it comes to proper conduct for taking over a book.

>>84374929
>And the title bloomed and grew during that run.
>Had it bombed they'd have hired someone else.
Sales actually just kind of continued to dwindle.

>>84375201
This is kinda true. Looking at Comichron, Ellis' Stormwatch wasn't a sales hit back when it was out.

StormWatch #40 31,266
StormWatch #41 30,232
StormWatch #42 28,345
StormWatch #43 27,033
StormWatch #44 28,139
StormWatch #45 24,966
StormWatch #46 25,726
StormWatch #47 31,203
StormWatch #48 25,251
StormWatch #49 24,820
StormWatch #50 25,171

These numbers are not too bad today, but back in the 90's it was when those numbers would only get you at the low end of the Top 100, or below even that. However it was getting critical acclaim and Wildstorm had a lower cancellation treshhold, I think, so it managed to survive. Plus the sales were still sort of consistent.