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Review title: Shallower than Hollywood
Product review: This wildly popular book suffers from thin plots and thinner characters. Ellis won praise for his frank portrayal of a gay superhero couple in this series, and rightly so. Ten points for social sensitivity, and about minus a million points for shallow, one-dimensional characters (yes, even Apollo and the Midnighter), literally mindless violence, repetetive plots, and aggressively insensitive portrayal of practically everything else. Particularly offensive was the grinning Fu Manchu villain and his yellow horde.It is interesting that Ellis was happy to turn this book over to another writer. Perhaps he chose to concentrate on Planetary, a companion series to the Authority that was it's polar opposite. Planetary had great character development and clever plots that both satired and honored the many genres that inform current superhero comics.
