Stormwatch Vol 3 1

"The Dark Side, Part One": Stormwatch attempt to recruit Apollo, but he is having none of it. Meanwhile, Harry Tanner encounters a giant eyeball creature in a cave on the moon that refers to itself as "the first response to the sounding of the Horn." It tells Harry

"The Dark Side, Part One"
Part of the "The New 52" event.
Stormwatch Vol 3 #1
November, 2011
Rated T+ for Teen (15+)
Executive Editor	Eddie Berganza
Cover Artists	Miguel Sepulveda Nathan Eyring
The Dark Side, Part One
Writers	Paul Cornell
Pencilers	Miguel Sepulveda
Inkers	Al Barrionuevo
Colorists	Allen Passalaqua
Letterers	Rob Leigh
Editors	Pat McCallum Sean Mackiewicz
Next Issue	Stormwatch Vol 3 # 2

Do we look like superheroes? They're amateurs. We're the professionals.

— Jack Hawksmoor

Stormwatch (Volume 3) #1 is an issue of the series Stormwatch (Volume 3) with a cover date of November, 2011. It was published on September 7, 2011.

Synopsis for "The Dark Side, Part One"

Stormwatch attempt to recruit Apollo, but he is having none of it. Meanwhile, Harry Tanner encounters a giant eyeball creature in a cave on the moon that refers to itself as "the first response to the sounding of the Horn." It tells Harry that something powerful and malevolent is coming and it is tasked with strengthening the targeted worlds to resist it. It attempts to take over Harry's body and use it as a host. Stormwatch attempts to recruit Apollo once more and Martian Manhunter battles him briefly until Midnighter incapacitates the heroes. Then, Midnighter offers an alliance with Apollo, who accepts.

Appearing in "The Dark Side, Part One"

Featured Characters:

• Apollo (Real name revealed) (First full appearance)
• Stormwatch (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
  • Adam One (First appearance)
  • Eminence of Blades (Harry Tanner) (First appearance)
  • The Engineer (First appearance)
  • Jack Hawksmoor (First appearance)
  • Jenny Quantum (Jennifer Emily Quantum) (First appearance)
  • Martian Manhunter (First appearance)
  • Projectionist (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

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Antagonists:

• Scourge of Worlds (First appearance)
  • Lunar Golems (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Demon Knights (First appearance; unnamed) (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • Etrigan (First appearance; unnamed)
  • Madame Xanadu (First appearance; unnamed)
  • Vandal Savage (First appearance; unnamed)
• Demons (In a vision) (Cameo)
• Midnighter (Real name revealed) (Cameo)
• Pandora (Cameo)
• Shadow Cabinet (Behind the scenes)
• Superman (In picture only) (Cameo)
• Genghis Khan (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Justice League (Mentioned only)
• Napoleon (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Winston Churchill (Deceased) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Hyperspace (First appearance)
• Prime Earth
  • 1013 (See Notes)
    • Britain (Unnamed) (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • 2011
    • Earth
      • Himalayas
      • Russia
        • Moscow
      • England (Mentioned only)
    • The Moon

Items:

• Alien horn (First appearance)
• Dark Matter (First appearance; unnamed)

Vehicles:

• Eye of the Storm (First appearance)

Events:

• World War II (Mentioned only)

Concepts:

• Century Babies (First appearance)
• Magic
• Metahumans
• Teleport Doors (First appearance)
  

Notes

Pandora watches.

• Pandora makes a brief cameo appearance to witness the events of this story, as she does all #1 issues published as part of The New 52. She can be seen in the alley behind Apollo, just before Hawksmoor "[asks] the city to confuse [him]."
• From the solicit: "They are Stormwatch, a dangerous super human police force whose existence is kept secret from the world Directly following the ominous events of SUPERMAN #1, Adam One leads half the Stormwatch team to recover the [INFORMATION REDACTED] from deep in the Himalayas. Meanwhile, Jack Hawksmoor and the rest of the Stormwatch crew look to recruit two of the deadliest super humans on the planet: Midnighter and Apollo! And if they say no? Perhaps the Martian Manhunter can change their minds..."

Trivia

• The Demon Knights' original creation occurs in early 11th Century.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Stormwatch series
• Images from Stormwatch Vol 3 1

Recommended Reading

• Stormwatch Recommended Reading
  • StormWatch (Volume 1)
  • StormWatch (Volume 2)
  • Stormwatch (Volume 3)
  • Stormwatch: Post Human Division
  • Stormwatch: Team Achilles

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