Aboard a 50-mile-wide alien ship called The Carrier live The Authority: Swift, the Engineer, the Midnighter, Apollo, Jack Hawskmoor and the Doctor – superhumans ready to save the world, and even to change it! From invasion from other realities to the advance of assassination squads trained to eliminate entire countries, they protect billions who have no idea that the world has just gotten a whole lot more dangerous...

The electric, no-nonsense Brit Jenny Sparks; the alien-designed King of Cities Jack Hawksmoor; the shamanic Doctor; the winged woman Shen Li-Min; the lithe cyborg Engineer; the leather-clad Midnighter and the sun-powered force of nature known as Apollo — meet the Authority, standing ready to save the world from menaces on the vastest possible scale.

Headquartered in an extraordinary fifty-mile-wide alien vessel existing outside of space and time, the Authority provides the ultimate defence to an unsuspecting world. From invasion from other realities to the advance of assassination squads trained to eliminate entire countries, they are the final authority: protecting billions who have no idea that the world has just gotten a whole lot more dangerous...

Superheroes · Authority
Volume 1 in the series · Collects #1-8