Cirrus@Austlit

Includes the following issues (blurbs taken from publisher's website):

1. To Serve and Protect (June 2004)

The 'supers' fad has passed and superhumans have become celebrities, criminals, or like The Watch work as security consultants. Others have become dangerously political such as Lucifer who has just declared war on China.

2. Gigantomachy (August 2004)

In this second part of the 3-part miniseries entitled CASUS BELLI the battle for Bejing rages, as the future of superhumanity hangs in the balance. Johnny Grond, the obsidian man has been unleashed by Lucifer, and the entire Watch team may not be enough to stop him. UNite, the enforcers of the sinister UN protocol for dealing with superhumans are preparing to make their move. And somewhere, the most dangerous man alive stalks the battlefield, preparing to strike down an old foe, Jack Hawkins, CEO of The Watch Inc. And down underneath it all, deep in the ground, something is waking.

3. All Fall Down (October 2004)

Paladin, the Last Superhero, has entered the Battle of Beijing. But is even he enough to defeat Lucifer, who seems bent on the destruction of the city? Jack Hawkins is confronted mid-battle by the terrorist organization Blackday and the utterly lethal Fisher the betrayer. Meanwhile Luc Coltraine is under the ground discovering the terrifying secrets of the inhuman Abbadon, a being who claims to have created superhumanity. Secrets revealed, battles won and lost and huge changes for the world in this last issue of the CASUS BELLI miniseries.