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Okay, stop us if you've heard this one before: On a quiet night, a Midwestern couple drives past a cornfield. Suddenly, from up in the sky, an alien ship falls to Earth and crashes. Inside is a lone child. The couple takes it home to raise him as their own. And then shortly afterward a team of government agents show up to take the child, as the U.S government tracked the ship that fell, investigated, and quickly tracked down the couple in question. After some debate, it is decided to study the child and the technology from his ship, and turn both into weapons serving the United States.Guess you haven't heard this one, after all. Siegel and Shuster, take a break, J. Michael Straczynski's calling the shots here.So begins Supreme Power, Marvel's Ultimate Universe version of the Squadron Supreme/Sinister, originally based on the Justice League and following their successful mini-series in the 80s by Mark Gruenwald. In the greater Marvel multiverse, this world is "Earth-31916", in comparison to the original Squadron Supreme comics taking place on "Earth-712".Mark Milton (alias Hyperion, Marvel's main pastiche of Superman) is sent to Earth by an unknown race and is taken into custody by the United States government. Mark is raised in a controlled environment, and every stimulus and lesson is fabricated to teach Mark to be the ultimate patriot. However, the conditioning is surface deep at best.At the same time he is growing up, Kyle Richmond (Nighthawk), Stanley Stewart (The Blur), Joseph Ledger (Doc Spectrum), Princess Zarda and the Amphibian begin to enter the world stage as Superheroes all of which are less than ideal versions of their DC counterparts, ranging from corporate sellouts, to certifiably insane, to racist and even genocidal in their actions.Basically, Watchmen said, "If superheroes were real, they'd be riddled with personality disorders and neuroses."While Supreme Power said, "If superheroes were real, they'd be terrifying."The stories are printed on Marvel's MAX imprint (basically the R-rated segment of Marvel Comics) and do not shy away from gore, destruction, and violence. At the height of its publication, it was considered one of Marvel's better comic book lines.Executive Meddling would later have Straczynski off the book and forced a new creative team to relaunch the series with a new storyline and new characters that look a lot like properties already owned by Marvel. After this incarnation, the franchise appeared ruined. But a brief mini was released in 2011 that appeared to try to take a back-to-basics approach, hearkening to the original run of Supreme Power (returning to the MAX imprint, a return to being Bloodier and Gorier and more realistic story) but with the initial story focusing mainly on Hyperion and Doc Spectrum.During The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman), the entire Supreme Power-Earth was destroyed by the villainous Cabal, but not before brutally slaughtering its entire population, including the Squadron. After Secret Wars, Nighthawk was mysteriously revived and transported into the restored Marvel Universe, forming a new Squadron Supreme with fellow exiled members from dead universes. He also starred in a short-lived solo series, but was later killed during Secret Empire, quickly succeeded as Nighthawk by his associate Tilda Johnson, AKA the former Deadly Nightshade.Compare Garth Ennis' The Boys, another 2000s Author Tract from a renowned comic book writer filled with tons of violence, sex and political commentary on Bush-era policies.Comic titles in the Supreme Power universe: | |
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