![]() ![]() There are a lot of big ideas brought up in this series that would seemingly serve as jumping off points for the next era in comics writing that would soon follow. The drawings are bright, crisp, and has a classic outlook ( Paul Ryan is a prolific colorist that frequently collaborated with Mark Gruenwald). While the writing isn’t perfect, it is a cut above most traditional super-hero comics that I’ve read from that mid-1980s period. Guest-starring Captain America and featuring the end of a world at the hands of the Scarlet Centurion! Collecting SQUADRON SUPREME (1985) #1-12, CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #314 and SQUADRON SUPREME: DEATH OF A UNIVERSE. Squadron Supreme is the seminal masterpiece (Opus) from prolific writer Mark Gruenwald It promulgates mature subject matter layered with nuance and subtlety. ![]() He also created the character of Mockingbird specifically to pair her. Squadron Supreme is Justice League the Marvel Way. ![]() He repeatedly wrote stories that were his attempt to show DC how much potential their characters had and how much better their comics could be. ![]() Spectrum! The Whizzer! Nighthawk! What happens when the greatest heroes of an alternate world institute the Utopia Project, vowing to abolish war and crime, to eliminate poverty and hunger, and to cure death itself! Can they possibly succeed? And when do heroes stop being heroes? Mark Gruenwald explores the ethics of heroism in his best-known story. Mark Gruenwald was a total DC fanboy who got hired by Marvel and stayed. ![]()
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