In this coda, I’ll briefly address Squadron Supreme appearances post-Squadron Supreme. Since I’ve already touched upon Mark Gruenwald, Paul Ryan, and Al Williamson’s sequel Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe (1989) in previous chapters, I’ll start in earnest with Len Kaminski and Anthony Williams’ Squadron Supreme: New World Order (1998), a one-shot that finds the Squadron returning to Earth-712 after a lengthy period trapped in the Earth-616 universe. By all accounts, it appears this title lays the foundation for future Squadron projects; however, the storyline was left unresolved until a rather desultory conclusion in Tony Bedard and Jim Califore’s Exiles #77–#78 (2006). Meanwhile, the Squadron Supreme underwent a changeover when Marvel’s MAX imprint rebooted the characters with different (and far darker) characters. This new Supremeverse, shepherded by J. Michael Straczynski and set in the Earth-31916 universe, consisted of numerous titles; however, the Supremeverse reinforces the utopia calculus that I addressed in Chap. 1 . Finally, in offering this brief coda, I hope to convince readers (at least for those who still need convincing) that Squadron Supreme’s handling of the utopia problematic is second to none, particularly when compared to post-Squadron Supreme titles, and Gruenwald’s focus on the utopia problematic in this limited series remains unparalleled.

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Coda: The Squadron Supreme: Post-Squadron Supreme

  • Graham J. Murphy

摘要

In this coda, I’ll briefly address Squadron Supreme appearances post-Squadron Supreme. Since I’ve already touched upon Mark Gruenwald, Paul Ryan, and Al Williamson’s sequel Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe (1989) in previous chapters, I’ll start in earnest with Len Kaminski and Anthony Williams’ Squadron Supreme: New World Order (1998), a one-shot that finds the Squadron returning to Earth-712 after a lengthy period trapped in the Earth-616 universe. By all accounts, it appears this title lays the foundation for future Squadron projects; however, the storyline was left unresolved until a rather desultory conclusion in Tony Bedard and Jim Califore’s Exiles #77–#78 (2006). Meanwhile, the Squadron Supreme underwent a changeover when Marvel’s MAX imprint rebooted the characters with different (and far darker) characters. This new Supremeverse, shepherded by J. Michael Straczynski and set in the Earth-31916 universe, consisted of numerous titles; however, the Supremeverse reinforces the utopia calculus that I addressed in Chap. 1 . Finally, in offering this brief coda, I hope to convince readers (at least for those who still need convincing) that Squadron Supreme’s handling of the utopia problematic is second to none, particularly when compared to post-Squadron Supreme titles, and Gruenwald’s focus on the utopia problematic in this limited series remains unparalleled.