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Title: Supreme Power: Contact by J. Michael Straczynski ISBN: 0-7851-1224-3 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Turning the super-hero icons on their heads
Comment: The original Squadron Supreme, invented by Avengers writer Roy Thomas in the 60's, was intended to be a pastiche of the Justice League of America. Each character in Marvel Comics' Squadron Supreme was an analog of DC Comics' Justice League characters. Hyperion is the analog of Superman, Nighthawk of Batman, Power Princess of Wonder Woman, etc. The main point of the exercise was to enable Marvel's greatest team to do battle with DC's without flouting any copyright laws and to have a little fun with the fans.
J. Michael Straczynski's Supreme Power is also a look at the super-hero icons of DC but through a different colored glass. Supreme Power examines how events might really unfold were DC's heroes to have appeared in our world. An alien infant lands on Earth, exhibiting extraordinary powers. Military and political officials fear him, so they seek to control him. A youth sees his parents slain before his eyes and so becomes a vigilante, stalking the streets at night hunting criminals. Another man develops the ability to travel as super speed and so on.
The story starts from the point of view of protagonist, Mark Milton (a.k.a., Hyperion), an alien who crashes on Earth as an infant and whose power the military establishment both fears and hopes to exploit. They fill his head with American propaganda in the hope that they'll brainwash him into the Great American Hero: truth, justice and the American way. But when he matures, he becomes wary of their control and suspicious of their motives. As the story branches out, we're introduced to the other cast members, each of them with their own reasons for becoming a "hero" and many of them not so pure.
In DC's somewhat utopian world, these heroes are revered and honored for the most part. But a more cynical view would be that it wouldn't quite be that simple. We have a tendency to revere and revile our heroes at the same time. While we admire and honor them, we also seek to tear them down and destroy them out of fear, jealousy and other base emotions. The story is as old as time. Just ask Julius Caesar how we treat our honored heroes. Look at the heroes of Ancient Greece and the rather unseemly way so many of them fell from grace.
Supreme Power is an exciting, page-turning look at heroism and just what the world at large really thinks about having someone who could save your life one day or vaporize you with a glance in the next. In the tradition of DC's Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, Supreme Power takes a smart and decidedly adult look at hero and super-hero.
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Title: Rising Stars: Visitations by J. M. Straczynski ISBN: 158240268X Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Ultimates by Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie ISBN: 0785109609 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Cycles (Y: The Last Man, Book 2) by Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan, Brian K. Vaughan ISBN: 1401200761 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: One Small Step (Y: The Last Man, Book 3) by Brian K. Vaughn, Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan ISBN: 1401202012 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Power (Rising Stars, Book 2) by J. Michael Straczynski ISBN: 1582402264 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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