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Warning : This article moderate SPOILERS forAvengers # 18
When the Avengers just are n’t enough to protect Earth , it ’s time to call inMarvel ’s own reading of theJustice League . But the newSquadron Supremecouldn’t look more like an exact copy of DC ’s greatest Hero of Alexandria if they examine . The only difference ? This new team is made up of trained killers that makeBatman v Supermanlook like a day at the park .
Since the team made a surprisal show as a squad handpicked and assembled byAgent Phil Coulson himselfinAvengers # 700 , they have kept their mien in the Marvel Universe quiet . Now that their secrets are out , they are too : leaping into action as " D.C. ’s peachy heroes ! " Defenders of America ’s capital , hence the name . But the comparisons to Superman , Batman , Wonder Woman , and the rest of the League go far deeply than a simple jokester . The unexampled Squadron Supreme of America is a dark , bally , and sinister creation of Agent Coulson ’s . And their estimate of handle an intrusion … is turn the invaders into a pile of blood and castanets . We ca n’t imagine DC is going to like this one .
Meet Marvel’s Own Justice League
The squad makes their aforementioned , howling debut in the page ofAvengers # 18 , available at risible book shop now . For newbie , the Squadron Supreme ( now ' of America ' ) is going to be hard to understand . Especially today , whenDC ’s ownCaptain Marvelmovie ignores the MCU version , instead of getting to poke playfulness at the competition . alternatively of jabbing , the Squadron Supreme is a spate closer to bludgeon lector directly in their faces , once the team brook tall as the most obvious Justice League knockoff most lecturer will have ever seen .
Originally reated by Roy Thomas and John Buscema , the Squadron Supreme was dream up as a playful recreation of the Justice League , used to combat Marvel as obvious " bad guys " for niggling more than a laugh among the reader . The Kryptonian Superman was re - conceive of as Hyperion , Batman became ( an African America ) Nighthawk , Wonder Woman was now Power Princess bear of ' Utopia Isle , ' a rest home of warrior women . , The Flash and Green Lantern got similar spoofs , but nothing like the late rendition .
Now thatthe massiveWar of the Realmseventhas come to Marvel ’s Earth , the Squadron Supreme has been pushed into action . And with their call to service in the public center , they get a heroic introduction from Phil Coulson personally :
Nighthawk . Power Princess . Hyperion . Doctor Spectrum . The Blur . For month now ( or has it been years ? ) they ’ve been training in secret in the land ’s capital … perfect their wondrous top executive , working to become the great land ’s with child super grinder . The Squadron Supreme of America . And they owe it all to one man . Agent Phil Coulson .
The Squadron Supreme is Here To Save D.C.
However , as we mention above , the consequence also let out theoriginsof the Squadron Supreme . And those have perfectly nothing in common with the DC counterparts . Instead of hailing from an foreign world , a warrior island , or a Gotham City stall - in … these heroes have been created in a lab , with Phil Coulson overseeing every whole step of their growing and programming . And if the costume they ’ve been cave in seem to be heading a different counseling than the Justice League ( except for Wonder Wom – good-for-naught , Power Princess ) their approach to combat is drive for a altogether unlike audience .
Forget knockout poke , heat vision , tornadoes , gadgets , or energy constructs . The Squadron Supreme of America relies on brute strength and savage violence toslaughterthe Frost Giants in the country ’s capital . They may be the"heroes of D.C.“but the on-key edition of the Justice League would n’t disturb these murderer with a ten pes pole . We ’re guessing reader will want to see the fury for themselves , but be warned : gruesomeSPOILERSincoming …
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Marvel’s Killer Superman, ‘Hyperion’
The issuing opens by focus on Hyperion , living a civilian life-time that might have been Clark Kent ’s in another universe ( which , total to consider of it , the Marvel reality might actually be ) . Instead of work as a newsperson at a major newspaper , Mark Miltonhas involve a job teach kid about American history . Like MCU fans know , Phil Coulson like his submarine patriotic . Which is why Hyperion does n’t loveanythingas much as the United States . Check out the character description offered in the issuing for this new , happy - with - homicide Hyperion :
Mark Milton hump teaching American story . He loves see the spark in a educatee ’s center when they get excited about the land he holds so dear . But teaching is not why Mark was put on this Earth . blowup in the distance . Now the intact city is screaming . This is why he was born , however many years ago that was . For this moment . He ’s seven , perhaps eight seconds aside from the source of the shrieking . He ’ll be there in two .
Marvel’s Killer Wonder Woman, ‘Power Princess’
The conclusion to have Hyperion tear open his dress shirt to reveal his Hyperion logo in classic Superman fashion is a clever and satisfying court . But Power Princess adulterate those limit beyond repair . Wearing Wonder Woman ’s armour , using her arm , and confirming her precise backstory … well , it ’s not Marvel ’s mostsubtlecomedy . But when lector get insight into how she and Hyperion are created together , au naturel , and plan to crave after one another … thing take a turning towards , to be fair , as creepy a tone as this story actuallyshouldhave . Although we doubt manyAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.fans will appreciate ANY version of Phil Coulson take a brutal Wonder Woman should be like"Thor , but with boobs . "
Readers are introduced to Princess Zarda during her boxing training , as her coach notes that she lives to be shoot as well as give collision . The reader knows the verity about her spar , and about the mysterious detail that makes it possible :
" It ’s almost like you enjoy getting punched in the face . " Zarda only smiles when he says that . How could she explicate the painfulness makes her palpate live ? That without the special necklace from Utopia Isle that weaken her powers , Zarda would n’t feel anything at all ? And the bones of this charwoman ’s hand would ’ve been shatter into a thousand pieces .
Marvel’s Killer Batman, ‘Nighthawk’
The new version of Nighthawk look more like a knockoff version of Marvel ’s Batman than any introduced before , but Kyle Richmond ’s blood story is slightly dissimilar . Now a political leader as opposed to a billionaire industrialist , Nighthawk own the exact same level of paranoia and suspicion that is often parodied as it pertains to Bruce Wayne . The real Bruce keeps tabs on his mate , sure enough … but Nighthawk take it to another , even colder level . It ’s not really his choice of row , since Coulson is once again programming him with Bat - spirit level of
Since Washington , D.C. is a special federal dominion , its voice has no actual ballot exponent in congress . Kyle Richmond is a delegate without the full force of a congressman . The weakest member of the House , some would say . They would be unseasonable .
Marvel’s Killer Flash, ‘The Blur’
The Blur and Doctor Spectrum only get a page or two in this issue , and the reasons are intelligible . Spectrum ’s origin story is simple ( astronaut finds space vitreous silica , becomes a soldier of the spectrum of light ) but it ’s The Blur ’s power that make for the most predictable , yet decidedly repelling kill of the issue . Having been peril to countless hr of pop civilisation garbage and agony videos intended to fracture his mind , The Blur is let loose upon a Frost Giant , using his stop number not only to disorient the encroacher , but apparently dispatch his head from his organic structure . The reader is dispense with the grisly flock , but can take ease in the fact that this homicidal version of The Flash still got a selfie with the cut off psyche .
Since his fateful jog through a strange mist that altered his body chemical science , Stanley Stewart has worked as a ring armour bearer , window automatic washer , hotdog go-cart , barista , and computer computer programmer . Sometimes all in the same twenty-four hour period .
It ’s ill-defined just how large a character the new , bloodthirsty , emotionless , and research lab - originate Squadron Supreme of America is pass to have in the time to come of the Marvel Universe . The same goes for Agent Coulson , the devious Einstein behind the new team of hero patriotic only to America . We would say it ’s worth the joke , perhaps poking playfulness at DC ’s darkerfilmheroes , but this debut proves the Squadron is no longer a laughable imitation of the Justice League . With an United States Army of non - human invaders for them to impale , draw , detonate , and glow alive … well , let ’s just hope these ' heroes ' get called out as the baddie they are sooner , rather than later .
avenger # 18is usable now from your local comic book memory board , or unmediated fromMarvel Comics .
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