Squadron Supreme help needed

[adamantiumhip]

OK so the last arc I read was supreme power, with the squadron facing off against the ultimates...I'm a trade PB guy, so can anyone point me in the direction of the next tpb in the series?

I'd love to know what happened after the cross over. Is the series still going on? And is it still good?

[Expletive Deleted]

After Ultimate Power, it was relaunched with Howard Chaykin as the writer and Marco Checchetto as the artist. It lasted twelve issues before it was cancelled. Reaction to the series was generally negative. Chaykin made Ultimate Nick Fury his main character, introduced a bunch of completely unnecessary MU analogues as Fury's supporting cast, and didn't bring Hyperion into the picture until a little too late in the game. He had a couple of interesting ideas, but by and large it just did not work.

If you're interested, though, the TPBs are "Squadron Supreme: Power to the People" and "Squadron Supreme: Bright Shining Lies."

[ShaunN]

The Squadron Supreme Universe, in my view, is an example of something that was horribly wasted.

The "Ultimate Power" series started off well (I'm one of those people who likes Greg Land's art) and then degenerated into something virtually incomprehensible and very poorly explained.

The Chaykin SS was just an incredible waste of time and characters. It was incomprehensible, badly drawn, poorly written and finished in a way that was incredibly unsatisfying and pointless.

When I think of how Supreme Power started with JMS, I'm saddened by the incredible waste of potential.

In another universe, we got the conclusion to the Hyperion-Blur-Nighthawk showdown with Redstone and JMS (or someone equally competent) is doing the series and doing a good job!

[Kasper Cole]

I stopped paying attention to that series a LONG time ago, the drop in quality was actually quite shocking.

[striderhirryu2]

I couldn't even read the first 6 issues of the Chaykin book. It introduced a character made of millions of souls? What the hell happened to gritty realistic?

[adamantiumhip]

How comes JMS stopped writing it? His take on the book was excellent.

I quite liked Supreme Power too, shame it sounds like the book really went down hill :(

[son of jorel]

what happened to te original squadron with the caped hyperion. i didnt mind the revamp ( supreme power) , but it all looks like an incoherent mess now.

i want a team either original or the revamped in the 616 universe.

[ShaunN]

How comes JMS stopped writing it? His take on the book was excellent.

I quite liked Supreme Power too, shame it sounds like the book really went down hill :(

Hi! I asked this question a while ago and the answer I got was something along the lines that JMS decided he just could not write the book anymore - he lost interest or had problems writing all the other characters as well as Hyperion. I am probably mis-remembering or misrepresenting his actual reasons. The impression I had was that he was not forced off the book.

That being said, I still don't understand why JMS and Gary Frank could not have, at least, finished the Redstone story. That looked like it was definitely going somewhere.

Again, it's a real shame. Supreme Power was one of the books I really looked forward to when it was coming out - great art, compelling main character, and a fantastically dark and realistic take on superhumans in the modern world. Then, it all went to pot.

[goblin9]

"Squadron Supreme needs help" is a better title...
Perhaps Marvelman will save the day...