![]() The rest of the volume is a somber examination of just how the heroes of the world would react to something like this - as you might imagine, they would do pretty much ANYthing they could, including bringing in former enemies to help. 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. However, things were thrown for a loop when the entire world was threatened! The heroes of the Squadron Supreme (who had fought each other practically to the death a week earlier) now had to face the fact that the earth had only twelve hours left before it was destroyed! Mark Gruenwald explores the ethics of heroism in his best-known story. The opening of this graphic novel deals with the tragic ending of the previous Squadron Supreme maxiseries, which ended with the Squadron Supreme disbanding once they realized that their plan to fix their world through benevolent tyranny was still, well, you know, tyranny. I continue a month of "Nothing is Better" by spotlighting the way that Mark Gruenwald, Paul Ryan and Al Williamson handled the dread of the death of the universe in their gthrraphic novel sequel to their Gruenwald's classic Squadron Supreme series (that Paul Ryan finished after Bob Hall started the series). ![]()
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