The hit series comes to its mind-blowing conclusion with "SUPERIORITY." We have traveled through the Undiscovered Country, and learned many of the secrets about what has become of the former United States of America in the decades since it sealed its borders. Now, as the Outer Empires begin their invasion, only one question remains...who, or what, is Aurora?Collects Undiscovered Country #31-36.
Charles Soule is a #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist, comics author, screenwriter, musician, and lapsed attorney. He has written some of the most prominent stories of the last decade for Marvel, DC and Lucasfilm in addition to his own work, such as his comics Curse Words, Letter 44 and Undiscovered Country, and his original novels Light of the Jedi, The Endless Vessel, The Oracle Year and Anyone. He lives in New York.
After all this time, I wasn't sure how Undiscovered Country's finale would land. American itself has changed a lot since the book began, and it's honestly been so long that I thought I'd have trouble remembering who was who and what was what.
But the conclusion hits perfectly. It clearly has a lot to say about what America is, what it could be, and the big, big gap between those two things - I'm sure an actual American would have more feelings about this than I do, but as a concept, I think it works well.
I'm also usually a hater when it comes to an impromptu time travel-related ending, but UC even manages to do that well too. It's not the most satisfying ending for some of the characters, but the message comes across loud and clear.
Nice to finally have a conclusion to this series, with all the delays between arcs. It is fairly satisfying. The group has finally traveled to the center of the spiral and are ready to meet Aurora, an AI on a base on the Moon which has been waiting for one of the Graves children to decide which version (remember all the different zones they traveled through?) of America will stand triumphant. The art is good and the story comes to a fairly fitting conclusion. Is it perfect? No. But it's certainly entertaining and thought-provoking and with all the ways the real America has changed since this series began, it might spark some conversations, too.
Stunning. Hard. Landing. Where could this story go? How do you tell the story heartfelt and mission true? Where does the reader have left to wander but the future, ever the hopeful future? Thank you for this ending. Thank you for this story of America.