Squadron Supreme: New World Order

by Len Kaminski, Anthony Williams (Illustrator), Andy Lanning (Illustrator)

When civilization tottered on the brink of collapse, they stood united against the Forces of Darkness... Men and women of vast power who solemnly vowed to create a paradise on Earth!

But they failed!

And now, returning to their homeworld after months of exile in a parallel dimension, they will learn the cost of their folly!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Superheroes, Fiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is all prologue. It's about the Squadron Supreme finally returning to their Earth only to find it's become a police state. Without the Squadron around to keep the Utopian Program honest, Nighthawk's fears were realized. Anyway this feels like the first act of a larger story that I don't think ever happened.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

New World Order. It's so nice to have the Squadron back on their proper Earth, and do see their supporting cast and enemies again. But this graphic novel is sadly uninspiring. I mean, it's the government taken over my evil, yet again. And maybe this time it's humanity doing it to itself, rather than being taken over from the outside, but that doesn't make it much less repetitive. Beyond that, the writing is flat: the villainy of the world is over-the-top, the plot is meandering, and the characters are uninteresting [4/10].

[Rick · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not sure I waited so long to read this, but I wish I hadn't. It has been sitting around waiting for to get to it for years and now that I finally have.. well, disappointing is about all I have to say.

While I never liked Marvel's take on the "Justice League" characters as mush as I liked the Avengers, it was still fun to see them depicted as Marvel might have portrayed them had they actually owned them. Unfortunately that is about all this graphic novel is worth, the novelty of that very idea. It was certainly enjoyable on a purely narrative level, but there was little that seemed inspired about it.

[Dean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average is really the only way to describe this one-shot, and not exactly sure what the point of it was. I like the Squadron, the Marvel JLA, but Kaminski takes the nod nod wink wink of Marvel doing DC's heroes and runs with it straight faced, even introducing versions of Phantom Stranger and Martian Manhunter.
The problem is, the story never goes anywhere beyond re-establishing the Squadron on their Earth, and never gives them enough personality to make you care. The art is ok, but not as good as you would hope.
If you pass on this you won't miss much.