I’m now about midway through Gruenwald & Co.’s Squadron Supreme and my two main recurring thoughts are:
(a) this is the superhero show Netflix wants, whether they know it or not (though now they can just get a Millarworld knockoff and own the full rights, I guess); and
(b) I cannot believe the balls on Brad Meltzer. I didn’t think Identity Crisis was aging well anyway, but that was before I found out how Meltzer took its arguably most interesting story hook from a decades-old analog story and, as far as I can tell, never acknowledged it. Ethically abhorrent human that I am, I would probably forgive him if he’d taken the idea and moved it forward in some way, but Squadron Supreme has been a *far* more satisfying read on every front so far. —Jeff















