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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2937222" data-attributes="member: 18832">If you like alternate takes on classic characters - both DC's Elseworlds titles and books from other companies - I can recommend a few.First, for me, is Supreme Power. There are three trades out now that form the bulk of the main story, and three collections of self-contained stories set before, during, and after that main story.The three trades are "Contact" (#1-#6), "Powers and Principalities (#7-#12), and "High Command (#13-#18). The three standalone tales are "Supreme Power: Hyperion", "Supreme Power: Nighthawk", and "Doctor Spectrum: Full Spectrum". I have read the main trades but not any of the standalone stories.Supreme Power is essentially a DC Elseworlds story about the Justice League of America, but based on Marvel's thinly-veiled homage to the JLA, Squadron Supreme. It takes place in its own universe - neither the regular "616" Marvel universe nor the Ultimate universe - and tells the story of Hyperion, a.k.a. Mark Milton, who crashed to Earth in a rocketship as a baby and was found by a childless couple . . . then taken away by the U.S. government and raised by government agents who pretended to be his parents in an environment completely controlled so as to instill complete loyalty to the U.S. and a willingness to use his powers in the government's interest.The other superpowered people in the story are based on JLA characters through the lens of the Squadron Supreme - Nighthawk (Batman), the Blur (based on the Whizzer, and obviously on the Flash), Zarda (based on Power Princess, and obviously on Wonder Woman), Kingsley Rice (based on Amphibian, and obviously on Aquaman), and Doctor Spectrum (Green Lantern).Supreme Power's first "volume", the first eighteen issues in the three trades named above, was published under Marvel's "adult" MAX imprint. There's nudity and sex and some nasty killing, but in my opinion it's all in the service of the "realistic" look at how the characters would be treated by the world and how they'd react to it. I don't know whether the second "volume", which is called Squadron Supreme and published as a Marvel Knights title, is toned down in this regard.Some of my favourite "true" Elseworlds titles are Superman: Red Son (Kal-El lands in Soviet Russia and becomes the champion of Communism), Batman: Nine Lives (a noir tale told from the perspective of Private Detective Dick Grayson investigating the murder of Selina Kyle and its effect on the lives of nine men in Gotham City), and of course Kingdom Come.I also really like at least the first three trades' worth of The Ultimates, but again you need a high tolerance for "nasty" interpretations of classic characters to really get into it.</blockquote>

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