Squadron Supreme

In 2016, Marvel revived its super-team concept with a short, potent three-issue series written by James Robinson and featuring the combined artistic talents of Alex Ross, Denys Cowan, and Leonard Kirk. This iteration of the Squadron Supreme, a group of powerful heroes from another world, finds themselves stranded on Earth and forced to navigate a new reality where their methods clash with the established heroes of the Marvel Universe. The story matters as a focused, high-stakes exploration of what happens when a team of near-omnipotent beings, with their own rigid code of justice, is dropped into a world that doesn't trust them. It's a visually striking and thematically rich miniseries that distills the classic moral dilemmas of the super-hero genre into a tight, compelling narrative.