DC Explains Why Superman Isn't the Ultimate Superhero
Warning: Spoilers for One-Star Squadron #6 ahead!
While Superman is often held up as the ideal hero in DC Comics, the latest issue of One-Star Squadron reveals the secret ingredient of heroism that the Man of Steel lacks. Superman is a powerful alien descended to Earth to help the weak and oppressed. It can be difficult for other superheroes to live up to those standards as flawed beings who need their own heroes to lean on. A prime example of this is Red Tornado's One-Star Squadron: forgotten heroes just trying to make ends meet. In the final issue of the limited series, One-Star Squadron, Minute Man explains what heroism truly means.
DC's One-Star Squadron consists of well-known heroes such as Power Girl and Plastic Man alongside more obscure characters including Gangbuster, Minute Man, the Heckler and G.I. Robot. The team works together, offering their hero services for a fee, similar to Marvel's Heroes for Hire. They create their own app and buy an office building, but when being a hero becomes a business, conflict arises. After finding out that Lex Luthor is behind a shell company buying out their business, Minute Man panics. He burns down the Heroz4U building—not knowing that Gangbuster is inside—and things begin to spiral.
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In One-Star Squadron #6 by Mark Russel, Steve Lieber and Dave Stewart, Minute Man sends a letter to Red Tornado, telling him what's become of his life after he attempts to kill himself. By a strange twist of fate, his body is found and he's helicoptered to Metropolis General. The pilot is none other than his old Miraclo dealer, who's turned his own life around, telling Minute Man that «as long as you're alive, you haven't screwed things up
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