Squadron Supreme #12 - "Finding Namor, Part 3"

[laughing_tree]

'I was told at the time, “You can kill him off but you have to bring him back quickly. You can’t take too long.” So the funny thing is I originally intended to bring him back in issue #6, but then Tom Brevoort said, “If anybody wants to set something in Weirdworld that would be great.” So I did the two issues in Weirdworld, which ultimately, every single aspect of those two issues and what came after all lead up to the resurrection of Namor: Doctor Spectrum, Hyperion’s vulnerability to magic, Warrior Woman and the country that she’s taken over. All of those were narrative building blocks that were building to the current “Finding Namor” arc. So I always intended to bring Namor back, but it was interesting that his inevitable return of course got delayed, and then you don’t realize that all of a sudden he’s been dead for 10 months.' -- James Robinson























Atlantis, in the past:

Comments

[survivor19]

So. Namor is alive again?

[zylly]

Yeah, I couldn't get upset about them killing Namor in the first issue. Marvel wasn't about to let one of its oldest, still profitable characters stay dead for very long.

Granted, I rarely get upset about any comic book death these days. There's only a handful of ones I couldn't figure out at least six ways to bring back to life in three pages, even if many of those are comic-booky as hell.

[bruinsfan]

What I'm wondering is how do the Squadron Supreme remember Namor blowing up their Earths after the big reboot at the end of Secret Wars? Surely he wasn't running around still doing that to the recreated universes with no incursions happening? Are they all survivors of the previous multiverse seeking vengeance for worlds that have since been restored?

[philippos42]

I haven't been reading this, but I don't think the Squadron know about the Future Foundation trying to restore worlds. They're angry and on their own.