Supreme Power, Volume 3: High Command

I was expecting this series to be trash, because most comics are and this one in particular was yet another one doing the Watchmen thing: 'what if Superman was actually real?' Every comic writer who has taken on this question seems to have missed the point of what Moore was saying when he put Dr. Manhattan in Vietnam, and has treated the reality American military might with a glib edgelordist nihilism, and I'd be thinking here of the likes of Mark Millar, Garth Ennis and some other guy whose name I can't remember. The edgelordism is not 100% absent here, but it feels earned by its broader critique and the fact that it actually felt like it was taking imperialism seriously. I'm aware that I'm talking about a superhero comic here.

The quality does dip at a few points, the felt need to iterate through the IP without evident payoff is a problem, the Olympian origins of the Wonder Woman analogue, the version of Batman being into Malcolm X is good until it isn't, but I don't know, it was nice to read one of these things and feel like I was getting something out of it as opposed to wasting an hour I'll never get back. Maybe I'm concussed.