Blur (comics)
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The Blur (Stanley Stewart) is a superhero in Supreme Power, a comic book published under the Marvel Comics MAX imprint.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Supreme Power
The Blur is the alter ego of Stanley Stewart, a young African-American farm boy who gained superhuman speed as a result of a retro-virus that arrived on Earth at the same time as Hyperion, an extraterrestrial of ambiguous origins. Upon discovering his powers, Stanley decided to keep them a secret while he trained to be a hero. After gaining notoriety as an urban legend known as the "Atlanta Blur", Stanley was approached by show business agents who offered him a very lucrative product endorsement contract. After enjoying a period of public celebrity and wealth, he was confronted by Nighthawk, who accused him of abandoning his dreams of being a hero. Convinced that there was more good to be done as a hero than as a celebrity, he formed an uneasy partnership with Nighthawk and Hyperion in order to stop a super-human serial killer. However, his partnership with Nighthawk effectively ended when Stanley overheard Nighthawk describing him as a "house Negro." Since then, he has continued to associate with Hyperion and act as a vigilante. After Hyperion's extraterrestrial origins were revealed to the media, the Justice Department started investigating other superhumans with similar abilities (such as the Blur) and offering them amnesty if they identified themselves and agreed to work for the Government.
[edit] Squadron Supreme
After Hyperion informed reporter Jason Scott of the project, the US President gave a press conference calling the project Squadron Supreme. The team signed identification and non-disclosure forms and was given its first mission, to "to take out" an African general named John M'Butu, whose voice can compel obedience. In Africa, Stanley said to himself "Don't know what the hell I'm even doing here".
In the middle of a fight, Blur meets five unnamed African super-humans, who are the ones to actually stop John M'Butu. After three of the five killed John M'Butu, the other two informed the Squadron to leave Africa. One, however, told Stan that he was a good man. Afterwards, Stan told Hyperion that the two men live in "different worlds". After the end of the mission, the Squadron were then ordered to take down insurgents in Ilam Province in Iran. During this mission, Stanley Stewart wondered if the team was doing the right thing and Hyperion, seeing a large number of buried bodies, gave him an answer.
The team was given rest and recreation time. Stanley Stewart went home to see how his mother was doing. He learned that the events of "Long Walk" had caused all of his sponsors to boycott him, although his managers claimed to have gotten betters sponsors such as Lockheed Martin. Later, he talked to Kyle Richmond and asked him to join the Squadron. Richmond declined the offer.
[edit] The Future?
Nighthawk had asked the Blur to keep an eye on things: one year later, in an alternate future, Blur sees Hyperion use behavior modification technology on Blue Eagle and tries to escape undetected, but is caught and kept imprisoned by Hyperion. However, Hyperion is unwilling to use the behavior modification technology on Blur, because he still hopes for his friend to "see the light" on his own.
[edit] Differences between Blur and Whizzer
Blur and most of the other characters in Supreme Power are rebooted versions of the Squadron Supreme and based loosely on members of DC Comics' long-standing Justice League of America. One member of both was an analog of Flash. The Squadron Sinister version was named the Whizzer and later Speed Demon, while the Squadron Supreme's Whizzer was a former mailman and doting family man named Stanley Stewart. Neither those versions of the Whizzer nor the Blur are related to the original Golden Age superhero known as the Whizzer.
