Supreme #28
I won this comic in 2019. It was a door prize on Free Comic Book Day at Okecon, a small con put on by the amazing Ware County Library in Waycross, GA! Sadly, I got what I paid for. This is-- just awful.
Where to begin? Supreme is a pretty-obvious knock-off based on the premise of what if... Superman were EXTREME?! The curmudgeony, gray-haired hero returns from a long absence in space with a very "get off my lawn" attitude toward Earth's newer heroes and things go from there.
Supreme, Kid Supreme, and Glory (Rob Liefeld's versions of Superman, Superboy, and Wonder Woman) battle an evil cultist and his Ghost Riders, I mean, his “Blackhearts” (oops, also a demon character from Marvel! Guess they liked the name.) It would be easy to harp on the clumsy art, juvenile cussing, poor pacing, and more, but why beat a dead hero? Best to just slip this back into the longbox, where it will never see the light of day again.
I like Gary Carlson. He has written some good comics, but this thing is a mess. Maybe the art then! If the art were just a little better? Carlson’s Big Bang Comics are great, and I recall that Rapmund got a lot better with time, but this is not a good showing by either of them.
Supreme as a title did get a lot better, phenomenally so. The Alan Moore run is incredible, especially the bits illustrated by Chris Sprouse and Rick Veitch. After that, though many pearls were clutched for him daring to undo anything set up by Moore, I also enjoyed Erik Larsen's stint as writer.
Weird Comic Logic: In a rush to speak to a doctor occupied with another patient, Supreme uses heat visions to zap away tumors on someone’s lung and vertebrae, “but I don’t have a clue about dealing with organ damage!” Then why did you do that? Lungs are organs.
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