If I'd just returned to Earth after 50 years, I'm not sure what kind of a welcome I'd expect/like, but it's certainly nothing like the one that Supreme gets. No wonder he spends so much of his time being really angry in this series. A Youngblood team is sent into orbit to intercept him, and one of them attacks him. Why, superheroes? Why do you always do this when you meet? *sigh*
I told the proprietor of my favourite comic store in Calgary that I was trying to read my way through this stuff, and he said he looked forward to seeing my brains dribbling out of my ears next weekend. We'll see. It's not great, I'll say that. But there's a moment at the very end that seems to point to some interesting character development in the character. I'll go ahead and assume that that gets forgotten. Even going through my database and seeing the numerous hands this title is passed through on an alarmingly regular basis quashes any hope I had of a coherent story. But, perhaps, that's why Alan Moore's run is so good. Not only does it read well itself, but it gives us a lens through which to view the older stories of Supreme. I'm finding this these days with all of the old Extreme Studios titles, in that they've all had remarkably successful and critically brilliant reboots that somehow elevate the admittedly sub-par early issues. We read Graham and Roy's Prophet, and we can find some value in the early Liefeld Prophets. Same with Supreme and Alan Moore's run. And Warren Ellis's, for that matter. Perhaps we can read this initial run of issues as another perspective on a revision gone wrong. The universe simply can't decide what to do with Supreme.
To be continued.
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