I've come to realize one of the things that early Image, and Extreme Studios stuff in particular, does that I find off-putting. It's almost like there's this explicit drive to have page and panel layouts that are...bigger, somehow. And not necessarily in a good way. I do, to a certain extent, appreciate the use of a double-page spread that one has to tilt the comic to read. There's something very cool about having movement woven into the fabric of the reading process. However, the other pages look like they're about half a page blown-up to fill a full page. Which leads to the feeling that, having read three issues of Supreme by now, I feel like I've only really received about one comic's worth of story. It could just be Brian Murray's style, and I'll have to keep an eye as the series progresses through other artists.
Can we just step back from the story for a moment and look at that cover. Supreme's body is nightmarish. I couldn't help but try to imagine a body like that without the supersuit, and it was terrifying. How is he not pulling everything around him into his orbit with a density like that?
And back into the narrative - Supreme kills, quite brutally, a whole lot of people in today's issue, and just as he's being called to account for it, he flies off into space, ostensibly having detected an enemy vessel inbound. I think the problem I'm having with the character thus far is that his motivation is completely absent. There was that moment of emotion at the end of the first issue, and since then it's been about killing people who he thinks are bad and ignoring everyone else. I'm trying to figure out why he would have returned to a planet that he really seems to care nothing for. As I noted above, it seems like I've only read about one comic worth of story, so I'll try to be patient, but if you've got a character this extreme (Oohhh...I get it now), it might be nice for us to understand this extremity. Or did people in the 90s who were reading comics just want blood?
To be continued.
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