(Just got out the handy dandy calculator, and I'm actually only 30 days away from completing Year Three! That's pretty neat.)
Is it weird that I'm actually quite enjoying Supreme? I think it's because I have no fucking clue what's going to happen next. This is a world of complete chaos, and Supreme is a chaotic god. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to anything he does. But we are getting a bit of back story, through the appearance of Khrome, an enemy from Supreme's time in space. You can't tell from the picture on the cover, but he has 3-inch long spiky teeth top and bottom. I can't imagine how he closes his mouth.
I think there's something to be said for Supreme as an avatar of sorts for chaos. We know his story attains some sort of semblance of order when Moore takes over, then back to chaos with Larsen, and then even more with Ellis and Lotay, and then a final kind of order in Prophet. It's a given that he's a Superman proxy, but he's a Superman proxy that gets handed from creator to creator at lightning speed - of course his life is chaotic. Or is it that without the depth of history Superman has, a hero of this strength will be an agent of chaos? Wasn't Superman, in some ways, in his early days?
And yet more, there's a lovely kind of simplicity to the comics. They're comics by fans of superheroes for fans of superheroes, trading on the shared series of symbols we all understand. But these symbols, too, have a history in their respective universes. Early Image comics try to put forth a superhero universe with a deep history, but then don't fill it out. The actions of the characters in the comics are the actions of hollow shells. The other option is to go the New Universe route and have an event that changes things, building a history from the ground up. Neither approach is better than the other.
Feel like I was rambling a bit today. Supreme is provoking some thoughts.
To be continued.
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