Bill Clinton's guest appearance in this comic is quite a rarity. Usually we either have shadowed silhouettes who might be the Commander in Chief, or we have fictitious (but no less white male) Presidents interacting with the characters. How his decision about Supreme plays out will be interesting.
The rest of the comic is Supreme and Khrome beating the hell out of one another, much like yesterday's comic. Which is not so bad. I remember reading Transmetropolitan, and there was a particular story arc where a mega-storm was approaching the city, and Warren Ellis noted in an interview that he had wanted to take this event and stretch it out, allowing the reader to catch every nuance of what was happening in the run up to this cataclysmic event. He suggested that it's a technique that is used in manga fairly often. I try to notice things like this now. While I can't say for sure that this is what Brian Murray was doing over the last three issues, they have basically been one extended fight sequence. Advance, retreat, advance, retreat. And in between those things, we see at least a few reactions to the situation, both from those involved and those outside.
You may have guessed that Supreme wins, eventually. He very basically microwaves Khrome, and it's as gross as you might imagine. And then his daughter from the future shows up.
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To be continued.
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