So I'm having a pain day, and I'm quite medicated. Apologies if this rambles a bit.
Our first (and only?) sojourn of Supreme into another company's universe. Sort of. I am only very vaguely aware of the characters published by Valiant Comics. I read some of their stuff under the Acclaim banner, but they'd sort of fizzled out in the mid-90s when I got back into comics. I know some about the old Dell characters they have, and some about the original properties, and I've had the recent Valiant stuff highly recommended to me. I just can't get past them not having Christopher Priest back to write Quantum & Woody. Criminal, if you ask me.
What's pretty neat about this issue is that we get a real glimpse into Supreme's character. In fact, it's so significant a glimpse that I wonder why it happened in this crossover, rather than in his own title. He teams with Doctor Solar to stop an oil fire in Northern Alberta after which Solar asks him for help in stopping his future self from destroying the universe. As one does. Supreme, all beardy here, agrees, and then waxes a bit lyrical about how upset he is to find the heroes he's returned to after 50 years in space little more than corporate mercenaries. And all of a sudden, the anger he displays is slightly, but only slightly, mitigated, and the tear that we see in his eye at the end of the first issue is perhaps explained. I guess the idea is that Superman returns after 50 years to find the DCU populated by narcissistic assholes.
Am I giving Supreme too much credit for self-awareness here? I'm not sure.
Anyway, what Deathmate gives us is a brief look at a more thoughtful Supreme. Not quite the naive paragon of Justice of Alan Moore's run, but certainly more of a hero.
To be continued.
(Edit - I forgot to say that the apocalypse that threatens the universe is demonstrated in the far-flung apocalyptic future of April 8, 2018! Don't say you weren't warned!)
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