The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1124: Supreme #19, September 1994

Supreme regains consciousness and decides to take out the mob.

For...reasons?

There's something about an old girlfriend who was killed, I think, by a mobster, but no other real reason.

Oh, and Kid Supreme shows up. Apparently an explosion during Supreme's battle with Union has imbued this dude with powers. He bursts into a mob hideout secure in the knowledge that their bullets will bounce off because of the knife he "tested on his arm."

I think I have to see these stories as the most basic type of this mythic story, in that they are told with little to no nuance or critical thought. They're surface, and not much else. Again, that depth is added by the later writers who see the plant into which this seed can grow.

But it's a very angry seed, at the moment.

More to come...

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1123: Supreme #18, August 1994

And just like that, Supreme's madness subsides (well, after some more random violence).

I am not entirely certain what the story, what the moral, what the point was of this 6-part story. I can't imagine waiting with baited breath every month to see 20 pages of impossible people beating the crap out of each other. Like, literally half a year of this. But, if the letters pages are to be believed, there are those who thought this was the greatest comic they'd ever read. I'm stunned.

The aforementioned Grizlock confederate, Simple Simon, shows up and hands Supreme his ass, and then flies off, cackling (well, not really, but he may as well have).

I thought breaking Supreme up into manageable chunks would make it easier, but this comic is just dismal. Except that issue with Spawn.

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The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1122: Supreme #17, August 1994

Pitt and Supreme beat on each other. For 20 pages.

More to come...