Supreme issue 10 was published in February 1994. The story is by Rob Liefeld (no longer calling himself Ripley). The script, lettering and editing is done by Kurt Hathaway. Brian Murray does the pencils and the colors. And Joe Rubenstein does the inks.
Max interviews Supreme on live TV. She recaps what we knew about him being in WWII, including that he dropped bombs on Berlin by himself.
She then gets into the hard-hitting questions, such as, why did he leave after the war?
She accuses Supreme of being allied with Khrome, but he says, nope and that Khrome is dead. So she accuses him of being involved in the innocent deaths at Dulles airport. And he's like, "Innocent people die." Shrug.
She then asks him about his origin story. He says he was human, but now he's a god.
As a mortal, he was forced to volunteer for the secret government experiments of Dr. Wells (the same Dr. Wells that Moore brought back later).
He was shot full of drugs and exposed to radiation that made his body stronger and his mind smarter.
He soon decided that he had been divinely picked to be a supreme being.
The interview is interrupted to cut to Arizona where a superpowered being named Quantum has escaped and is fighting with Brigade. Supreme then takes off to face Quantum, which is part of the Extreme Prejudice crossover that will take over Supreme issue 11.
I never made the Dr. Wells connection. I wonder if anyone will ever try to do anything with the two versions of the character. How he goes from small town scientist to German war doctor. Also good luck with Supreme 11, its considered by most as the worst issue of the title.
ReplyDeleteThe nice thing about the revision concept is that it doesn't matter that Wells was a different character in these old issues. And the link between the characters is interesting.
DeleteI've read pretty far ahead and there are some terrible issues. The fun part is that they become terrible in all different ways. Like when Supreme became a woman and then they tried to rewrite it so she was always a woman. Just wow.