My god. That cover can't be real, can it? Oh, it's real all right. Welcome to the shitshow that is Supreme issue 11.
Supreme issue 11 was published in March 1994. The story is by Rob Liefeld and Eric Stephenson. The script, letters and editing is by Kurt Hathaway. The art is by Pedi. (No, seriously.)
I'm not going to bother to talk about the plot of this issue because it's basically Quantum, the father of Cabbot (of Bloodstrike) and Battlestone (of Brigade) trying to end all of humanity, while Supreme and the other Extreme beings try to stop him.
Extreme had multiple giant crossovers with all of the other Extreme comics and they're almost all worthless for trying to binge one series. Supreme will appear in it a bit, but it's mostly about way too many other characters and some villain who is always trying to destroy humanity or something in ways that aren't even the littlest bit interesting.
And that's the case here, too. Instead, I want to take a couple of minutes and talk about this art because it is insane.
Hair is going every which way. Eyes are making expressions that are independent of the characters or even the plot of this story. And these muscles must be a parody of Image anatomy, right?
The only thing I can imagine is that Pedi is a European artist who came over for some easy money and turned in an absolute mockery of Image Comics, and they ran it anyway.
Because anything else makes absolutely no sense.
Wow.
Me and the girl I'm seeing met through our mutual love of extreme comics. She was fairly new to comics and from an interesting in Spawn fell into the Liefeld rabbit hole. Supreme 11 was the first time she ever really disliked the art in a comic enough to give it a bad review. Pedi had become a running joke between us, to the point where I was responsible for his picture on league of comic Geeks. There's even a running gag between me and few guys on the league that were part of "The Cult of Pedi". Fun times.
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