Supreme issue 14 had a story from Rob Liefeld, was written, edited and lettered by Kurt Hathaway, and had art by Dan Fraga. It came out in June 1994. (They were going for an every 2 week thing.)
This is part 2 of Supreme Madness, a 6-part storyline where Supreme takes the Grand Tour of the Image Universe. In this issue, we see Union and his friend Jill at the Smithsonian when something blows up. Union jumps into action.
So... Union? Is he someone anyone remembers? He was one of the comics from Jim Lee's WildStorm and drawn by Mark Texiera. I guess he joined Stormwatch or something. Dunno. Doesn't really matter.
Union flies into the destruction of Grizlock's lab from last issue and finds Supreme, who has gone mad. He's convinced Union is Grizlock trying to get Thor's hammer from Supreme.
It's not really clear what happened to Grizlock. Did he die in the explosion? Did he escape? Does anyone care?
Surprising no one, Supreme and Union proceed to fight. After page after page of fighting, Union realizes that the fight is only antagonizing Supreme's madness, so he pretends to lose the fight and Supreme flies off.
We follow up on the Simple Simon Subplot Supreme. Simon kills Horace's (Grizlock's current crony) brother in an attempt to find out where Horace and Grizlock are. Giving up on that, he suffocates and strangles Horace's brother before setting him on fire.
One thing you can say about Simple Simon is he is subtle.
Where will Supreme go next? No one knows! It's madness!
Man, it's been so long since I last reread any of these comics, I'd forgotten how ridiculous they were. It makes me wonder what kept teenage me coming back every issue? Oh well, it was the 90s.
ReplyDeleteRight? I remember being intrigued by the idea. Post Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, the idea of a Supreman-powered guy who would do whatever he wanted and had no restraints sounded cool. But these comics were terrible. I do think this was the last time anyone thought of comics as a pure artist-driven media. Post-Image, a comic had to have at least decent writing or it wouldn't even get considered. Or maybe that was just me. Shrug.
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