Supreme issue 7 came out in November 1993. The story is by Eric Stephenson and someone named, I kid you not, Ripley. Pencils and inks are by Shawn McManus. Kurt Hathaway has now taken over the writing, lettering and editing. That's efficient. Just have the letterer try to make it all make sense.
The superpowered beings from the future are known as Starguard and we get their roll call in one of those weird rotated double-page splashes Extreme used to love doing:
They're here to offer a warning. What's the warning? "...be ready--ready to conquer the menace when it arises." That is really helpful. Before they can say more, their emergency alarm goes off and they have to hurry and deal with it... because Ripley and the other writers don't really understand how time travel works. Sigh.
We then get back to the weird plot about the reporter, Max. Apparently now she's incredibly mad about Dulles airport blowing up... because her dad was inside!
This is brand new information that isn't presented in any kind of believable way. It's like they realized that her motivation made no sense, so they decided to one up it... to the EXTREME!
Anyway, Max confronts Supreme, demanding he take responsibility, which SHOCKER, he does not.
There's a whole thing about Heavy Mettle being scrapped, which is just about as boring as when Heavy Mettle was active.
We cut to Thor, who is in Germany, demanding to be taken to see Adolf Hitler.
Thor has returned to kill Hitler, not realizing it is 1993. Supreme flies off to deal with Thor.
It turns out the mysterious identity of Ripley was Rob Liefeld himself. Apparently he was a big fan of writers using pseudonyms so he decided to do it himself. He also did it on Brigade. I'm not sure why he decided to do it on a title he was already writing but I guess he was at least writing story for all the extreme titles to begin with
ReplyDeleteReally? Where'd you get that info?
DeleteHe mentioned it on his podcast. I can't remember which episode. Just something said during one of his rambles.
DeleteInteresting. I recall on a couple of later issues there was someone credited as Zebra Macpherson, who had no other credits before or since, and someone on my blog asked if that was a pseudonym, but I didn't know. Now I wonder if that was also Liefeld.
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