Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme: Glory Days #2

Issue 2 came out in December 1994. The story was by Rob Liefeld, Robert Napton and Karl Altstaetter. Scripted, edited and lettered by Kurt Hathaway. Pencils by David Williams and inked by Gary Martin.

We start off with The Baron, reborn. But since they only have access to certain parts of the Bloodstrike reborn project, he's a twisted, old man. It's believed that if they can combine his DNA with that of a Supreme being, he'll be much more powerful. The Baron knows exactly who he wants... Glory! Wait, not Supreme? Wasn't expecting that. 

Back in Glory's apartment, she's trying to clean up after smashing Supreme through her ceiling last issue. 

 

She opens her front door and Nazi robots come pouring in trying to capture her. 

While she's not paying attention, a Nazi guy shocks her unconscious, and they take her away. 

Supreme, meanwhile, is sitting atop Mount Rushmore, fuming that Glory turned his romantic proposal down. 

Superpatriot and Die Hard show up and tell him that Glory is missing. She has a tracker that shows her somewhere deep in the Pacific. So the Allies team up with Roman to look for Glory. 

On a Nazi sub, The Baron is sucking the life force out of Glory and giving it to himself. 

The Allies burst into the Nazi sub and start fighting with the Nazis. Supreme quickly attacks The Baron, who also quickly escapes. Wow, all that set up for almost no tension or action.

 

He's got the sub rigged to blow up but fortunately not in any hurry, so the Allies leisurely get Glory aboard their own sub. 

Supreme goes to look for The Baron, but no luck. And Glory is back to her old self after about an hour. Phew. 

Die Hard tries to get Supreme to commit to working with the Allies again and Supreme says "Maybe."

The end.

It took three people to come up with this story? Oof. Well, at least it was pretty to look at. It's weird because it has al the elements of a fun series, WWII era action, Nazi villains, robots and submarines and they had no idea how to utilize any of it for a good story. 

Also, it didn't really tell us anything we didn't already know about Supreme in the WWII era, and it didn't really do much to set up a romance between Supreme and Glory, as he's terrible and she has the personality of a wafer. So... what exactly was this series supposed to do?

Oh well. At least it was short. 

What did you think?