Supreme issue 16 came out in July 1994. Story by Rob Liefeld. Written, edited and lettered by Kurt Hathaway. Penciled by Todd Nauck and inked by Norm Rapmund.
Supreme Madness rolls on! The Grand Tour of the Image universe picks up with Stormwatch. If you don't remember, and why should you, Stormwatch was a superhero team run by the United Nations, overseen from a satellite by its director, the Weatherman. The team was made up of Battalion, an American telekinetic, Hellstrike, an Irish police officer who is an energy being, Winter, an ex-Russian Spetznaz officer and an energy absorber, Fuji, a young Japanese man, an energy being trapped in a containment suit, and Diva, a young Italian woman with sonic powers. It was one of Jim Lee's series, which tended to look great but had the most boring, convoluted storylines.
While looking for Supreme in their flying ship, and recapping the last few issues, Stormwatch literally runs into Supreme, who tells them to stop following him. And that's all the opportunity anyone needs to start fighting. This is so EXTREME!
Stormwatch knocks Supreme out of the sky, but now he's much more of a risk of doing harm, so they go down after him. The fight gets even more dumb, as Winter turns to the others, asking to take on Supreme, while Supreme walks up from behind and punches him out.
Battalion uses his psychic powers to sense that Supreme seems to be drowning in his feelings, in his madness. And still, Supreme rages on.
We cut to Simon "Simple Simon" Simpkins (that is a terrible name, no wonder he became a lackey of Grizlock), who is breaking into Grizlock's secret lab under Fort Knox... good think it's not very well guarded.
Back on Supreme, he flies up and starts tearing up Stormwatch's ship. The Weatherman calls them up and says that they're making the situation with Supreme worse, and tells them to depart. They will, once they chuck Supreme out of the ship. Supreme crash lands into a building with a merry-go-round, where The Pitt happens to be standing.
I wonder if they'll fight next?
In the letters page, there's an interesting question, "Why the heck does it say Volume II on the front cover of Supreme #1?" That's a good question. The answer, according to the letters page, "The Supreme regular series is volume II because volume I will be a series chronicling the adventures of our hero before he left Earth. The upcoming Legend of Supreme will be volume III."
That makes absolutely no sense. But it is a good reminder that I'll be breaking from the regular series reviews to cover both Legends of Supreme and Glory Days miniseries as they come up soon.
I also like that someone custom made an action figure:
This comic really didn't deserve the fans it had. Ah well, more madness next time.
