Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #6

  

Supreme issue 6 came out in October 1993. Rob Liefeld did the story. Brian Murray did the lettering, story, script, and colors. Chris Ivy did the inks. Kurt Hathaway is the letterer and editor.

The story starts with all five then-living presidents talking about the destruction from the ongoing Supreme/Khrome fight and it is amazing!

 

I can't decide whether they're trolling us or if they actually believe all the ex-presidents were just hanging out with Bill Clinton. Either way, I want more of this! Anyway, Clinton orders Bloodstrike to take down Supreme, which happened over in the Bloodstrike series. (I'll talk about this very slightly at the end.)

In the fight, Supreme discovers the secret to Khrome's power and takes off to disable it, to the chagrin of reporter Max, who hates Supreme (we'll get more into that later). 

We get a few cutaways to side plots (Thor is still around; the serial killer Grizlock has escaped; Heavy Mettle is still boring; etc.). 

Supreme disables Khrome's powers and kills Khrome:

 

Supreme proceeds to quit Heavy Mettle and plans to track down Grizlock when some superpowered beings from the future show up and call Supreme their father: 

 

 

Yeah, ok. What a weird comic. At least you never really know what's going to happen next. 

Let's now take a quick look at Bloodstrike issue 5.

Bloodstrike are assigned to take out Supreme. It doesn't go well for them:

The end. 

Don't worry, though. Bloodstrike works for a covert government project that resurrects them, so they can come back and do more deep ops. Phew!

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #5

  

Supreme issue 5 came out in August 1993. Rob Liefeld provided the story. Brian Murray wrote the script, pencilled and did the colors. Chris Ivy did the inks. Kurt Hathaway did the lettering and has now taken over as editor. Interesting.

We start off with some backstory from Khrome about how Supreme used to be his ally. Together they fought with the Katellans against the Torgans. I really have no idea who any of these races are and they play no role in anything I've ever read before or after this, so I'm not going to bother trying to find out more.

 

Anyway, Khrome became a galactic warlord and has now decided to invade Earth... mainly because Supreme is from there! Lucky Earth!

We then get more fighting between Heavy Mettle and Khrome until Supreme joins in and there's even more fighting. There's a ridiculous scene where Khrome grabs a fully loaded jet and smashes it into Supreme, killing all on board.  

 We see a reporter covering the events, who will become important in the issues to come.

Meanwhile, we get some portents of things to come with some people from the future and a god.

 

 

 

 

And then it's back to more of the fight with Khrome, which inexplicably, goes on for another issue! See you next time for more Khrome. 

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #4

 

 

Supreme 4 was published in Jul 1993 with a plot by Rob Liefeld; pencils, script and colors by Brian Murray; and lettering by Kurt Hathaway.

After dealing with the terrorists at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, he flies off to go confront Khrome, the alien leader with a grievance against Supreme. 

We get some scenes of infighting with Heavy Mettle, but they're not going to be around much longer, so let's not worry about them. 

As Supreme fights a Khrome clone, the real Khrome transports to Dulles and blows it up, for reasons that are never explained. I think to punish Supreme? 

There's a long pointless fight between Khrome and Heavy Mettle, which goes about how you would expect.

Supreme figures out the clone situation and goes down to fight Khrome. 

We don't really learn anything new about Supreme or anything that will become important in his later, Moore incarnation.

This is kind of what I assumed these early Supremes were like and they're not letting me down!

Next time... more Khrome... yay.