As I've been going through these After Awesome series, it's become more and more clear to me that I'm not really looking for a continuation of the characters from the Moore series as much as I am looking for an ending. I'm looking for a place to let go. If I had that, I wonder if I would have started this website in the first place.
Fortunately, the fan-creators came along and not only completed Moore's Youngblood scripts, but they even gave us a proper ending for the series, and much of the Awesome universe, too. We never got Moore's Prophet or much of the Allies or the New Men, so I'm not sure they matter. And though we never got a conclusion to Glory, it feels like we'll get those last two scripts one day.
But the ending, or non-ending to Supreme leaves a big hole.
If you like, you can see Supreme Blue Rose as an ending to his saga. But while that seems to close the door on his universe, it didn't deal with the threads of Ethan Crane's individual story. What happened with the Darius Daxes? What happened to Supreme and Diana? There are too many answers that I still want wrapped up.
But, maybe if the professionals won't do it, it's up to the fans to create their own stories. As you've seen from this site, I like fanfiction, from the stories by the Awesome Army Online to Youngblood 8-12.
Moore believed that all of our imaginations are connected through stories. He's been sharing his imagination through these characters to us for so long, it seems only fair that the imaginary worlds he has created could and should continue to exist in the imaginations of the fans. And if they do, who is to say that their imagined stories are any worse than the ones that got and continue to get professionally published? I mean, did you see Youngblood 2012?
So, though I'm clearly not as good as some of those other fanfiction writers, I present my attempt at a fan-edit of Supreme #64. I took Erik Larsen's (and some others') art and rejiggered it. Through it all, I attempted to answer the questions I wanted answered. Maybe I should have started from scratch and written the whole thing from the beginning, but this is the best end I could come up with using what I had available. I hope it gives you the closure it gives me.
Let me know what you think or any critiques you have in the comments. You can download the whole thing here or read it below.
So, the fan-edit starts with a page I'm adding to the end of Supreme: The Return #1. Chris Sprouse drew this page as the last page for that issue, but it was never used and Moore's dialogue for the page has never become public. So I felt it was fair game for this fan-edit:
And here is the fan-edit of Supreme #64:
So, I owe a lot of people thanks for helping me complete this issue:
- Clearly Erik Larsen and Cory Hamscher did the lion share with their Supreme #64 (and a few pieces from later in their run). They get a lot of crap, but without them there wouldn't be this opportunity for closure.
- I used the unpublished Sprouse page and one of his commissions for the cover (and a sketch on the Alan Moore quote page).
- Rick Veitch gave me that tremendous commission which became the imaginary #64 cover (and was edited for use on the credits page). I also stole the Abyss image from his work in Supreme #49.
- I commissioned Allan Whincup (from the AAO) to do the other two pages in the Supremacy sequence. His work in the AAO is totally worth checking out. You can also find him on DeviantArt.
- Sebastian Sala did the fill in pieces for The End and the girl from Judgment Day. You can see more of his work on DeviantArt.
- The new pieces were colored by Rohvel Yumul. And I did the lettering.
- Derek Mont-Ros helped with some great editing suggestions.
- The Alan Moore quote came from George Khoury's wonderful The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore.
- The end piece is the Alex Ross painting that should have been the cover for the first Supreme collection, had Awesome not gone out of business.
- And I probably should thank Alan Moore for creating characters and comics that have only grown in my estimation (and imagination) since reading them 20 years ago.
Thanks all! I hope you're not offended by how I used your work.
Updated: Wow! The good people at Bleeding Cool have said some nice things about the fan-edit. Thanks for the notice!
Updated: Wow! The good people at Bleeding Cool have said some nice things about the fan-edit. Thanks for the notice!
-Unreal. Thanks for these ideas and working on these.
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Sometimes Moore makes his series seem like a real look inside his imagination; I even think, at times, Alan Moore makes writing look easy and he is genius.
From around issue #41 [reading Supreme again recently and seeing these pages and your commentaries], I felt that it was noticable
pages' art were never keeping any consistency/quality.
Perhaps if they'd kept a regimen (MAXIMUM/IMAGE/AWESOME name and publisher changes) and if the editors maintained or hired simply the favorites for artists: Veitch and Chris Sprouse, for instance - I suspect the series could have made a real impact and even sold in much higher sales numbers back then. . .
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I heard Liefeld offered the whole series to Marvel all redone with a single artist, but Marvel turned home down.
DeleteI also found *AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Revenge of The Sinister Six*, with Larsen artwork, and they were better than the SUPREME pages - I cannot see how 23 years on the original artists series were better work than really recent made art pages!
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I agree. Both Larsen and a Liefeld did better work than they did on Supreme. I think they rushed it. Cory Hamscher did some nice work on his run. That image of Supreme looking thoughtful was by him and I thought it was beautiful.
DeleteThis is absolutely incredible. Incredible. Everything about this (the sly cameo in the final crowd of Supremes! King Supreme consoling Mean Supreme!) is just what an ending to this series needed to be. Sincerely, thank you for this.
ReplyDeleteThank you. That’s very nice of you to say. It’s always gratifying when people notice the little details.
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ReplyDeleteI came upon this blog coincidently as soon as I started reading Moore's full run of Awesome comics. I know it's an overused expression, but this is a labor of love. I had a great time reading your comments after each issue and I was thrilled to discover that fans have re-created his remaining Youngblood stories. And now this... I loved what you did with the last imaginary issue, how you worked lost and original pieces of artwork from the series two main artists into it and managed to tie up loose ends (even from Judgement Day!) in a thematically fulfilling way. It's quite an accomplishment and actually kind of inspiring, your love for this little known corner of Moore's body of work. Alan Moore should find out about this, as I'm sure he would be happier with a fan finishing his creation than any big publisher. Who knows, maybe you even tapped into the same ideas from ideaspace that he would have had :)
Congratulations and a thank you supreme.
Thanks, that's very nice of you to say. Moore has been quoted a number of times saying that he prefers not talking about his work-for-hire creations because it's so painful to him to know that he has no control of them. And from what else I've read, I think Moore spends a lot less time thinking about his comics than his fans do (or think he does). That's a long way to say, I'm not sure he'd care all that much, but that's okay.
DeleteThis issue was never about Moore (okay, well, not too much about Moore). There's a strong theme of fans taking over ownership of the ideas from deficient or indifferent owners throughout this site (more than I thought there would be when I first started it), which became a thematic thread in the fan-edit. I think only a fan would have woven that in, but it seems like if Supreme is to live on, it has to be in the hands of the fans.
So I'm really happy other fans are finding it an acceptable conclusion. It's not the easiest thing to follow Moore (as Erik Larsen found out).
Hey! Your work and this site is beyond AWESOME (sorry for the pun). I'm a huge Professor Night and Twilight fan and I was wondering if you have any information on where they ended up after the story started in Bloodstrike #2?
ReplyDeleteIs that the new Bloodstrike series? I haven't started it yet. Is it any good?
DeleteNo, their appearance was in the Rob Liefeld penciled series from a couple of years ago. The story was never finished but I don't know if they appeared anywhere else since. The new Bloodstrike series is ok.
DeleteThe series that I'm referring to is Bloodstrike (2015) issue 2. It features Prof. Night battling some girl while looking for Twilight. I haven't been able to find any other Prof. Night appearances after it and it, of course, was left unfinished. Any help you can offer is appreciated!
DeleteWell, it's a Rob Liefeld written and drawn series that amazingly lasted two issues, so the answer is probably that it doesn't matter. He's moved on to something else and will forget that he was ever doing anything with these characters, anyway. Nothing he ever does with these characters stays in continuity anyway, so I wouldn't waste too much time thinking about it.
DeleteI finally got a chance to read this through and it absolutely improves my opinion of Supreme: The Return. Question: what process did you use to make this? Did you start with a plot, then make a script and then find the images to fit the script? And did you have to compromise the story/script at any point because you could not find a suitable panel?
ReplyDeleteI needed this. Thanks, Mike.
Thanks Doyle. I'm glad it improved The Return for you.
DeleteSo it really started as just a two-page scripted epilogue to issue 63. I hired Allan Whincup to draw it for me. It was just the first and last page of the Supremacy scene. I was happy with that but didn't like leaving the Daxes about to attack.
So I thought there might be enough from the Larsen #64 that I could fan-edit into a suitable story to lead up to the epilogue. That worked up until The End appeared, but I needed someone to fill in half the pages to do everything I wanted with The End, so that's when I hired Sebastian Sala to draw some of the pieces dealing with The End and the girl from Judgment Day. That was fully scripted out to be exactly what I wanted. I had the commission from Rick Veitch that I wanted to work into the Supremacy part, but had a little more script and needed a page for it, so I stole the page from Supreme Sacrifice to slip into the middle of the Supremacy epilogue. That really gave '60s Supreme to explain everything I wanted to say about Supreme's end (there isn't one).
Then I decided to make the imaginary story homage on the credits page to match "Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel..." and decided to use the lost Sprouse page to foreshadow The End a little harder than what had been done in #52a+b.
And a friend, Derek, was nice and helped do some read throughs and help me edit the whole thing until it was as perfect as we could get it.
Ultimately, I'd like to go back and take out all of the Larsen parts and start from scratch on the attack of the Daxes. I'd like to bring in Radar's and Judy Jordan's planets, like Moore originally intended to do. Really, I'd like to use that Veitch cover as a roadmap for what would happen, ultimately leading to The End and the Supremacy. But as I didn't have limitless funds, I settled for doing as much as I could.
So there were compromises, but they were there from the start, as I always envisioned this as a fan-edit and not a straight up new issue. If it was a whole new issue, it'd be even better.
This may be worth mentioning that 2018 and this year - with the publication of LEAGUE: The Tempest that Alan Moore may be very, very close to winding down his comics-script writing. Also the SHOW PIECES and the Show are being produced, so though I feel Moore might actually be genius, we can see him continuing his work and writing in other forms - I have to date seen a couple of the JIMMY'S END and show pieces completed film segments.
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ReplyDeleteI discovered your blog a few weeks ago and would like to congratulate you on a great piece of work, especially your fan-edit of Supreme #64.
I've been an admirer of Moore's Supreme since #41 came out (yes, I am of an advanced age), and, like so many others, waited all those years for its conclusion — but Erik Larsen did not give me what I'd waited for. The last Moore script? Oh, there was Moore's voice here and there in Larsen's #63, but I have my doubts as to whether we actually got what Moore had intended or perhaps had even written.
I'm not sure if your blog is active or currently dormant so I won't say too much here, but this is something I'd very much like to discuss with you and, hopefully, the others who comment here.
And I would love to know where and how to access the Youngblood fan-edits you've talked about... I need closure there too.
All the best...
Erik
Hey Erik, as you can see, I had taken a bit of a break but am back with an analysis of A Small Killing, which should keep things a little more lively around here for the next few weeks.
DeleteThanks for the nice words. Believe me, I'm right there with you on waiting a loooong time for a conclusion to Supreme.
Feel free to respond in the comments or shoot me an email at michaeldshea@gmail.com to talk through some of your other points.
Thanks!
Great to hear from you, Mike! As my ideas about what Moore may have intended for his conclusion to Supreme are likely to be quite lengthy, I think it would be best if I sent you an email to begin with, with the hope that it won't be of a TL;DR nature. I'm glad to hear you're still busy analysing the man's work. For what it's worth, my favourite Moore series is Halo Jones, followed by V for Vendetta. (Like Grant Morrison, I don't rate Watchmen as highly as nearly everyone else; the 'space monster' plot is weak and unconvincing, and — heresy! — I prefer the Manhattan-is-to-blame angle of the movie.) His Supreme is a special case — it's a warm fuzzy nostalgic delight that cannot be otherwise categorised.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, now that Moore's "final script" has been published, has anyone other than a few folk at Image actually SEEN the script as written by Moore?
I hope to be in touch shortly. Thanks again.
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Hey Erik, absolutely shoot me a message at michaeldshea@gmail.com. I'm always curious to hear how people think Moore intended to end Supreme. One of the reasons I wrote my fan-edit of issue 64 the way I did was I wanted everyone to be right. That whatever ending they imagined was the right one in Idea Space and the Supremacy.
DeleteI love Halo Jones and V for Vendetta... they are two of my very favorites. I appreciate Watchmen and the genius of its construction more than I love it. It's way too nihilistic and pessimistic for me to love. But Supreme holds such a special place in my heart as the most outright enjoyable thing he ever wrote.
I haven't heard of anyone outside of a few at Image who have read the script for issue 63. Apparently Eric Stephenson had to read/explain parts of it to Erik Larsen (a lot of Eric/ks here) to help him with all the references for the Daxes. There were a ton of them!
I've seen Moore's scripts for the Youngbloods and even up to the last one he wrote, he really doesn't give much direction for where he's going or what he intended to do. For Moore, I imagine when the money ran out, he had no problem leaving the storylines right where they were and just moved on.
Thanks again. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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I think V for Vendetta showed the first act of his creative evolution between issue 1 of Warrior released in March 1982 to issue 10 of the comic book series released in May 1989, with the first seven issues being the reprints of all the episodes printed originally in WARRIOR, with the two interludes from Warrior issues 5 and 20, reprinted in colour by DC, in 1988-89, with issue seven introducing two unpublished episodes in the series for two planned issues of WARRIOR unreleased due to the magazine's cancellation, and issues eight, nine and ten being all-new material, the final book in the saga he had planned in 1981.
DeleteOh, by the way, this year marks thirty years since he began work on the saga, inspired not just by Night Raven, but a whole list of stories seen in "Behind the Painted Smile."
The trade paperback of V for Vendetta was later released by Vertigo and now Black Label, with all of the story, plus interludes and an essay published in Warrior issue 17, "Behind the Painted Smile."
Oh, and thank you for your ending to Supreme.
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(A) Because the art is so detailed or (B) Because Alan Moore shows such depth and versitility in any series.
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SWAMP THING or CROSSED+100
V FOR VENDETTA (read twice in 1990 for a course syllabus)
MARVELMAN // Miracleman
HALO JONES
SUPERMAN the man who has everything (in an annual)
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This story was something very important for my brother and I. It changed a lot of things about who I am, so I only want to say two words to you: "thank you"
ReplyDeleteP.D: Sorry if my english it´s not the best. Greetings from Uruguay!.
Thank you for the nice words. Greetings to you, too! I hope you and your bother are both doing well and are safe.
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Everything about this is Substance Supreme!
ReplyDeleteSo, basically all imaginary? Ha!
DeleteThank you for checking it out and I'm glad you liked it.
For some reason, the final panel of your ending to Supreme, well I just can't help but think about the ending of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, also the conclusion of his run with America's Best Comics, while the series continued with Top Shelf/Knockabout until his retirement two years ago, when Shakespeare's Prospero gives a soliloquy about stories, concluding with "Here are brave banners of romance unfurled to blaze forever in a Blazing World!"
ReplyDeleteNow I realize that I think his version of the Blazing World in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels may have emerged from his concept of the Supremacy. I'm impressed by your articles about the Supreme storylines. Besides, as you wrote, anything is possible.
Thanks for the comment!
DeleteYeah, I think it's pretty clear that Moore meant Idea Space, the Immateria (from Promethea), the Dreamlands (from Providence) and the Blazing World all to be different names for the same "place" ... the place where all ideas live. For me, that's the only place the Supremacy could exist and it's where all creations go, so it was the only proper place for a story about creators and creations to end.
His concept of the place where all ideas live was what helped him for the last 26 years of his career, from 1963 to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest.
DeleteIn my honest opinion, his 1980s comics helped him in getting all of his disgust, anger, despair, hope, and pain about comics, society and what Reagan and Thatcher were doing all out of his system.
Some new problems started within him once the '80s ended, he put that in the '90s, and before he knew it, with The League on Extraordinary Gentlemen, he created something that would be remembered and studied like Watchmen and The Sandman.
So Idea Space, the Immateria, the Dreamlands and the Blazing World are the same concept/principle.
But I think you're onto something: the Supremacy is, well, the Supreme version of the afterlife. Better to have Supreme go to the only proper place for a story about creators and creations to end than end with Ethan Crane have no Supreme powers at all... right?
By the way, I was impressed about issue 44 of Supreme, the one where he recounts the end of 1949, showing, metaphorically, what was going to happen with the EC Comics years, which, very ironically, would inspire writers and artists, such as Alan Moore, Garth Ennis and Len Wein.
The place where all ideas go is probably an interesting and unique concept after all.
I should have written, "Some new problems started within him once the '80s ended, he got that out of his system in the '90s, and before he knew it, with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he created something that would be remembered and studied like his own Watchmen and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman." Sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteYes, I love that EC Comics issue. So clever.
DeleteI think you're right that LoEG will be the comic from the second half of his career that is best remembered, although V for Vendetta is certainly up there with Watchmen for his earlier career works.
I really think that Moore's the kind of creators where people discover him with Watchmen and then can find all kinds of good comics that he did throughout his career.
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DeleteIf possible, you can divide his career into a five-act structure: 1978 to 1983, with act one being his days wriitng/drawing, as well as writing for 2000 AD, Marvel UK and Warrior, act two being the years of his megapopularity from 1984 to 1989, which also continues act one, as well, act three from his independent years with A Small Killing, From Hell, Lost Girls, his first true novel Voice of the Fire and the Awesome Comics era being from 1990 to 1998, act four, with the America's Best Comics and Avatar Press era being from 1999 to 2007, and act five continuing the Lovecraft trilogy starting during act four with Yuggoth Cultures with Neonomicon and concluding with Providence, his webcomics such as Big Nemo, his second novel, Jerusalem, and the continuation/conclusion of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being from 2008 to 2019.
DeleteThat's an interesting way to divide it up. The first two are kind of clear cut. It gets harder after that as he was still doing From Hell while he was doing Supreme. Awesome was clearly the inspiration for ABC, so it's hard to separate those. And as you point out, his LoEG and HP Lovecraft books sort of overlap the last two periods. I'm just appreciative that so much of it was good.
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DeleteI know that. It was just a concept.
ReplyDeleteRight. At some point we'll talk about the end of LoEG and the priority shifting to his prose work being separate periods and someone will point out Jerusalem and Voice of the Fire being written during his comics career. lol
DeleteI just saw something: I think King Supreme was breaking the fourth wall with his quip:
Delete"It's not YOUR fault. Who thought a Mean Supreme was a good idea?"
I thought it was interesting.
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DeleteAnd "it" was the quip in the final page of your ending to Supreme.
Delete"This is such a strange book. So many rewrites and changes. And even when the story is going well, it suddenly does something different or just stops making any sense from what came before. It's so frustrating!"
ReplyDeleteI think the tropes would be referred to as a "cop-out" and a "shocking swerve."
By the way, are you referencing Larsen's Supreme after issue 63 on page 23?
Plus, love the tribute to the cover of "Superman" issue 423 on page 22.
On the page that quote was from, page 20, are you talking about the tropes that I've referred in the comment that I'm replying?
DeleteHey! Yes, the Mean Supreme reference was definitely referring to Larsen's Supreme which followed issue 63. The cop-out and shocking swerve were more an attempt to have "The End" be the end but also find a way for Supreme to still win in the end. I always liked the book of destiny from Judgment Day and thought it'd be fun to see what happened to it and the girl who found it. And finally, I wanted to bring the idea of the fans taking control of Supreme's destiny into the comic to sort of emphasize the idea '60s Supreme explains at the end that Supreme's adventures go on whenever anyone thinks about them because they're now ideas in idea space. Was that what you were asking?
DeleteExactly. Thanks for the reply.
DeleteThis fanatastic fan story was such Slamdunk Supreme! I must admit, I'm way too young to have been following Supreme since the beginning (I was 3 in 1996) I had to learn about the character and read his adventures retroactively. I've followed the character for over a decade now, and Supreme's been one of my favorite superhero comics ever since. Heck, there are parts of the original 40 issues I enjoyed! But sadly, I never got to see a real conclusion for the character until now. At first his comic just sort of ended with no resolution, and then as a serious gut-punch, it came back only to end on a maddening cliffhanger. Worse yet, when Larsen got a crack at it, he (in my humble and respectful opinion) struck out hard. Not only did his "Mean Supreme escapes!" concept not feel like a worthy successor to the Moore version, it didn't even ring true to the original Liefeld version. The first thing we see the original "Mean Supreme" do is refuse to join a government superweapons program out of moral disgust, and the last thing we saw him do was hug his daughter goodbye! Sure, he had an ego problem and delusions of granduer, but he wasn't a racist, psychathetic murderer who beat up innocent people. He was just a brooding 90s-anti hero. The way it literally destroys everything that came before it as quickly as possible also feelts wrong, downright spiteful.
ReplyDeleteWith all these problems, it isn't a wonder his version got cancelled prematurely with how it completely botched any potential the previous runs set up for it. I guess it's a bitter irony that his botched attempt at resolving one cliffhanger ended in another. Should Larsen get a chance to finish his run? Probably, but I doubt I'd bother reading it. I have my ending.
But I'm not here to hate on Larsen, he tried his best with the tools he had. And he was responsible for bringing characters like Mighty Man and Super Patriot to the fray, who I really liked. The truth is, anything not written by Moore was going to feel like fan fiction. Nothing "officially" released had the quality or consistency that would make a continuation feel true or earned. I guess that's why this "unofficial" ending rings more true and feels more real than anything Image, Maximum or Arcade put out to "finish" it. This is the true ending, always will be. The bits and pieces of original content brought in from Moore and Veitch only solidify that fact. The same talent, the same voices and inspiration that went into the original Moore run are all present in this. The fact that it's been acknowledged by several people in the industry as the real, better ending is no small part of that, either!
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I'm getting a little choked up. I didn't think I could be brought nearly to tears by a little fan edit of an indie comic that had so many production troubles. But here I am, smiling ear to ear and feeling my heart warm up. The story I loved and followed so eagerly finally has a real ending that actually feels like satisfying conclusion and ties up all the loose ends. The only thing that leaves me a bit unsatisfied is that The End didn't truly get "beaten." His big plan was a complete failure, sure, but he didn't really his comeuppence, just stopped existing.
DeleteBut just like 60s Supreme said, Dax, the End and all the other villains probably have their own version of the Supremacy. A nightmarish Tartarus where fiends and foes languish in a tormented, conflict-filled hell of their own design. You can just imagine The End finding himself in this new world, dropping to his knees and crying out in despair as he realizes the truth: that his plan failed, that he was not "the end" and there never truly will be one. That he'll continue to writhe in this awful world partially created by the terrible things he did, forced to live his worst fear: an endless existence. Poetry, baby! 'nuff said.
Well, not quite 'nuff said! You did an amazing job on all of this. You've made an emotionally fragile, conflicted comic nerd very, very happy! Truly, this is the real ending. The only kind of ending that could ever feel sincere, genuine: one created by people who loved the comic and the character. A toast to you, true believer! Thank you for this. May your days be long and bring you Satisfaction Supreme!
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DeleteWell that was ridiculously nice of you to say (though if you were 3 in 1996, that makes me {does math} really, really old).
I've tried to be sympathetic to Larsen's run, as I think there were some things I liked about it. But as you said, it was annoying how much it left open ended.
It's interesting that you've read all the prior Supremes and have a good grasp of the character. I was never able to get that far into it. If you're ever up for writing a/multiple blog post(s) about that run, it'd be awesome to add it to this blog as a resource. I get a lot of questions about that run and have almost no answers for people.
As for the fan edit. I think it has too much of Larsen's story still, but it was the best I could do at the time.
That's an excellent point about The End not finding out he failed, but I wasn't sure The End hadn't truly become a cosmic character like Jack O'Lantern. So he representing something far beyond being a normal villain.
Ultimately, I've come to love hearing about all the different endings fans have for Supreme. Moore wanted to use Supreme to encourage the imagination he had from reading Superman as a kid and I think the lack of an ending actually encouraged fans to use their imaginations in a way that would have made him smile (I hope so anyway).
Thanks again,
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Hey Mike! I'd absolutely love to do a write up (or several) about the original 90s Supreme! If I ever get the time, I'll send you my first write up and see what you think! Also, I totally agree about the imaginative endings. I think Moore would get a kick out of it.
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DeleteSounds awesome. The floor is yours if you want it.
Thanks,
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DeleteAll the things that King Supreme mentions to Supreme near the end of this ending are references to what was planned for Alan Moore's Supreme mythos, but never done, such as the new allies like a special appearance from Miracleman and the never-produced Awesome Comics version of Kingodm Come entitled, World War Infinity.
ReplyDeleteExactly. The concept was that those ideas still existed in Idea Space/the Supremacy whether the actual stories were ever printed or not. It's recognizing the power of imagination. Thanks!
DeleteThat's a good way to put it. And you're welcome.
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