Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #28

 

Supreme issue 28 came out in May 1995. Gary Carlson was the writer. Penciled by Joe Bennett. Inked by Norm Rapmund. Lettered and associate editored by Kurt Hathaway. There's also a variant cover by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti.

Picking right up from the last issue, Amnesia Supreme rushes Original Kid Supreme to the hospital for his heart attack. The hospital staff is too busy to help Amnesia Supreme's friend, so he sets the nurse's desk on fire and uses his vision rays to cut out the cancer cells in another patient, to free up a doctor. 

 

The doctor tells him Original Kid Supreme is in rough shape, so Amnesia Supreme tells him to try to keep him alive long enough to get help from the one person who might be able to help... New Kid Supreme. He finds New Kid Supreme on the Washington Monument and guilts him into helping Original Kid Supreme.

Meanwhile, at Cor-Tek HQ, a scientist is overseeing the transfer of Dexter Cortex's personality from a computer into the brain of a lobotomized man. However, once he's in, he complains of pain and the body bleeds out. Dexter and the scientist agree that he needs a body that is either super strong or can regenerate.

Cut to the hospital, where Glory randomly shows up to see Original Kid Supreme. She's also shocked to see Amnesia Supreme, who she immediately recognizes as Supreme. He explains about the amnesia and she says that the man she loved has been gone for a long time.

 

Okay, hold up. I've read all of Supreme and Glory Days and while they've said that Supreme and Glory were a thing, we've never actually seen it. Supreme has pretty much always been a jerk. This is such a weird comic.

A doctor shows up to take over the case and we find out he's the Baptist. He turns Original Kid Supreme into Blackthornn (the extra N is for naughty) when New Kid Supreme shows up. Baptist has two Blackheart creatures fight him. As they fight, Glory and Amnesia Supreme join the brawl.

 

While Glory and Amnesia Supreme fight the Blackhearts, New Kid Supreme tries to get Original Kid Supreme to reject the Baptist. Original Kid Supreme, in a daze, thinks Kid Supreme is Real Supreme, takes a portion of New Kid Supreme's powers and fights back against the Baptist. 

The Baptist transports away and everyone just laughs about how Original Kid Supreme used to use his x-ray vision to check out Glory back in the WWII days. 

 

 

What better way to end a story than by laughing at inappropriate voyeurism! Ha ha!