Supreme issue 26 came out in March 1995. Gary Carlson was the writer. Penciled by Joe Bennett. Inked by Norm Rapmund. Lettered and associate editored by Kurt Hathaway.
After that weird segway into the past, we're back to our regular Supreme storyline. Well, as regular as it can be when we're dealing with Amnesia Supreme in Japan.
We start the issue with Dexter Cortex, the Predator looking guy from last issue who enjoys terminating his employees a little too mush. He's in the process of hiring a new President for his company and talking about informing the Japanese Prime Minister of Supreme's presence in the city.
There's this weird premise that the Japanese hate Supreme personally for dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan during WWII, which I'm not sure would have been a thing in 1990s Tokyo. My understanding was that Japan and the U.S. had established a true peaceful partnership and friendship. So this idea that he would be solely hated just feels like a not very well thought through concept. But this is Extreme, so maybe I'm expecting too much.
Amnesia Supreme is grappling with the idea that he is Supreme, which he doubts, since real Supreme died and Amnesia Supreme looks a lot younger, has dark hair and a slightly different costume.
Some random citizens start throwing things and calling him "baby killer."
As he's about to leave, he sees a child falling from a rooftop. He goes to rescue it and it's a robot that explodes.
The mob below thinks he blew up the child and proceed to beat him up. Cor-Tek then get the unconscious Amnesia Supreme and bring him in.
Amnesia Supreme is in a dream, moving toward the light. Is he dead? Sadly, no. He wakes up and Cortex says he was monitoring his dreams and he had the same dream five times in a row.
Amnesia Supreme agrees to allow Cortex to try to access his memories, and we see Supreme's origin yet again. Cortex gives Amnesia Supreme the address of Kid Supreme in Washington, DC.
As Amnesia Supreme flies off, Cortex reveals that none of the tests on Amnesia Supreme match Real Supreme. And for some reason that makes no sense, that convinces Cortex that Amnesia Supreme is the real Supreme. Because apparently he read Maxine's files from Legend of Supreme. Ok? You know what... it doesn't matter. Moving on.
Meanwhile, at some mansion in Rhode Island, a pregnant lady is saying that she's going into labor after only six weeks after insemination. It turns out the doctor is the Baptist and the child is the son of Darkthorn. Honestly, this cult stuff doesn't matter either.
Back to Amnesia Supreme, who is flying through Washington, DC when Kid Supreme shows up and hits him.
Ah, here's the bread and butter Supreme storytelling we've come to know and... well, we've come to know. Kid Supreme has decided Amnesia Supreme is a phony and that if real Supreme is dead, Kid Supreme wants to be called Supreme.
Amnesia Supreme knocks the fight out of Kid Supreme, but then gets confused, as this isn't the Kid Supreme he was looking for. Charles Flanders shows up and admits that he was the original Kid Supreme.
Hey, an old plot point the series never dealt with and is now filling in some backstory. Good job comic creators, doing barely above minimum expectations!
