Supreme issue 27 came out in April 1995. Gary Carlson was the writer. Penciled by Joe Bennett. Inked by Norm Rapmund. Lettered and associate editored by Kurt Hathaway.
We start the issue with Amnesia Supreme and New Kid Supreme watching Original Flavor Kid Supreme's home movies of Real Supreme dropping the atomic bombs on Japan.
Back with Original Kid Supreme, Amnesia Supreme learns a bit more about Louise Masters and Bobby Nelson, two of Supreme's friends who got killed by Grizlock after Supreme left Earth. Original Kid Supreme makes a remark about how he sometimes wished he was a girl so Supreme liked him the way he liked Glory and Louise. But Amnesia Supreme decides to avoid that conversation.
He asks about how Original Kid Supreme was able to borrow power from Supreme and they try to do it again, but no luck, leaving Original Kid Supreme feeling angry and forlorn. He never married (shocker) and became a comic writer for Supreme comics. But when Supreme returned and licensed the comic to a new publisher (how did we not get that story?), Original Kid Supreme was fired.
Then New Kid Supreme shows up, cold and nearly comatose. Amnesia Supreme flies off to find out what happened and when Original Kid Supreme touches New Kid Supreme, he is able to access the power he couldn't from Amnesia Supreme.
That's when Blackheart shows up and promises to give to Original Kid Supreme his heart's desire, to be bigger, better and badder than Supreme. He then finds Amnesia Supreme and they start fighting, because Original Kid Supreme wants to be the only Supreme.
New Kid Supreme wakes up, bound and without powers.
As the fight is going on, Blackheart reaches into Amnesia Supreme and offers to tell him who he really is. But instead, Amnesia Supreme reaches into Blackheart and rips out his heart before smashing it.
New Kid Supreme can now take back his powers and Original Kid Supreme loses all of his and starts falling from where he was flying. But New Kid Supreme finds him and realizes he's having a heart attack and takes him to the hospital while the remains of Blackheart turn into dust.
It's kind of funny to see the first Supreme with the triangle logo as opposed to the square or trapezoid one. Not surprising it's from a design by Joe Bennett, who will do a redesign on Supreme for Moore's run.
Carlson's run as writer has been vaguely interesting so far, though I'm not sure I'd call it a great improvement over Hathaway's. Amnesia Supreme isn't really all that interesting and the mystery of is he or isn't he the true Supreme is only vaguely compelling. That said, I do appreciate him picking up on some of the dangling threads of Supreme's past.
Only thirteen(ish) issues left.
