As you may remember, Supreme: The Return issue 2 was kind of a mess. The lettering was off in a number of places, the colors were dark and muddy, and they even forgot to put "The Return" on the cover. But if there's one part that has always bothered me, it's why were the last two pages clearly not Starlin's work and clearly (bad) copies of Sprouse's work?
For years, I've been blaming Rob Liefeld. But it looks like I owe him an apology... sort of.
My friend Doyle ran into Jim Starlin at a convention and asked him about the pages and whether he ever drew his own versions. Here's what he said:
Starlin says that they hadn't paid him for the Supreme pages he did (and maybe they had lost the script, that was unclear) so he scanned in some Sprouse art and turned that in.So, it turns out that Starlin was the one who gave us this mess. Thanks, Jim!
