Next up on the list is a character I know little about:
Supreme. He was created by everyone’s favorite 90’s whipping boy, Rob Liefeld.
He first appeared in Youngblood and then got spun off into his own title. From
what I’ve read online, he had the powers of Superman but not the morality. He
wasn’t a bad guy but he was willing to have blood on his hands. His origins were also pretty incoherent. The
guy even went up against Thor and Loki… no, not Marvel’s Thor and Loki. This
Thor actually had red hair but no beard.
Somehow, Liefeld was able to get Alan Moore, the bearded
dude himself, to come write on the book. Apparently, Moore’s only condition was
that he could pretty much ignore what came before with the character. From what
I’ve seen online and actually read with those early issues, I can’t blame him.
The ones I read (look, they were cheap) weren’t horrible but they weren’t any
good either. Supreme #41 was published by Maximum Press aka Awesome Comics and released in 1996. All
I know is that Liefeld was over that thing. Moore wrote the issue. Joe Bennett
provided the main pencils and Norm Rapmund provided the main inks. There are
also some pencils and inks done by Keith Giffen and Al Gordon. I’ll list the
rest below.
Supreme #41
Writer: Alan Moore
Pencils: Joe Bennett and Keith Giffen
Inks: Norm Rapmund and Al Gordon
Colors: Reuben Rude
Letters: Todd Klein
Editorial Assistant: Brent Braun
Editor: Eric Stephenson