Source: 1st - Youngblood #3 (1992)
Type: Analog
When Supreme first appeared, there wasn't all that much linking him to Superman. He had that name, of course, and similar powers, and the fact very few concepts in the emerging Image universe were imbued with the quality we like to call "originality". But it really wasn't until Alan Moore took the reigns in 1996 that it became a metafictional riff on the Superman mythos. Suddenly, the Image universe of Surpreme had DC-like qualities. It had existed since the 30s and had been rebooted multiple times. There were various versions of Supreme out there, from other timelines and realities. Supreme got a super-sister (Suprema) and a super-dog (Radar), and his retired selves joined together into a Superman Squad called the Supremacy. Moore started giving Supreme flashbacks to earlier, untold adventures scripted and drawn in the style of past comic book eras, a device he'd touched on in his "1963" series (featuring a Marvelized 60s Image universe), and which would be imitated by others in such projects as Age of the Sentry and The Escapist. The most surprising thing is that Moore did it in a non-ironic way, allegedly as an apology for all the cynical deconstructionism he'd foisted on the industry. In so doing, he produced what is probably the only fondly remembered comic starring a Rob Liefled creation.
Moore fills the book to the brim with Silver Agey concepts, analogues and parallel Supremes, super-animals and continuity implants. Supreme could have had a pretty good run of Reign himself. I'll show my work:
The Supremacy
Suprema and Radar
Squeak the Supremouse
Sirius the Stallion Supreme
The Silver Age represented by Supreme White and Supreme Gold, and the 50s Supreme currently sporting a lion's head thanks to the effects of Violet Supremium
And the roll call continues...
There's Kid Supreme
And before that, there was SupreMite
Stupendo the Simian Supreme
The Mad parody, SupreMelvin
Shadow Supreme
Confederate Supreme
Even Szazs the Sprite Supreme
Because every hero should have a Bat-Mite/Mxyzptlk plaguing him.
And I'm leaving quite a few Supremes out too.
Type: Analog
When Supreme first appeared, there wasn't all that much linking him to Superman. He had that name, of course, and similar powers, and the fact very few concepts in the emerging Image universe were imbued with the quality we like to call "originality". But it really wasn't until Alan Moore took the reigns in 1996 that it became a metafictional riff on the Superman mythos. Suddenly, the Image universe of Surpreme had DC-like qualities. It had existed since the 30s and had been rebooted multiple times. There were various versions of Supreme out there, from other timelines and realities. Supreme got a super-sister (Suprema) and a super-dog (Radar), and his retired selves joined together into a Superman Squad called the Supremacy. Moore started giving Supreme flashbacks to earlier, untold adventures scripted and drawn in the style of past comic book eras, a device he'd touched on in his "1963" series (featuring a Marvelized 60s Image universe), and which would be imitated by others in such projects as Age of the Sentry and The Escapist. The most surprising thing is that Moore did it in a non-ironic way, allegedly as an apology for all the cynical deconstructionism he'd foisted on the industry. In so doing, he produced what is probably the only fondly remembered comic starring a Rob Liefled creation.Moore fills the book to the brim with Silver Agey concepts, analogues and parallel Supremes, super-animals and continuity implants. Supreme could have had a pretty good run of Reign himself. I'll show my work:
The Supremacy
Suprema and Radar
Squeak the Supremouse
Sirius the Stallion Supreme
The Silver Age represented by Supreme White and Supreme Gold, and the 50s Supreme currently sporting a lion's head thanks to the effects of Violet Supremium
And the roll call continues...
There's Kid Supreme
And before that, there was SupreMite
Stupendo the Simian Supreme
The Mad parody, SupreMelvin
Shadow Supreme
Confederate Supreme
Even Szazs the Sprite Supreme
Because every hero should have a Bat-Mite/Mxyzptlk plaguing him.And I'm leaving quite a few Supremes out too.
Comments
Hey, Cable and Deadpool have their fans...as does Moore's Youngblood.