Let's Read Let us read something... Supreme

[Quetzacoatl]

So, moar or not?

Moar! The dissenters just haven't read golden or silver age comics.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Alrighty, I'll poast before I head to bed.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[Rod Rodderson]

Moar! The dissenters just haven't read golden or silver age comics.

Neither have I, and I liked it. I imagine one's attitude going into it is important, though.

Edit: Well, this is an awkward place to end up.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Moar! The dissenters just haven't read golden or silver age comics.

Neither have I, and I liked it. I imagine one's attitude going into it is important, though.

Edit: Well, this is an awkward place to end up.

It is. Time for some backstory behind this series:

During the Dark Age, in the wake of Youngblood, Rob Liefeld made a shitty, derivative Superman type character named Supreme, meaning he had the powers but was violent, psychotic and could only communicate in grimaces. When Liefeld founded Maximum Press, he managed to get Alan Moore to write Supreme. Moore had one special condition on his tenure (which would last until the final issue of Supreme ever): He could do whatever the fuck he wanted, with complete disregard to prior continuity, and no one could bitch about what he was gonna do because he'd have total creative control over the series. Liefeld agreed.

So then Moore rounded up Rick Veitch as the only regular artist (until he got a then young newcomer by the name of Chris Sprouse as the regular modern day page artist), and revamped Supreme as a farewell love letter to the superhero comics he grew up reading: Superman, the Silver Age, and the classic DCU. And a formal apology for causing the Dark Age, as he insisted he did.

Basically, Alan Moore loves superheroes, and skillfully murdered them in the 80's with Miracleman and Watchmen. And then continued to write about them. So the real question is: Is it necrophilia?


And in case you were wondering, the sharp contrast in the quality of the present day art and flashback art was a calculated move by Moore. Until Sprouse, he often got crappy, inconsistent Liefeld-era artists precisely to hammer home the point that 90's art looked like ass.

EDIT: And as you can probably guess, Billy Friday is part Jimmy Olsen, part self-parody of Alan Moore himself.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

What's Mr. Majestic doing in this comic? And why is his hair white?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Actually, I think Supreme was a Superman knockoff that predates Mr Majestic.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Bros, you want moar or not?

 

[abnaxus]

Fuck yeah, since Glory showed up.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Fuck yeah, since Glory showed up.

You think Moore could do a tribute to the DC Universe without having a WONDA WOMAAN expy around?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Ey where da white women bumps at?

 

[abnaxus]

Ey where da white women bumps at?

 

[laclongquan]

Teh art... it burnsssssss.

No ass, no tit worth speaking off.

His costume allow for a decent eye-hurting bulge. No bulge ===> he's a pencil dick or eunuch or something?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

His costume allow for a decent eye-hurting bulge. No bulge ===> he's a pencil dick or eunuch or something?

The same thought was the subject of a really old MAD magazine joke, IIRC.

 

[Teepo]

I thought you were going to post Squadron Supreme.

Which is more supreme. Just about how Russia is more supreme then Finnland YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[abnaxus]

Wheres mah update

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Next page.

 

[laclongquan]

Those damn heroines... where are their bumps, anyway?

 

[Brother None]

This one does push it a bit on the self-referential front. Very much so targeted almost exclusively to comic book aficionados, and thus hard to get into for the rest of us. It doesn't help when it includes "art" like http://i.imgur.com/ULNr1.jpg

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

This one does push it a bit on the self-referential front. Very much so targeted almost exclusively to comic book aficionados, and thus hard to get into for the rest of us. It doesn't help when it includes "art" like http://i.imgur.com/ULNr1.jpg

Like I said, that's intentional on Moore's part, to create a contrast to the better art of ye olde comics mimicked by Rick Veitch.

 

[Random]

Bump for moar

 

[laclongquan]

FFS!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I have a dream, that one day Playground threads will have ten posts per page once more.