His posture suggests that he is leaping rather than flying under his own power we will learn later that Original Supreme, like Superman in his early adventures, cannot fly. In addition to Son of Supreme and Sister Supreme, we also see Original Supreme, described later in this issue as the first version of Supreme to come into existence (and thus an analog of the early “Golden Age” Superman). T, known for his roles in the film 'Rocky III' (in which the catchphrase originated) and the TV series 'The A-Team'. 'I pity the fool' is a catchphrase of African-American tough-guy actor Mr. (Oh, and to Captain Marvel over at Marvel, who was a black woman, when the character name formerly belonged to a white man.) She could be an homage, in part, to the Lois Lane 'I Am Curious Black' thing, and the whole 'relevance' period in '70s DC comics in general. Sister Supreme, with her Afro and dialog style, is reminiscent of seventies “blaxploitation” characters like Foxy Brown (played by actress Pam Grier) and of Marvel’s Luke Cage. It is worth noting that in the early eighties Marvel Comics introduced a black female Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), who later became a member of the Avengers. Superman had many futuristic counterparts, although there was not a black version of Superman until the introduction of John Henry Irons (Steel) in 1993's “Reign of the Supermen” storyline. Superion’s visor and his reference on page 3 to “the text display on hyper-visor” suggest that he is a high-tech futuristic version of Supreme.

: Here we see Superion (left) and Sister Supreme (right) in full view. Christmas!” is reminiscent of the favorite phrase of Marvel’s seventies hero Luke Cage (the Hero for Hire, later known as Power Man): “Sweet Christmas!” Sister Supreme’s exclamation, “Jeepers H. : This is the first glimpse of two of the many alternate Supremes that we will shortly meet, Sister Supreme and Superion.

Supreme did not have this power prior to this issue. This is another name for microscopic vision, a sensory power Superman first used in Action Comics #24 (1940) that allows him to see objects smaller than are visible through the most powerful microscopes. : Supreme uses his “micro-sight” for the first time. He sees the planet as two overlapping images, “like a double-exposed photograph.” This image, along with the ghostly shadows of the people and cars on the street (superimposing images of “who they are and who they might have been”) on pages 2 and 3, is strongly reminiscent of the early stages of DC’s 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, in particular Crisis on Infinite Earths #4-#5, when several alternate worlds began to overlap. Ii) 'proudly presented by' smacks of the 'Stan Lee Proudly Presents' label used by all Marvels for decades I) layout seems 1960's-ish to me, but I can't quote any actual example Ii) various 1940's and 1950's DC comics for the 'Complete in this issue. I) SUPERMAN (1st series) # 1 for the pose and backdrop Holmes, Jim Allan, Paul Andinach, Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, Bryant Durrell, Scott Hollifield, Robert Hughes, Sean Med and Thad Doria. If anyone has a problem with me including these here, let me know and I'll remove them. If you're not on this list, but should be, let me know: Aaron Severson, Eamonn Clarke, Matt They were created by several people, who I would like to make sure get The annotations linked to from this page come from. You'll find the lost Youngbloods in the Youngblood section and the fan-edit of the last Supreme in After Awesome.īelow is the archive of posts broken up by book. I followed that up with a couple of other posts about topics from that Weekly Reading or whatever else I came up with to talk about. Over the course of a year, I put it all together here.Įach week I did a main 'Weekly Reading' post that was a read-through of that issue. Having gathered quite a bit of information about Moore's Supreme and Awesome runs, I decided to create a home for the forgotten Awesome. And then it all went out of print and was forgotten by way too many. And it led to an award-winning run of comics, three additional titles (among several proposed) and ultimately led to the genesis of Moore's much better known America's Best Comics. He would radically reshape the character, the book, and due to forces beyond his control, a whole comic book universe. So a long time ago (the mid-1990s), the greatest writer in comics agreed to take over the writing duties for Image Comics' Supreme.

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