SUPREME #63

Review by: akamuu

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Story by Alan Moore
Art by Erik Larsen & Cory Hamscher
Cover by Erik Larsen

Size: 0 pages
Price: 2.99

Confession time: I haven’t read a single issue of Alan Moore’s Supreme. This issue doesn’t make me wish I had.

It’s meta. Oh so very meta. And maybe that would have been awesome if it came out when Alan Moore originally wrote it, but it seems tired and derivative now. There’s even a panel that says “It’s like…I dunno…The comic is talking about itself. That could get complicated.”

Not complicated. Annoying.

The description of this comic says “ALAN MOORE’s final SUPREME tale is the ultimate jumping on point for new readers!”

I disagree. It’s convoluted and gimmicky, and filled with characters it seems to assume I already know and care about.

It’s possible that this issue wasn’t published already for a reason, and that Supreme would have been better off left dormant. But this issue didn’t inspire me to go back and verify that it was ever any better.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 3 - Good
 

Comments

  1. flapjaxx says:
    April 4, 2012 at 1:48 am

    You owe it to yourself to go back and read those older issues. It did get very “meta”, and I think in a lot of the nostaliga-oriented “meta” we’ve seen in the last 15 years can be traced back to Alan Moore’s Supreme.

    That said, I can totally understand why you wouldn’t like this issue if you just jumped into things here. The run definitely was building up towards this, getting more abstract as it went.

    The reason why it wasn’t published, though? Because Liefeld’s company folded. The issue existed in script form but no one ever drew it until now.

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