Who should take over Supreme now?

[chastmastr]

Oh my! I must obtain this!

Erik, do you autograph stuff from the Savage Dragon store?

[Erik Larsen]

Do you know when more Supreme might be coming out? (Again, thank you for addressing that worry of mine!)

Also, I think you should do a Superman story for Adventures of Superman. :)

I already did! I drew Adventures of Superman #431. Does that count?

[Erik Larsen]

Erik, do you autograph stuff from the Savage Dragon store?

I don't. It's in Washington state. I'm in California.

[chastmastr]

I already did! I drew Adventures of Superman #431. Does that count?

OMG! I remember that one AND WONDERED WHEN HE'D EVER COME BACK!! I kept thinking he'd show up any time and he just never got referred to again. Speaking of stories that never got resolved...

I actually thought that he might show up in War of the Gods but he didn't. :( He should have, darn it...

("He" refers to Doctor Stratos, who kind of had an apotheosis at the end of the issue and then never appeared again.)

[chastmastr]

(Can you tell us anything about how the 1963 annual was going to go, Erik? If not, I understand, it might be proprietary info or something.)

[Erik Larsen]

(Can you tell us anything about how the 1963 annual was going to go, Erik? If not, I understand, it might be proprietary info or something.)

I don't have a copy of the plot and I don't recall it clearly enough to do it justice. I do recall Alan sketching out some pages to show what he meant but I just skimmed it.

[chastmastr]

Someday I hope we will know what was supposed to happen... sigh.

Hey, if Miracleman can be coming back after all these years, anything can happen!

(Maybe Neil could persuade Alan to sell him the rights?)

[thetrellan]

For me it was Moore as the only reason I cared about Supreme at all. What I'd seen of the earlier material put me completely off, but I felt that Moore took a sow's ear and made a silk purse out of it.

Maybe Moore could fix DC's New 52...

While normally I love Moore's work, he chose to make Supreme into a campy satire of Superman and I found it unreadable. It's funny because he wrote some of the best pre-COIE Superman stuff, if not the best. I regard his Supreme as an experiment which hit the mark with many, though.

So tell me: What was it you liked about his Supreme? Because I still don't get it.

[Dark-Flux]

Kinda cos of what you mentioned. It was a love letter to Silver-age Superman.

[chastmastr]

Kinda cos of what you mentioned. It was a love letter to Silver-age Superman.

And Golden and Bronze and so on... :)

It also was a sort of meta-commentary on comics history, cultural stuff and the like, even with the public service ads ("Flashlight Battery Replacement Day!").

Some of it was also a bit deeper, like the story with the League of Infinity and Young Wild Bill Hickock. Not on as deep or complex or profound a level as, say, Promethea, but still very good.

Even little throwaway lines had that Moore magic to them, like the "imaginary angel" who sees the world of matter as less real than her own.

[thetrellan]

Kinda cos of what you mentioned. It was a love letter to Silver-age Superman.

But he went too far, made it everything I always hated about Superman in the 60s and 70s. It wasn't even witty or tongue-in-cheek, just a copy of how Superman used to be written. It sucked.

[Erik Larsen]

But he went too far, made it everything I always hated about Superman in the 60s and 70s. It wasn't even witty or tongue-in-cheek, just a copy of how Superman used to be written. It sucked.

That's hardly fair. While the flashbacks were very much a pastiche the stories set in the present weren't really that at all.

[chastmastr]

And I liked the 1970s Superman quite a lot, myself... :)

By the way, only thematically related, but what I've seen of the new classic-style done-in-one Adventures of Superman looks fantastic.