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Supreme #53
Sep. 24th, 2018 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Alan Moore: "After [my] 12th issue of Supreme, we'll drop all the back story, because we'll have established the past. From there, I'll be doing stories that draw upon that history; and I'd maybe like to have a go of that for another year. It depends. I'll see how many other books I do a couple issues of as a result of Judgment Day."
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Supreme #52b
Sep. 23rd, 2018 05:44 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "It seems to me the only thing that was ever really interesting about comics when I was a kid was the sense of wonder involved in it. The genuine imagination that had gone into them. You got people like Mort Weisinger, who takes a lot of stick and probably a lot of it is deserved. I'm sure he probably wasn't the nicest person to work with, but that world that he and the people under him created with the Superman of the '60s, it was a very personal one for him. Rick Veitch was telling me about a recent biography that he's read, or a book on the comic industry, that says that most of the stuff, the Bottle City of Kandor, the Phantom Zone, all of these classic '60s elements have got a lot to do with the elements that play a large part in Mort Weisinger's mental breakdown. That's how much of his imagination he was investing into it, and that was what fueled the magic of those comics for me when I was a kid."
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Supreme #52a
Sep. 22nd, 2018 10:13 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "What I'd like to do is try and infuse this new '90s model type super hero with all the imaginative power of the superheroes of the previous fifty years. To give it that sort of humor and grace and see if we can come up with some kind of composite that's viable for the next century."
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Supreme #51
Sep. 21st, 2018 07:48 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "What I've tried to do with Supreme is to not recapitulate what was done in the '50s or '60s. What I've tried to do is make Supreme a character that works across the ages. Also, I'm trying to make Supreme a character that's very much for the '90s. I'm trying to include all of the previous moments of the history of comics within the character. By the time we get to the 12th issue of the run [Supreme #52], which will hopefully be an 80-page giant, you'll be able to see the groundwork I've done over the previous 11 issues in a much clearer perspective. It will set up this rich background that the character will be able to draw upon in the future."
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Supreme #50
Sep. 20th, 2018 06:42 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "I see this as not being a retro book, not in the way 1963 was... I'm putting these flashbacks, these 8 page stories, 12 page stories, into the twelve issues of Supreme in order to create the illusion of a previously existing continuity. By the time I get to Supreme #52, in the ones that follow 52 I don't think there's going to be any flashback sequences. It's going to be entirely a modern day Image superhero comic that will have all that back history to call on. Now that means I would be able to do any story I want, it's the blend of old and modern. That's the interesting thing to me and I think Jim Lee just said some similar things: it's not the retro stuff, it's how the retro stuff is played up against the contemporary stuff."
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Supreme #49
Sep. 19th, 2018 10:04 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "What Marvelman was, he provides the technology to make this fantastic world real. We're not bothering with that, we're just going from the assumption that what they did in the comics in the '60s was real anyways. It's just a sort of world where there happen to be talking gorillas or what have you."
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Supreme: The New Adventures #48
Sep. 18th, 2018 05:52 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "When Supreme started to look like it would be a success, I was talking to [Extreme editor] Eric Stephenson about the book. I told him that with Supreme I was sort of going to be telling the history of the entire Extreme Universe. I'd be filling in lots of details about Extreme that didn't exist, and that if Rob [Liefeld] wanted me to, I could give him an all-new bible of continuity for a universe that might have more possibilities. I wasn't going to ignore the previous continuity, just augment it. These days it seems that most comic book continuities are put together by committee, or just by accident. It struck me that it might be an advantage to have one person put together a continuity, much in the way that Stan Lee put together the Marvel continuity back then."
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Supreme: The New Adventures #47
Sep. 17th, 2018 08:54 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "On one level [Supreme] is Superman and there is no point in denying that. At the same time it's not just Superman; there's lots of ideas in Supreme that never appeared in Superman that take you to different areas. To some degree I've tried to make an archetypal big-guy superhero in a cape, who stands up as well as Captain Marvel and all the others. To some degree that's what I want to do with all the characters. I want to make them archetypal, I want to give them the archetypal power that the best superheroes have."
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Supreme: The New Adventures #46
Sep. 16th, 2018 10:53 amlordultimus
Alan Moore: "Suprema has got a sort of Puritan arrogance. She's sort of like Nancy Drew with super powers or something. And, to her, if the rest the world has changed and she's remained the same, it's because the rest of the world is just wrong. She's the only yardstick that she measures it by. She sees everybody else as just -- they're impolite, they're ill-mannered, they're rude, they wear their skirts too short -- it's stuff that's shocking to her, and she refuses to go along with it. She treats everything as some sort of Girl Scout exercise with her in charge. Even if that's not the situation at all."
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Supreme: The New Adventures #45
Sep. 15th, 2018 12:19 pmlordultimus
Alan Moore: "It's something that's going on in their heads and not mine. I said that I would not work for DC Comics, and I said that I would never work for Marvel Comics; and I have never worked for either of those comic companies since. I don't know anyone who has barred themselves from working for the two biggest comic companies and has actually stuck to it. Image Comics has never screwed me, and I have nothing against working for popular comics. Otherwise I'd have never worked in American comics at all, would I? I just have moral qualms about working with DC or Marvel, so I just don’t do it. If others have problems working with Image, then I suggest not doing it."
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Supreme: The New Adventures #44
Sep. 14th, 2018 12:01 pmlordultimus
Alan Moore: "While doing Supreme, it occurred to me that what I've been doing was to go through the history, or pseudo-history, of a Superman-type character, from his origin in the '20s or '30s through to the present day. In the course of these stories, I was also showing some background that had previously never been seen of the Extreme Universe as it was during those decades. I had flushed out the group the Allies into a sort of '40s version called the Allied Supermen of America, which is a kind of All
Winners Squad/ JSA group of heroes. I mentioned to Eric Stephenson that if Rob wanted, in the course of Supreme, I could remodel the Extreme Universe and make it a much more coherent and dynamic kind of place."
Warning for racism and drug use.
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