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rebus's review
4.0
An excellent conclusion to this short-lived series, in which Moore pays tribute to everything from Kirby to McFarlane and all points in between, conjuring up versions of old characters I'd read and long forgotten. My only quibble is that I never liked Kirby's art at all and found his stories and characters to be silly at best, far too derivative of ancient mythology and adhering to a pro-war technocracy view of the world (Kirby was NOT a genius). Moore, via a depiction of Kirby as pure imagination, asserts that physical stuff doesn't matter and that it is ideas that live on, a view I couldn't disagree with more, as most 'ideas' from the 'realm of imagination' are just the same tired rehash and reinventions of old concepts (I would also never trust a smoker like Kirby, especially since his choice was cigars, and Moore is reputed to be a several pack per day guy, which makes me ponder just how great he might have been if that weren't the case).
The remarkable thing about the entire series is that, though another rehash of old ideas, Moore does imbue it with a new and modern life of its own and discards the silly and wrong science of previous decades of comic history as continuity errors or imaginary tales. He expresses love for and dismisses the past in one fell swoop, and I agree whole heartedly with that.
The remarkable thing about the entire series is that, though another rehash of old ideas, Moore does imbue it with a new and modern life of its own and discards the silly and wrong science of previous decades of comic history as continuity errors or imaginary tales. He expresses love for and dismisses the past in one fell swoop, and I agree whole heartedly with that.
drtlovesbooks's review
3.0
I really like Alan Moore's work,and this is a fun piece where he's enjoying taking apart the Superman mythos and playing around with it. Each episode of Supreme tackles a different element of the weirdness of Superman's background and really highlights it. For people who know their comic book history, this is a delightful, reference-filled romp.
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