ALEX ROSS's POSTER SUPREME
Alex Ross's sensational Supreme poster. Many of the Supremes shown here are from the comics, while many are Ross's own creations! (1997)
The following is clipped from an article that was outlining the (at that time) unpublished issues of Supreme. It contains an appreciation from Moore of Alex's work on this poster and its pure creativity.
Issue 63: The Clash of the Supremacies, Part One Diana Dane, having visited
the Supremacy, has realized the Supremacy works just like comicbook
continuity. So she has a wonderful idea: Omniman, the hero she writes about in
the comics, will go to the Omnigarchy and meet all the old Omnimen.
The comic is published to great acclaim. Darius Dax buys a copy, and realizes
that this is too close a coincidence. This has been written with inside info
from Supreme! From that, he deduces the existence of the Supremacy, the
counterpart to Daxia.
Dax goes back to Daxia, tells them there's a Supremacy, and they all decide to
attack Earth to lure the Supremacy all into the open, where they can finish
them once and for all …
Issue 64: The Clash of the Supremacies, Part Two "My 24th issue of Supreme,"
Moore said proudly, "would have been a huge battle with all the Supremes vs.
all the Daxes, taking place on Earth but spilling over into the Supremacy and
Daxia. A big, Kirbyesque war of the worlds; that might have been the one where
we used Alex Ross' beautiful painted cover showing all the Supremes, including
ones I hadn't invented yet when I saw it."
"And that would have been it," he says. But by then, it would be the middle
of 1999, and doubtless he'd have thought of something else …
And in another world, he probably has.