TS: 1963 vs. Supreme (& sundry Awesome Universe titles)

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that's right: which Alan Moore non-sadface meta-fest is best?

1963 has uninterrupted Veitch homages, the letters pages, Al's Stan parodies, etc, etc…

Supreme has Veitch 50s/60s/Neal Adams homages contrasted with '90s Liefieldiana, and what?

on your marks…

( I love the phrase sadface—did you guys come up with it?)

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

(God help us, I think we did! I blame Huk.)

I've never actually read AM's Supreme, but my tastes skew more towards primo Silver Age angsty pants than mid-50s Superman shenanigans, so 1963 is the one for me, effendi!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

(according to the search function, the first use of sadface was Oct. 7, 2005, which doesn't seem right, surely we've been using it longer, tho maybe "sad-face"?)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Even with the shit house-artists, Supreme wins in an easy lope (the Skroce Youngblood gets big points too, but the fake Scroce and Glory lose lots).

(And David, Supreme is 10000% Silver Age!)

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

That's impossible!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

well, Supreme sure ain't angsty-pants Silver age—which translates to Marvel. it's the Weisinger-Schwartz silver age, which ain't angsty no-how.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

(My "impossible" comment was re: kit's math, FWIW. Because I'm a smart ass.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I was using SILVER AGE SCIENCE

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I've read all of 1963, it was complete genius.

On the other hand, the one episode of Supreme I read was COMPLETE RUBBISH. So 1963 wins.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 12 February 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

are you sure the Supreme issue you read was written by Alan Moore? cuz before he got onboard, it was just Liefield, and thus was rubbish.

just asking…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I say 1963 because it was firster. When it was hitting the stands back in 1993, and it occurred to me that the final issue would hit in November, almost exactly 30 years after the JFK assassination, I figured that was going to be the big event that shook up the 1963 universe. Of course, it was referenced in the 1963 1/2 crossover panel, but nothing serious came of it. I'd really love to see that 1963 1/2 comic, though.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 13 February 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

are you sure the Supreme issue you read was written by Alan Moore?

Alan Moore, yes. I saw it, saw it was written by Alan Moore, saw it was about an ALTERNATE WORLD where the Confederates had won the Civil War, and then I read it.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

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