As much as the Keeper would like to claim that he’s spent the past week enjoying the Northern California sun, the truth is that rampant fires throughout the region have made the air nearly unbreathable.
So, between pumping our asthma inhaler and tending to day to day life around the Fortress, we’ve had little time to think of comics.
Still … we did find the time to glance through our collection of Alan Moore Supreme comics - always a soothing salve for sagging spirits - and noted a sequence where the acclaimed writer’s world view encompassed a television show that starred our favorite celebrity crush - Friends.
Of course, Moore’s take on the show had a unique twist …
As you probably guessed from the above sequence, Fortress Fan, the brilliantly named Televillain had the power to alter the Boob Tube’s “virtual reality.” As Diana Dane- Supreme’s love interest - states so succinctly, “Monica Geller” was executed by the evil mastermind, not Courteney Cox herself.
*Whew*
Still, even in a comic-book universe, TV fans don’t like it when their favorite characters get whacked …
Good thing that mob never heard about what happened to Bobby Simone on NYPD Blue.
Panels taken from Supreme #56 and Supreme: The Return #1, story and art on both issues by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse.
Anyone else think the Televillain, with the antennae and the green dome head, looks a lot like as certain bug?
Those panels are hilarious. The Teen Titans television show invented a character sort of like the Televillain, though I’m totally blanking on his name now. He was basically just like the nerdiest sci-fi convention guy you’ve ever met who had a magic remote control or something. You know–it was the Teen Titans cartoon so it didn’t have to make any sense.
I’ve got a few issues of Alan Moore’s Supreme, but unfortunately, I didn’t even know he was writing it until he was almost finished. I loved the ones that I purchased, however, and I’ve always thought that’s one of his underrated works.
I think the fact that Alan Moore even has a sense of humor is something a lot of fans - and creators who try to ape the master - have sadly forgotten.