Supreme: Blue Rose

author: Warren Ellis
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/09/20
date added: 2015/09/20
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Supreme: Blue Rose' by Warren Ellis and art by Tula Lotay collects the first 7 issues of the character reboot of the Image Comics character Supreme. I'm familiar with this character, and this, at least so far, is a pretty drastic departure.

This is a high concept SF story about undulating timelines. There are some recurring characters or different versions of those characters. It's hard to stay locked on to the story, but I think it's worth it. The character trying to figure out what is going on is Diana Dane, a reported hired to find out what happened to a town called Littlehaven and who or what is "Supreme." That she's hired by Darius Dax (and told at numerous times not to trust him) is ominous. Also ominous are the strange resets that time seems to take. The blue roses in the title refer to a pattern in background radiation which seems to deal with the timestream. Just to keep you further off your feet, there is a television series in the book called Professor Night that keeps showing up with what looks like ads, but might actually be clues.

Supreme has had an odd history, so having a book about multiple timestreams that reset themselves seems to be an interesting way to kind of reconcile Supreme's past. I really liked the artwork in this book and Warren Ellis' writing is topnotch. It's a strange series, but I quite liked it.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Image Comics, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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