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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-21 22:37:00

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char: supreme, creator: alan moore, creator: chris sprouse, publisher: awesome entertainment, title: supreme

Supreme 55: "Possibly The Most Controversial Story You'll Read All Year!" (in 1997)

One morning, Supreme notices that the world seems to be somewhat different this day...

Their flagship character, as it turns out, is a white-hooded character called the Klansman.

Supreme (who notices that people are calling him the Supremacist) travels outside of time to investigate what's going on. There, he bumps into his centuries-spanning teammates in the League of Infinity.

Basically, Bill Hickock fell in love with a Southern woman named Jessie Hazel. After she rejected him, he tried to prove his love by altering history so that the South won the Civil War.

That's League of Infinity member Achilles in the final panel background above. One thing I could never figure out: Where did the gun come from? The team's period clothes are a magical illusion Witch Woman conjured up.

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nezchan
2009-07-22 07:05 pm UTC (link)

Maybe so, but a story like that depends on its variables doesn't it? There's a lot you can change that would either increase the robber-barons' hold (maybe leading to open revolt?) or prevent it from happening in the first place, or direct it in a different way. The way the history runs from an event could be quite interesting, and I'd say that, say, continued slavery in the way the above comic puts it is one of the least interesting results you could come up with.

Still, the idea of a strongly bigoted villain coming up with an utterly unexpected and (to them) unpalatable result to their time meddling, such as colour no longer being an issue but some different prejudice taking its place, remains an interesting one.

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