Power Surpreme

The August issue focused on Power Supreme, a character that has been in the book since issue 9 and I figured it was time to reveal his origin.  I had several subplots running through the book, but then having to take so much time off of the book due to injury, I wanted to wrap those up and move forward with new stories.

In the books right now, the heroes are fighting the Worioggs, an invasive species.  Before my time away from the books, this is the storyline that I was working towards and had always planned to do Power Supreme's origin during this story.

For the creation of the character, like most all of my characters, I had created him years ago.  I don't know if you've ever read the classic Legion of Super-Hero comics from when they were first coming onto the scene, but in those early issues it wasn't like the comics of today where a character is introduced and onboarded onto the team.  Back then they would do a group shot and there would just be new heroes there and they would explain later how they got there (sometimes much later).  That was kind of how I did my comic originally.  

When I was first creating these characters, for about 11 years starting when I was in fifth grade, I never really did any stories about how they got on the team; I just created them and started drawing them with the team and that was it.  It wasn't until I started to prepare for this series a few years ago that I realized that I need to address this.  Actually, to this day I don't usually put a lot of detail into it, by that I mean I just kind of move things along and get them onto the team, which is why I created the plot device of Diodarius showing Titan who would play a role in the team so they can join quickly.  I'm dealing with such a large cast of characters, I really just can't take the time to show each one building trust with the team, that would get very boring and redundant.

Also back at that time, I wasn't always creating origins either.  I created half of the origins and the other half I hadn't bothered to.  Power Supreme was one of them.  The inspiration for the character came from an old red shirt that was handed down to me from my father and I just wore it around the house, it was well worn and broken in and on me it was much larger and yeah, that's it; that's the entirety of how I created the character. 

I originally called him Power Plus and he had a purple mask, but when I was prepping the series, I changed the name, ditched the mask and created an origin story for him and here we are!  I thought I would share here the first time I ever drew the character: