Supreme #24
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSupreme #24 marks a pivotal moment of creative transition in Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios line, arriving as the first issue of writer Gary Carlson's new direction for the title after Kurt Hathaway's departure — a handoff that TV Tropes notes sent the series "in a completely different direction from #23 onwards." The issue introduces Chelsea Henry (later Lady Supreme), the future-born daughter of Supreme and Glory, who would go on to carry her own spin-off series and remain a fixture of the Extreme Universe continuity. It also debuts the corporate villain Dexter Cortex, whose Cor-Tek Industries serves as the primary antagonist engine for the Carlson run, along with the armored Japanese defense unit Zero Squadron — a cluster of new characters that briefly expanded the world of Supreme before Alan Moore's wholesale reimagining erased and superseded virtually all of them beginning with issue #41.
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Issue #24 was written by Gary Carlson, penciled by Cedric Nocon and Shannon Denton, inked by Norm Rapmund, lettered by Kurt Hathaway, and edited by Eric Stephenson — the same editorial hand who oversaw the title throughout its Extreme Studios / Image phase. Carlson's arrival replaced Hathaway as writer and represented a course correction for the book, abandoning plotlines Hathaway had seeded in the Supreme Madness arc (issues #13–18) in favor of a fresh storyline set largely in Tokyo. The cover was produced by Aron Lusen, Cedric Nocon, and Danny Miki.
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- First appearance of Chelsea Henry (Lady Supreme), the superpowered daughter of Supreme and Glory, born in the future and gifted with telepathic abilities.
- First appearance of Dexter Cortex (also spelled Dexter Cortez in some sources), CEO of Cor-Tek Industries and the primary villain of the Gary Carlson run; he disappears from the title entirely once Carlson's tenure ends.
- First appearance of Zero Squadron, Japan's armored state defense team under the corporate oversight of Cor-Tek Industries.
- First appearance of The Baptist (Anthony Bryce), a dark-magic cult leader who grants superhuman powers by supernaturally altering human hearts.
- First appearance of Cor-Tek Industries as an organization, and of the villain Blackheart.
- Written by Gary Carlson — whose takeover from Kurt Hathaway beginning with issue #23 represented a sharp editorial pivot away from previously established storylines.
- The issue is set primarily in Tokyo; Supreme arrives amnesiac, unable to remember his identity yet mysteriously able to speak Japanese, and is confronted by locals who hold Supreme responsible for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII.
- Chelsea Henry's character was later reimagined in Warren Ellis's Supreme: Blue Rose (2015) as a scientist named Chelsea Henry gifted with knowledge of time and space from the 30th Century — a version that shares her name but is otherwise distinct from the original Extreme Universe incarnation.
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