The character receives a comprehensive treatment in The Legend of Supreme, a three-issue miniseries by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming.

In prison, the government offered him a chance to participate in a human-improvement experiment in the hope that (unlike the six previous guinea pigs) he would survive.

After the war, Supreme believed that he had done his part as a good Samaritan and left Earth; in reality, Father Beam's accidental death at his hands drove him away.

[1] Moore's approach drew on his fondness for the innovative and self-contained and clichéd storytelling found in editor Mort Weisinger's Silver Age Superman stories.

Moore said in later interviews that his re-imagining of Supreme's background and origin was partly an apology for the darkness of his previous works at other publishers; he had a reputation for the cynical deconstruction of superheroes based on Batman: The Killing Joke, Swamp Thing, and Watchmen.

[1] Given free rein over Supreme and the wider Maximum (later Awesome) universe, Moore created a storyline to both entirely reinvent the character's world, and meld it with Liefeld's extant continuity.

The new version of Supreme has a secret identity as Ethan Crane, a mild-mannered artist for Dazzle Comics whose powers are a result of a childhood exposure to a meteorite made of Supremium, an element which can alter reality.

After experiencing amnesia, Supreme's returning memories are told on the page in flashback form revising and ret-conning the character's complex and oft-rewritten backstory, often in pastiche style evoking different periods of comics history.

According to Liefeld, the storytelling methods and styles Moore honed on Supreme directly informed his subsequent America's Best Comics title Tom Strong.

"[1] After Darius Dax is defeated, Supreme finds an ember of Judy Jordan's consciousness in her body and transfers it to a Suprematon android.

Erik Larsen wrote and drew Supreme for five issues (#64–68), seeing Moore's work on the title purged and Liefield's early-1990s version of the character restored.

On the letter page of his first issue, Larsen wrote, "My thought was to marry the two and take what Alan had done and what came before and try to find something in the middle which might appeal to both audiences.".

Ethan Crane learns that his alter ego's life is gone in the reboot; he cannot find work as a comic-book artist because his talent came from his Supreme power.

The character was revived again in 2015 in a seven-issue miniseries published by Image Comics written by Warren Ellis entitled Supreme: Blue Rose.

Decorated but unemployed and slightly mentally ill investigative journalist Diana Dane has a dream where Danny Fuller informs her that the universe is only months old, and warns her not to trust Darius Dax.

Diana heads to Littlehaven to investigate, accompanied by Linda, aka "Twilight Girl Marvel", and followed by an assassin named Reuben Tube, who plans to kill Ethan on Dax's orders.

She continues to encounter Danny in dreams, and also experiences strange visions and observes unusual phenomena such as naturally occurring blue roses and three-winged birds.

Time traveller Zayla Zarn, reasoning that the present is doomed, begins gathering her friends in the current era and transporting them to the future.

Meanwhile, brilliant scientist Chelsea Henry has discovered an anomaly in the cosmic background radiation that stretches across the timestream, from four months in the past to the 30th Century.

Probe experiences visions of the possible coming centuries of chaos and joins with Doc Rocket, a speedster superhero from the last revision, to locate Supreme.

In Littlehaven, Diana interviews the survivors of the crash and learns that, while everyone can remember Ethan Crane's existence, no one has any specific memories of him or the details of his life.

She meets with local priest Father John Oliver "Jack" Lancombe, who informs her that Judy Jordan has constructed a memorial museum to the crash in her home on the outskirts of town.

In the new revision Diana Dane, the city editor of the newspaper "Dazzle News" notices a vase of blue roses on her desk, and then receives reports of strange happenings in Littlehaven.

As a child, Ethan Crane finds a meteorite composed of pure Supremium, which turns his hair white and gives him various powers such as flight, invulnerability, strength, intelligence, and speed.

She is a brilliant but disengaged young scientist named Chelsea Henry, who is provided with knowledge and power over time and space from the 30th Century.