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So a long time ago (the mid-1990s), the greatest writer in comics agreed to take over the writing duties for Image Comics' Supreme. He would radically reshape the character, the book, and due to forces beyond his control, a whole comic book universe. And it led to an award-winning run of comics, three additional titles (among several proposed) and ultimately led to the genesis of Moore's much better known America's Best Comics. And then it all went out of print and was forgotten by way too many.

Having gathered quite a bit of information about Moore's Supreme and Awesome runs, I decided to create a home for the forgotten Awesome. Over the course of a year, I put it all together here.

Each week I did a main "Weekly Reading" post that was a read-through of that issue. I followed that up with a couple of other posts about topics from that Weekly Reading or whatever else I came up with to talk about. You'll find the lost Youngbloods in the Youngblood section and the fan-edit of the last Supreme in After Awesome.

Below is the archive of posts broken up by book. Thanks for checking the site out!

Book 1: Supreme: The Story of the Year

Book 1: Judgment Day

Book 3: Supreme: The Return

Book 4: Youngblood

Book 5: Glory

Book 6: After Awesome

Book 7: 1963

Book 8: Night Raven

Book 9: A Small Killing

Friday, June 1, 2018

You are SUPREME!

Whew! That was quite the ride. And I even managed to finish the annotations! If you see any I missed, please let me know and I'll fill them in here.

So way back in June of last year I started this blog figuring I'd finally have a place to put all the information and images I'd gathered about Alan Moore's Awesome works. It turned into a fun opportunity to talk to a lot of fans of Moore and the Awesome Universe. I discovered a lot of things I didn't know about Superman and Awesome comics, found a lost Chris Sprouse Supreme page, reveled in the fan creators' Youngblood issues, and finally created my own ending to Supreme. I hope I've encouraged those of you who haven't read these comics to give them a try, and for those of you who already loved these comics, thanks for reliving them with me.

I have more than a few plans for the near future, which I may or may not share as I complete them. And if you want to talk Supreme, Judgment Day, Youngblood, Glory, the lost Prophet and New Men, or just about anything else, just shoot me an email. 

Again, thanks for taking this ride with me. It's been Awesome.


5 comments:

  1. Sad to see the blog end. I enjoyed it. Thanks!

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    1. It’ll stick around. Someone else is doing 1963. I’m thinking when he’s done, I might do a read through of Moore’s WildCATs. It wasn’t a great series, but it did sort of lay the groundwork for Supreme.

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  2. What do we know about the lost Prophet series?

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    1. We don’t know much, but it seems to be very similar to the idea that became Tom Strong. I go into it a bunch here: http://forgottenawesome.blogspot.com/2018/04/after-awesome-part-1-abc-and-tom-strong.html

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  3. Awesome Blog. Very fun ride and I definitely learned a lot.
    Very excited to read and learn more about 1963.

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