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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

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Another fanfic Youngblood story

If you've been reading me for a while, you know that I like Awesome fan fiction. It makes the characters feel still alive. I talked about the Awesome Army Online and their Outpost fan fiction digests in posts here and here. My friend Rob Messick was involved with the AAO back in the day and was nice enough to send me the Outposts, which now live here.

In talking with him, he told me he and his artist partner Brian Milligan, had done another Youngblood story that they distributed with their other Youngblood stories as a Youngblood Bootleg at a convention back in the 2000s. He was nice enough to send it to me and even nicer to give me permission to reprint it here.

(He made me promise to say that it was one of the first comics he wrote and it was designed to be given away for free, but if I didn't think it was great, I wouldn't be sharing it. By the way, you can check out his great Facebook page here: facebook.com/AwestruckComics.)

I love the humor to these guys' Youngblood and the irreverent cartoony look and feel. It's just a fun comic and you can tell they have a genuine love of the Awesome and Extreme Universes. Check it out:































In addition, he showed me a couple of the celebrity artist sketches he's gotten to work on Youngblood characters over the years, including this beauty from Art Adams...


 ...and this one from Mark Bagley (which is for sale, incidentally).


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