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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

Thursday, October 22, 2020

A new Kid Supreme?

Here's the deal. I really don't want to get into Andrew Rev's contracts, and for the most part, I doubt we'll ever actually see a new Supreme or Youngblood comic from Terrific. So I'm mostly going to ignore the noise. That said, this is interesting. 

An artist working for Rev got angry for non-payment of work so he shared some pages. He said the writer's name is Leon MacKenzie. And it appears to be a Kid Supreme book, which includes the Supremacy, multiple Supremes and maybe Original Dax (um... maybe not). Check it out:

























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  1. There's another artist, Gabriel “Eskivo” Santos, who was the first person to come forward publicly about Terrific and Rev, saying they didn't pay him for work last year, has also shared some of the art he did online. He was an artist on a proposed Supreme book, I don't know if was to be the same as this one or some other book. but while he wouldn't reveal many details of the story as he said that would be up the writer, he said it did involved Kid Supreme having grown up and taking over the mantle of "Supreme"

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    1. Right. I get the feeling like someone over there had a grand plan for it all, but with the way things are shaping up, I'm doubtful we'll ever see any of it.

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    2. Hopefully one day, Andrew Rev will get to a point where he has to sell the rights and someone more competent will pick them up.

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    3. So Rev didn't buy the rights outright, he licensed them (like Dark Horse used to have the license for Star Wars or Aliens) from another entity that owns them (the entity that Liefeld originally sold them to). There's a rumor that he's already lost his license to them. Liefeld fans are hopeful that Image or Liefeld will reacquire the license.

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    4. Oh, lord. I hope that's true. Seeing Supreme again, especially handled by a talented writer who knows what they're doing and gets paid what they're worth, would mean the world it me.

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