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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

Monday, November 9, 2020

Liefeld's point of view on the end of Awesome and Supreme

 Cartoonist Kayfabe interviewed Rob Liefeld and the conversation turned to Alan Moore and how Alan tried to offer a different Moore to write the third season of Supreme. That part of the conversation starts around 1:16:00.

Basically, Liefeld says that Alan wanted to keep making $10,000 an issue, but to be co-writing with Steve Moore. Liefeld refused and that was the end of Supreme. Liefeld doesn't mention that Alan was hip deep in ABC by this point and Liefeld initiated this conversation.

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  1. Interesting, this is the first I've heard that Alan Moore requested Supreme, as opposed to it being offered to him. I can believe that he would have tried to pass on the title to Steve Moore when he was finished with it, it's like when he handed off Miracleman to Neil Gaiman.

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    1. Yeah... only Liefeld is claiming Moore asked for Supreme so I'd be hesitant to believe that completely. Alan was already passing on some ABC work to Steve Moore at the time Liefeld probably called Moore for more Supreme scripts, so I completely believe that he thought he would be doing Liefeld a favor and doing Steve a favor. Having read some of Steve's work... I don't know that it was so bad that we didn't get a third season with Alan not really writing much.

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