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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, September 1, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #15

 

 
Supreme issue 15 came out in July 1994. The story was by Rob Liefeld. Kurt Hathaway does the witing, lettering, and editing. And guys... Pedi is back! Oh, this is going to be fun. 
 
We are on part 3 of Supreme Madness, the Grand Tour of the Image universe and we're hitting the big stop today... Spawn! I shouldn't even have to explain this, but I will, Spawn was a former black ops military guy (all of the Image "heroes" were) who got killed and made a deal with the devil to return to life as Spawn. But he only had a certain amount of magic before the devil reclaimed him. (Or something like that.) He lived in an alley with a bunch of homeless drunks. 

We start the issue in the alley where Spawn is doing some drinking, when in wanders Supreme and snuffs the fire for Thor's hammer. 


Spawn goes to confront Supreme and finds Supreme distraught that the name Supreme doesn't mean much to people, like it did in the 1940s. 

I guess his Supreme Madness has shifted to the self-pity part.

Then we get a little flashback to Supreme's origin, about Dr. Wells creating Supreme as a weapon, blah blah blah and became a hero. 

 

 

He then talks about the events since issue 1 and we find out in the editor's note that Grizlock actually was killed in the explosion in his lab. Well that's anticlimactic.  

Spawn, speaking for all of us, replies: "That sure was one sad story, Supreme, even if there was no point." Ha!

Spawn then tells his own pointless story about how he became Spawn. 

 

Supreme is upset, thinking Spawn is jealous and flies off. 

 

The end? We didn't even get to see them fight. What was the point of this issue, to bring the characters together and swap origin stories? Weird and really boring.

At least Pedi's art is insane, as always. Take away the Supreme stuff and his style fits the Spawn stuff really well. What's he doing at Extreme, he should have gone to work for Todd.

Anyway, Supreme Madness rolls on. Why is the better question. 

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