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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, August 13, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #7

 

 

Supreme issue 7 came out in November 1993. The story is by Eric Stephenson and someone named, I kid you not, Ripley. Pencils and inks are by Shawn McManus. Kurt Hathaway has now taken over the writing, lettering and editing. That's efficient. Just have the letterer try to make it all make sense.

The superpowered beings from the future are known as Starguard and we get their roll call in one of those weird rotated double-page splashes Extreme used to love doing: 

 

They're here to offer a warning. What's the warning? "...be ready--ready to conquer the menace when it arises." That is really helpful. Before they can say more, their emergency alarm goes off and they have to hurry and deal with it... because Ripley and the other writers don't really understand how time travel works. Sigh.  

We then get back to the weird plot about the reporter, Max. Apparently now she's incredibly mad about Dulles airport blowing up... because her dad was inside! 

This is brand new information that isn't presented in any kind of believable way. It's like they realized that her motivation made no sense, so they decided to one up it... to the EXTREME!

Anyway, Max confronts Supreme, demanding he take responsibility, which SHOCKER, he does not.

There's a whole thing about Heavy Mettle being scrapped, which is just about as boring as when Heavy Mettle was active. 

We cut to Thor, who is in Germany, demanding to be taken to see Adolf Hitler. 

 

Thor has returned to kill Hitler, not realizing it is 1993. Supreme flies off to deal with Thor.

I can't wait to see how they resolve this. Maybe by sitting down and having a metaphysical debate about whether gods can exist if no one believes in their mythology anymore?