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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

Friday, August 22, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #11

 

My god. That cover can't be real, can it? Oh, it's real all right. Welcome to the shitshow that is Supreme issue 11.

Supreme issue 11 was published in March 1994. The story is by Rob Liefeld and Eric Stephenson. The script, letters and editing is by Kurt Hathaway. The art is by Pedi. (No, seriously.)

I'm not going to bother to talk about the plot of this issue because it's basically Quantum, the father of Cabbot (of Bloodstrike) and Battlestone (of Brigade) trying to end all of humanity, while Supreme and the other Extreme beings try to stop him. 

Extreme had multiple giant crossovers with all of the other Extreme comics and they're almost all worthless for trying to binge one series. Supreme will appear in it a bit, but it's mostly about way too many other characters and some villain who is always trying to destroy humanity or something in ways that aren't even the littlest bit interesting.

And that's the case here, too. Instead, I want to take a couple of minutes and talk about this art because it is insane.

 

Hair is going every which way. Eyes are making expressions that are independent of the characters or even the plot of this story. And these muscles must be a parody of Image anatomy, right?

 

The only thing I can imagine is that Pedi is a European artist who came over for some easy money and turned in an absolute mockery of Image Comics, and they ran it anyway. 

Because anything else makes absolutely no sense.

Wow.