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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 8, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #18

 

Supreme issue 18 came out in August 1994. Story by Rob Liefeld. Written, edited and lettered by Kurt Hathaway. Layouts by Marat Mychaels. Penciled by Cedric Nocon and inked by Norm Rapmund. 

Supreme Madness concludes! We stick with Pitt, who when we saw him last, had ripped Thor's hammer out of Supreme's hands. Despite fighting with Supreme for 20+ pages last issue, only now does Pitt recognize Supreme from his outer space days, when he rescued Pitt's planet from certain doom. I guess it didn't make such a big impression.


So Pitt drops Thor's hammer. Supreme picks it up and sit down to hash out Supreme's feelings of loss and questioning his self worth... oh wait, no. They start fighting again. 


But Pitt won't destroy Supreme, he just wants to render him ineffective... like when he didn't have the hammer that you just gave back to him? This is dumb.

Pitt rescues some innocent bystanders before Supreme collapses into sleep, remembering the events of Supreme Madness. 


A while later, Supreme is woken up by the cops. Pitt is gone, but Simple Simon shows up on his Green Goblin-like glider and proceeds to start fighting. 

Supreme keeps trying to talk Simon out of doing something stupid, but Simon is too simple-minded. Eventually Pitt shows back up and they capture Simon. 

Supreme and Pitt hash out their differences. In typical fashion, Supreme can't even take a compliment, as Pitt thanks him for saving his homeworld and Supreme was like, "Oh, I took care of that threat just for sport." 

 

They depart agreeing to stay out of each other's way.

I guess that means Supreme's over his poorly defined madness just in time for this six-part story arc to end. All he needed was a little sleep and a bit of reflection on the friends he met along the way. In other words, he threw a toddler-style temper tantrum because he was just sweepy.

And no need for messy psychotherapy! We're all winners.