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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, October 20, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #30


Supreme issue 30 came out in July 1995. Gary Carlson was the writer. Penciled by Joe Bennett. Inked by Norm Rapmund. Lettered by Kurt Hathaway.

And now the shocking, appalling, amazing conclusion to Supreme: Apocalypse!!! 

yawn

We start off on Darkthornn's world, with Darkthornn telling D'Arcangel that he intends to send his army to Earth to destroy it. 


 

Meanwhile, on Earth, Kid Supreme, Amnesia Supreme, and some Tick-like guy named Vangaurd beat up on Darkthornn's disciples in the skies over Washington, DC. 


On the ground, Roman, Troll and some others fight as well, while Glory holds onto Darkthornn's baby, which he wants to kill to unleash some intense power or whatever. 


There's a lot of talk about energy and transferring it from one planet to another and one person to another, but it never makes a ton of sense.

Anyway, Prophet shows up and does Prophet stuff to the disciples.

Back to the fascinating conversation about energy. Apparently Dr. Wells, on Darkthornn's planet, is siphoning off energy and sending it to Prophet, but it soon overwhelms him. So he shoots it off at Amnesia Supreme, who absorbs it and starts glowing. 


The stolen energy closes the transportation device that is bringing disciples to Earth. But another transport opens and Amnesia Supreme comes through and starts fighting Darkthornn. 


Darkthornn claims to be Supreme's evolutionary superior which makes Amnesia Supreme wonder what Darkthornn knows about the mystery of Amnesia Supreme's true origin, which distracts Amnesia Supreme long enough for metal tentacles to shoot into his eyes. 


Darkthornn starts sucking the energy out of Amnesia Supreme but Dr. Wells shows up and "reverses the polarity" of the energy, which technobabble technobabble technobabble causes Darkthornn to blow up.


Only Amnesia Supreme survives the explosion and returns to Earth. He tells everyone that he thinks Darkthornn and Dr. Wells are dead. And he kisses Glory because that's what you do at the end of a company-wide crossover.

We then get an epilogue to a faraway world (but not Darkthornn's faraway world) where a guy who looks very much like Supreme is in a prison cell.


Things are about to get really confusing.