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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, November 7, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #37

 

Supreme issue 37 came out in March  1996. Jim Valentino did the script and layouts. Pencils by Joe Bennett. Inked by Norm Rapmund. Lettered by Kurt Hathaway. Eric Stephenson was the editor and did the co-plot. There were two covers, both by Dan Fraga.

We pick up with Supreme, now in the body of Old Bearded Supreme with the constantly smoking Trenchcoat Constantine. He asks where the other Supreme went and the Wannabe Constantine says he's off doing some good deed with his boy scout mentality, and I can't tell if he's being ironic or just has never read this comic before.

New Supreme in Old Bearded Supreme's Body says he wants to kill Old Bearded Supreme in New Supreme's Body and Trenchcoat Constantine offers to help. Why? Because he is wily and plays by his own rules. And it's really annoyingly dumb.


In outer space, Probe is flying to find Supreme when she's stopped by Enigma, some cosmic mysterious character, that apparently existed before this random cameo. They have a conversation about how Probe knows Enigma from the future before Enigma says that he's going to teach Probe how to use her powers.

On Other Earth, Old Bearded Supreme in New Supreme's Body rescues a runaway commuter train. 


And as he flies off (I guess we've forgotten that Supreme can't fly on this planet) New Supreme in Old Bearded Supreme's Body blasts him with some high-tech weaponry.


Enigma renames Probe as Lady Supreme and teaches her how to use her Supreme powers. Her real Supreme power is keeping her torn-apart costume to remain exactly in place. 


Back on Other Earth, some woman named Mrs. Spencer tells someone named Louis to go get footage of the Supremes fight for their TV channel. And to take Bartholomew. I guess that's someone named Jamie, because he grabs her and takes a flying car to the fight. 


He starts reporting and tells us how the Shepherd and the Keep took this Earth's superpowered beings and the non-powered villains went wild. Then Supreme showed up. But as his beard grew, his powers started to fade. This makes almost no sense, since the Keep stuff happened like two issues ago. Whatever.

In space, Enigma says Probe is ready and teleports them to the Supreme fight. Probe puts a stop to the fighting and they decide to try to figure out who is the real Supreme. 


They call out Wannabe Constantine, but he reveals that he's actually Loki!

 

Three more issues to go!