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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, October 6, 2017

Awesome jewelry?

One of the nice things about being a comic book geek nowadays is that you're not just limited to comic books anymore. You can find T-shirts, busts, action figures, posters, bobble heads, Lego minifigs, novelizations, jewelry and so much more.

Awesome didn't exist long enough for very many products to get made. I think there may have been a few action figures, but they were mostly for the old Extreme series, like prior iterations of Youngblood. There will be some that I'll talk about later, once the painter Alex Ross gets involved, but most of that happened after Moore had already left Awesome (and I'll talk about those in an Alex Ross post much later).

For this post, I want to talk about two jewelry items I came across on eBay. The first is a pin with the Supreme logo:


According to the seller (oldtymer63), these were made for the Mega-Con comic convention in Florida by Quantum Design, where he worked. They were limited to 500. He's still got some and said he probably sells three to four sets of two pins a year.

He also said his company produced a ring in honor of Fighting American for Awesome:


The seller says in his listing that Quantum Design sold some at the San Diego Comic-Con in 1998. The silver rings were limited to 75. He watched Joe Simon sign all the certificates at their booth and left with about a dozen rings.

So if anyone is looking for a Fighting American ring or a set of two Supreme pins, please check out Oldtymer63's listings.

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