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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 20, 2017

The AAO honors Gil Kane

At some point I'm going to start talking about the AAO, the Awesome Army Online. The AAO was a fan group that took advantage of AOL and internet chat groups to discuss their favorite creators, issues, characters, etc. But they also started to put out fanzines for conventions. I sort of stumbled upon them just recently and found myself really digging in to the fan fiction of the Awesome characters (especially since we weren't ever going to see more about them from the official creators).

But as I said, I'll get into all of that another day. Today I want to highlight one special issue of the fanzine, called The Outpost, that they did immediately following Gil Kane's death. It's a beautiful tribute and makes a nice sort of epilogue to the Judgment Day: Aftermath framing sequence.

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2 comments:

  1. IceOctober 20, 2017 at 10:52 AM

    Huh. That was a touching little fan fiction story. I wonder if Alan Moore ever saw this.

    And, I'd never heard of the AOO, so this was a very informative post. Thanks!

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    1. MikeOctober 20, 2017 at 11:51 AM

      Some of the fan fiction is really good (some is um... not). It's definitely worth skimming through. I'll highlight some that I really enjoyed in an upcoming post.

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