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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

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Steve Skroce, eh?

I had never heard of Steve Skroce before Youngblood, so I guess it's a good idea to talk a little bit about him. He's a Canadian, so he must be nice. (That's a thing, right?)

He broke into comics in 1993 on the Clive Barker series Ectokid for Marvel Comics' Razorline imprint, where he worked with one of the Wachowski Brothers (now sisters). He went to work on the Marvel series Cable and X-Man before moving onto The Amazing Spider-Man in 1996.

After that, Awesome came calling for Youngblood. He'd do two+ issues before Awesome went belly up. Moore approached him about doing Top Ten for his ABC line, but Skroce didn't want to do a monthly comic at the time.

Having worked on Ectokid, Skroce was contacted to create storyboards for The Matrix, which were used by the writing-producing-directing Wachowskis team to help pitch their movie to Warner Bros.

Here's some of his storyboards:





Skroce briefly returned to Marvel in 2000 to write and pencil four issues of Wolverine before drawing storyboards for the rest of the Matrix Trilogy. Here's an interesting interview about his storyboarding work.

Skroce often works on movies with the Wachowskis, and has done storyboards for I, Robot (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), Speed Racer (2008), Ninja Assassin (2009), Cloud Atlas (2012), and Jupiter Ascending (2015).

In 2004, he co-created (along with comicbook artist Geof Darrow) and drew Doc Frankenstein for Burlyman Entertainment, which is written by the Wachowskis.

With Brian K. Vaughan in 2015, Skroce was the co-creator and artist of the Image Comics science fiction series We Stand On Guard.

More recently, it was announced that he's doing an Image comic called Maestros.

4 comments:

  1. Interesting that he worked with Moore on Youngblood then later did storyboards for the movie adaptation of Moore's V For Vendetta. I know Moore doesn't have any love for those movie adaptations, but I always liked the V movie even if it is a little simple compared to the book.

    I'll have to see if I can find Skroce's V for Vendetta storyboards!

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    1. Yeah, that part jumped out at me, too. I like the movie, though I haven't seen it in a while and would rather read the book again, first.

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    2. Could you please send me the youngblood fan comics? I sent you a message through email. It's all I want

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    3. Could you please send me the youngblood fan comics? I sent you a message through email. It's all I want

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