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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, January 26, 2018

The Youngblood cover that wasn't

While poking around comicartfans.com, I came across this:

 

It's an Ed McGuinness cover for Youngblood #2. Supposedly, it was going to be a variant cover. McGuinness was doing work for Awesome at the time (and if you have any interest, check out his work on Fighting American), so that makes sense. And Rob Liefeld's variant cover for issue #2 was originally supposed to be one of the 9,000 variants for issue #1. So, it makes sense to think that Liefeld's cover probably got pushed back to issue #2 and McGuinness's never got used. I mean, it makes sense in an Awesome kind of way.

Here it is cleaner and bigger...



...and colored:


Maybe if they ever reprint all of the Alan Moore Youngbloods, it can be the cover that will be again.
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