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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, March 21, 2018

The Moore seeds for Youngblood #11

I think the biggest Moore seeds for this issue came in how the fan creators used Sylvia Plath's writings in a similar way to how Moore is currently using H.P. Lovecraft. (Well, and a few Lovecraft monsters thrown in.) Let's check out some more:
  • Here's what Moore had to say about Johnny's backstory in his proposal:
and
  • The setup with the Occupant taking over Badrock came from the proposal, as well (we'll see the Allies show up next issue):
  •  Bringing in Maximage probably comes from here:
  • How they treated Lord Sin is new and quite darker than we've seen before. I think this is an interesting bit, though I'm not sure if it came into play with their thinking:
  • The cover of Kid Supreme was an obvious homage to how Moore handled the backstories in Supreme:
  • The bickering Clintons is another obvious homage to the Clintons' appearance in Supreme: The Return #1:

Any that you noticed that I missed?

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