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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

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Putting the Sprouse in New Jack

My friend Greg, who runs the great Ivory Icon Informer blog, recently put up a post that he's been working on for some time. As an admirer of the great Jack Kirby-tribute issue in Supreme: The Return #6, he has always been disappointed that Chris Sprouse had left the series before #6 was produced. As I wrote about in my Weekly Reading, Alan Moore's plan had been for Veitch to do the background and Kirby characters in that issue and Sprouse to handle all the images of Supreme. But without Sprouse, Veitch drew Supreme and was finished off by Rob Liefeld. It's still great, but it always bugged Greg.

So using Photoshop, he made some fixes. It's not the full issue, but what he made does look great. And as he said, "I for one am happy to see what might have been. Even if it is just a fantasy!" Take a look:







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