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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, February 28, 2018

The Moore seeds for Youngblood #8

As I was reading the fan-creators-written issue #8, I would find myself noticing elements that suggested Alan Moore's ideas from the Youngblood proposal. I wanted to start a running log to see how those ideas were used in the issue. So here goes.

  • Twilight starts in Star City, Moore's Awesome universe of Gotham City as seen in numerous issues of Supreme.
  • The Walrus and the Carpenter are two villains we've seen before, most recently in Miskatonic Asylum in Youngblood #2. Their Clam Cannon appeared in an issue of Supreme, too.
  • Twilight's decision to leave Professor Night was shown here, from Judgment Day: Aftermath. It's possible to read this and get the impression that Professor Night might be pushing her out or that she's deciding for herself to go:
 
  • As for the possibility of a romantic/sexual relationship between the two, there's this from Moore''s proposal (and I'll go more into the historical basis for this relationship in a post on Friday):
  • There's also this odd panel from Supreme that I've talked about before (isn't it odd how Taylor is just sort of drinking and watching her try on clothes) that suggests their relationship is more than just partners:
 
  • Speaking of that proposal, here's Moore talking about Suprema and her morality and how it can be played for laughs and then for sympathy (as well as crossing over with Supreme):

  • Moore also showed us Suprema's feelings of loneliness (and her superhearing), both in Youngblood and in Supreme:
  
  

  • That the elder Doc Rocket is the nicer Doc Rocket is suggested here:
 

  • And Doc Rocket not getting along with Suprema can be seen here:
 
 

  • Moore also had a story idea about the team losing their powers and using their human skills to win the day. That could have been the inspiration for the third story:
 

Did you guys see any others?