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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 28, 2018

The Moore seeds for Youngblood #12


  • Moore had the idea for a two-part conclusion with an Allies team up, as described in the proposal:
 
  • Moore had proposed doing a New Men series. We never saw more than what was shown in Judgment Day: Aftermath.
  • We saw Selene in Judgment Day: Aftermath, Helios appeared in Glory #2, which I'll get to very soon.
  • The way Glory changes bodies is very much in keeping with how Moore had her switch bodies, as we'll also see soon.
  • Moore hinted at Die Hard being either a robot or a cyborg in the Judgment Day miniseries. We know that he fought in World War II as part of The Allies, but I don't believe Moore ever suggested he was old enough to have known Teddy Roosevelt.
  • Moore had plans to use Janet Planet in the Youngblood issue dealing with the Goat, but never did:
  • It's very much a Moore idea to have the first issue wrap time back to start the whole series, as Johnny does with the Occupant. 
  • The cool page showing Johnny and Doc walking through the lab is reminiscent of this page from Moore's Big Numbers. I'm not sure if he's done it elsewhere.
  • Doc's description of Idea Space is pretty much in keeping with Moore's ideas of Idea Space we've talked about repeatedly.
  • The joke about turning Sentinel into Big Brother is one Moore tackled early on with Leonard complaining about all the black Youngblood members turning into villains.
  • Moore actually planned for Sally and Leonard to remain split up, but I guess our fan-creators decided to go a different way.
  • The epilogue's format is taken directly from the Awesome Holiday Special.
  • Moore planned to have Stormhead return:
  • Suprema's Away Team has two members that Moore had Suprema recommend to Shaft during the formation stage in the Awesome Holiday Special: Skipper and Lamprey.
  • Johnny in Idea Space looks very much like Gil Kane's appearance in Judgment Day: Aftermath. And of course, the joke about Idea Space is like LSD is a nod to Moore who has mentioned on several occasions that LSD has affected the way he views time and space, to his benefit as a writer.
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