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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, April 11, 2018

Wonder Woman's first appearance

Wonder Woman wasn't a superhero I ever followed regularly. Of the big three, Batman was always my favorite, although that's changed quite a bit once Batman got oversaturated in the 1990s. So it's been kind of fun to explore some of the history of Wonder Woman through my interest in Awesome's Glory. And as always, it's a shame we didn't get more of it.

Anyway, since we're talking Glory/Wonder Woman for the next two weeks, I thought it'd be fun to take a look at Wonder Woman's first appearance, as a backup feature in All Star Comics #8.

It's a well-constructed little story, starting with Steve Trevor crash landing on Paradise Island, learning more about the island from Hippolyte in a text-only section, before seeing how Steve came to crash the plane. Then there's a contest where Diana proves herself the most capable Amazonian and becomes Wonder Woman.

See what you think:













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