Alan Moore working for Rob Liefeld? One of the unlikeliest combinations in comics, and yet, for a short but prolific time, they made it Awesome.
Welcome
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
Monday, July 29, 2019
Shelf porn
I've seen people do this on Reddit, so I'm going to do it here. This is my humble comic book shelves (as you can see, it's mostly work by Alan Moore). A lot of them are custom binds, so if you're curious about what anything is, just ask in the comments. I have it organized by (mostly) chronology, with some notable exceptions.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
New custom Supreme/Awesome hardcovers - parts 5 & 6
Welcome back. These are the final two volumes of my six volume set of the ultimate Awesome collection!
You can see the first two--two volumes of Supreme--here, Judgment Day/Glory is here, and Youngblood is here. Today, I've got the two volumes that have the least to do with Moore.
The first is called The Other Awesome Universe. It features series and issues that were put out by other creators during the Awesome years. It includes Jeph Loeb's Fighting American: Rules of the Game, The Coven (with a Supreme/Citadel crossover), Kaboom and Lary Stucker's Brigade (with Youngblood and Supreme connections). Brigade, Kaboom and the Fighting American miniseries were all really fun comics. Moore wanted a huge Awesome Universe and it's nice to have other comics to make it feel bigger than it was.
This hardcover's only special feature is a brief history of all of the other series and one-shots Awesome produced (even the awful ones, such as Jada Pinkett Smith's Menace).
The second hardcover is called After Awesome and features some of the series that used Alan Moore's Awesome characters and ideas in interesting ways. It features Joe Casey's Youngblood, Tim Seeley's underrated Bloodstrike and Warren Ellis's Supreme Blue Rose. It also has features on all of the series (to present) that followed Alan Moore's, including Erik Larsen's misguided Supreme run (I read them so you don't have to). It also includes an interview I did with Seeley about his run on Bloodstrike and how he saw it as an Awesome book published years too late. This is the perfect volume for seeing what happened next and Supreme Blue Rose makes a nice end for the entire Awesome universe.
Let me know what you think.
You can see the first two--two volumes of Supreme--here, Judgment Day/Glory is here, and Youngblood is here. Today, I've got the two volumes that have the least to do with Moore.
The first is called The Other Awesome Universe. It features series and issues that were put out by other creators during the Awesome years. It includes Jeph Loeb's Fighting American: Rules of the Game, The Coven (with a Supreme/Citadel crossover), Kaboom and Lary Stucker's Brigade (with Youngblood and Supreme connections). Brigade, Kaboom and the Fighting American miniseries were all really fun comics. Moore wanted a huge Awesome Universe and it's nice to have other comics to make it feel bigger than it was.
This hardcover's only special feature is a brief history of all of the other series and one-shots Awesome produced (even the awful ones, such as Jada Pinkett Smith's Menace).
The second hardcover is called After Awesome and features some of the series that used Alan Moore's Awesome characters and ideas in interesting ways. It features Joe Casey's Youngblood, Tim Seeley's underrated Bloodstrike and Warren Ellis's Supreme Blue Rose. It also has features on all of the series (to present) that followed Alan Moore's, including Erik Larsen's misguided Supreme run (I read them so you don't have to). It also includes an interview I did with Seeley about his run on Bloodstrike and how he saw it as an Awesome book published years too late. This is the perfect volume for seeing what happened next and Supreme Blue Rose makes a nice end for the entire Awesome universe.
Let me know what you think.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
New custom Supreme/Awesome hardcovers - part 4
Back for more, eh? As I said in the posts about my Supreme books and my Judgment Day/Glory book, this is a project I've been working on for a year
or more. I have made my ultimate set of Awesome hardcovers. I'm still
working on dust jackets for two more of them, so a couple more to come.
Presenting the ultimate Alan Moore Youngblood hardcover!
This hardcover feature all of the published issues: the story from the Awesome Holiday Special, the Judgment Day Aftermath story, the Twilight extra in Youngblood +1, Youngblood 1-2, Alan Moore's Awesome Adventures 1 and all of the fan-created work from Moore's scripts (properly finishing off Youngblood 3, all of Youngblood 4-7) and the fan-fiction Youngblood 8-12, based on Moore's proposal. Moore's proposal is in here, along with an interview from Moore about the series and all of Moore's scripts for issue 2-7. It even features a Suprema sketch from Steve Skroce!
The cover is from an unpublished Ed McGuinness piece that I found and had colored. (Sorry for the dark photos, the power went out while I was making this.) Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more books to come!
Presenting the ultimate Alan Moore Youngblood hardcover!
This hardcover feature all of the published issues: the story from the Awesome Holiday Special, the Judgment Day Aftermath story, the Twilight extra in Youngblood +1, Youngblood 1-2, Alan Moore's Awesome Adventures 1 and all of the fan-created work from Moore's scripts (properly finishing off Youngblood 3, all of Youngblood 4-7) and the fan-fiction Youngblood 8-12, based on Moore's proposal. Moore's proposal is in here, along with an interview from Moore about the series and all of Moore's scripts for issue 2-7. It even features a Suprema sketch from Steve Skroce!
The cover is from an unpublished Ed McGuinness piece that I found and had colored. (Sorry for the dark photos, the power went out while I was making this.) Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more books to come!
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
New custom Supreme/Awesome hardcovers - part 3
Welcome back. So this is the third book in a project I've been working on for more than a year: my ultimate set of Awesome hardcovers. I'm still
working on dust jackets for three more of them, so they're coming.
You can see the first two--two volumes of Supreme--here.
Today, I've got a book I'm calling Alan Moore's Awesome Universe. It includes Judgment Day and Glory. (I used to include Youngblood in here, but that got expanded enough to be its own book, which I'll show off next time.)
This hardcover feature all of the published Alan Moore material from Judgment Day (the Sourcebook prologue story, the three issues and Aftermath) and Gloy (The Awesome issue 0 and the two+ Avatar issues)! It also includes my favorite pieces of fan fiction produced by the Awesome Army Online back in the late 90s. There are some great little stories in there and I like having them in a place where I can read them with the other Awesome stories.
It also includes loads of extras, such as rare interviews with Moore and Liefeld; rare and unpublished art; a fold-out poster; script samples from Judgment Days, information on what's never been released and how the work at Awesome led to ABC! One Glory issue is signed by Brandon Peterson, who co-created Glory!
The cover is from a Judgment Day issue by Adam Polina and is one of the few pieces of art that captures many of the characters Moore worked on! Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more books to come!
You can see the first two--two volumes of Supreme--here.
Today, I've got a book I'm calling Alan Moore's Awesome Universe. It includes Judgment Day and Glory. (I used to include Youngblood in here, but that got expanded enough to be its own book, which I'll show off next time.)
This hardcover feature all of the published Alan Moore material from Judgment Day (the Sourcebook prologue story, the three issues and Aftermath) and Gloy (The Awesome issue 0 and the two+ Avatar issues)! It also includes my favorite pieces of fan fiction produced by the Awesome Army Online back in the late 90s. There are some great little stories in there and I like having them in a place where I can read them with the other Awesome stories.
It also includes loads of extras, such as rare interviews with Moore and Liefeld; rare and unpublished art; a fold-out poster; script samples from Judgment Days, information on what's never been released and how the work at Awesome led to ABC! One Glory issue is signed by Brandon Peterson, who co-created Glory!
The cover is from a Judgment Day issue by Adam Polina and is one of the few pieces of art that captures many of the characters Moore worked on! Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more books to come!
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