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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, 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It also includes loads of extras, such as rare interviews with Moore and Liefeld; rare and unpublished art; a fold-out poster; script samples from Judgment Days, information on what's never been released and how the work at Awesome led to ABC!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!
















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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 17, 2019 at 4:35 PM

    This is super cool!

    From where are the black and white Professor Night and Radar pages you posted???

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    1. MikeJuly 17, 2019 at 9:55 PM

      They come from the Awesome Army Online fan fiction. You can find it all here: http://forgottenawesome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_22.html

      I talk about some of my favorite pieces here: http://forgottenawesome.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-awesome-army-online.html

      and here: http://forgottenawesome.blogspot.com/2017/12/more-supreme-tales-from-aao.html

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