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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

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The cover is from an unpublished Ed McGuinness piece that I found and had colored.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!




















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2 comments:

  1. AjenoDJuly 20, 2019 at 5:39 PM

    Gold. To find these witha hardback cover, and then to include Moore's original format as the script pages or fax. Great work on this [2018!]

    SWB
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    AjenoD

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    1. MikeJuly 24, 2019 at 12:17 PM

      Thanks! I love including Moore's scripts when I have them.

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