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, December 16, 2019
Alan Moore's reality TV horror story: Come On Down
This sharp and biting little story about our love of reality TV appeared in Taboo in 1988 as Alan Moore was leaving DC. This is another of the stories reprinted in Brighter Than You Think.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Shadowhawk of legend: Shadows in the Sand
Here's another little oddity, a short story from 1995 for Jim Valentino's Shadowhawk. Mixing magic and gods, this is vintage Moore. It features Aleister Crowley, Moore's favorite magician and a character he's used in From Hell and Promethea. Here, as in a lot of his writing from this time, Moore was exploring the concept of gods as ideas and how as ideas they have great power.
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Chronocops
Is anyone better at these twisty time-travel stories than Alan Moore? Dave Gibbons has fun stealing the MAD Magazine style of Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder, as seen here.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Itchy Peterson: "Just Born Lucky, I Guess"
This 8-pager from Chaos' Nightmare Theater #4, with art by Val Semeiks, came out in 1997. I love this take on a world where monsters are real, but treated as comedy.
Monday, December 9, 2019
Alan Moore as artist for Harvey Pekar's American Splendor
I always got the sense that a part of Moore wanted to be Robert Crumb and do underground comics and the superhero stuff kind of came as a lucrative surprise. In 1990 he followed in R. Crumb's footsteps and did this page of artwork for Harvey Pekar's American Splendor:
Moore talked about his relationship with Pekar and how he helped a Kickstarter campaign to fund a statue for Pekar here.
Friday, December 6, 2019
That time Alan Moore wrote the autobiography of the Kool-Aid Man
In 1998 Alan Moore wrote a four-page back-up story for Peter Bagge's Hate #30 about the Kool-Aid Man. It's hilarious in its look at how a minor celebrity experienced a weird time in American history.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Alan Moore's Dracula: The New European
In 1997, to honor the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Harris put out a one shot featuring stories by Warren Ellis, Alan Moore and James Robinson featuring Vampirella and Dracula. Moore's dealt with imagining Dracula in the 1990s and featured some stunning art by Gary Frank. Dynamite, which owns Vampirella, was nice enough to post the whole story here.
In the original comic, they also featured this interview with Moore. (Sorry for the bad scans.)
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