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
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Rob Liefeld, Warchild and Awesome/DC
Another article is making the rounds on the internet with Moore saying disparaging things about superheroes and American culture. However this time, Rob Liefeld chimed in on social media with this:
There's a few interesting things that come up from his post. First is the recording of conversations with Alan Moore. Liefeld recorded Moore's pitch for Warchild. Written shortly after Moore saw Pulp Fiction for the first time, it's a knights-of-the-round-table concept set in a Tarantino-esque inner city gangland setting. But don't get too excited, according to Eric Stephenson, Moore never finished the limited series and two scripts were left undone. You can read more about that here.
Second is how much Moore got paid. I'm not into speculating on Moore's wealth, but it's interesting that with all the scripts and pitches that went unproduced (four Youngbloods, two Glories, two Warchild, pitches for The Allies, Prophet and New Men), Liefeld has/had $80,000+ of Moore work that he never did anything with.
Finally, Moore was rightfully wary of DC. According to a couple of sources, while Alan was working for Awesome, there was an effort (I believe from inside Awesome) to do a crossover with DC, which Alan wanted no part of. There was also talk that as times got bad for Awesome, that Rob could sell the company to DC (as Jim Lee later did with Wildstorm). Alan continually pointed out that he wasn’t under contract and could walk away from Awesome whenever he wanted. A lot of these reports are third and fourth hand, so take them with a grain of salt.
Special thanks to Flavio Pessanha for letting me steal the Liefeld post.