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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

Monday, December 2, 2019

That time Alan Moore wrote a comic about Darth Vader

In 1982, Alan Moore was trying to get his foot in the comic door, and he wasn't all that picky. So he wrote a handful of Start Wars-based comics for MarvelUK's Empire Strikes Back Monthly, even though his knowledge of Star Wars was incredibly spotty.

One issue featured the Dark Lord's Conscience, the best of the stories. Moore would later tell a funny story of how MarvelUK was on such a shoestring budget and such a crazy place that the last page got dropped from this story.

The art was by John Stokes. I believe the coloring in the pages below is from the Devilworlds reprint Dark Horse comics published much later (and included that lost last page), which looks to be available here or here.

  
  
  
  
 
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