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.
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
Cartoonist Kayfabe interviewed Rob Liefeld and the conversation turned to Alan Moore and how Alan tried to offer a different Moore to write the third season of Supreme. That part of the conversation starts around 1:16:00.
Basically, Liefeld says that Alan wanted to keep making $10,000 an issue, but to be co-writing with Steve Moore. Liefeld refused and that was the end of Supreme. Liefeld doesn't mention that Alan was hip deep in ABC by this point and Liefeld initiated this conversation.
Interesting, this is the first I've heard that Alan Moore requested Supreme, as opposed to it being offered to him. I can believe that he would have tried to pass on the title to Steve Moore when he was finished with it, it's like when he handed off Miracleman to Neil Gaiman.
ReplyDeleteYeah... only Liefeld is claiming Moore asked for Supreme so I'd be hesitant to believe that completely. Alan was already passing on some ABC work to Steve Moore at the time Liefeld probably called Moore for more Supreme scripts, so I completely believe that he thought he would be doing Liefeld a favor and doing Steve a favor. Having read some of Steve's work... I don't know that it was so bad that we didn't get a third season with Alan not really writing much.
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