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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

Thursday, January 6, 2022

The now-complete Maxwell the Magic Cat

Even as Alan Moore was writing some of his most well-known series in England and America, he did a little comic strip in his local newspaper in Northampton. The strip, Maxwell the Magic Cat, ran for seven years until Moore grew upset at their coverage of homosexual issues. 

A little publisher called Acme reprinted the strips in four volumes. Those volumes are long since out of print and really expensive on the secondary market. So I made my own book, collecting all the strips and the extras from the Acme books:








 
In 2016, the newspaper was going out of business. So they turned over the last issue to the local Arts Lab, run by Alan Moore. Moore returned with an editorial and a final Maxwell strip. So I just added the editorial and strip to my book:
 



So, now it is truly the complete Maxwell the Magic Cat!