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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

Friday, July 7, 2023

When Glory was almost drawn by Art Thibert

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Awesome put out the Glory #0 preview issue in March 1999. Shortly after that, Awesome laid off all their employees and most of the writers and artists left, including Brandon Peterson, who was the original artist for Glory. But Awesome still had four Glory scripts written by Moore.

Round about a year later, sometime in spring of 2000, they put out this ad (which I came across on eBay):


Rob Liefeld and company had gotten Art Thibert to agree to do the art for Glory and planned to put out Glory #1 around the same time as Supreme: The Return #5, which came out in May 2000.

For those of you who don't know Thibert, he was a fan-favorite inker who worked on X-Men titles during the pre-Image period. He also penciled for a while in a Jim Lee style, like this:


So, it could have been a good transition from what Brandon Peterson had done. But it never showed up. 

Instead, in December 2001, Avatar put out Glory #1, not with Art Thibert, but with Marat Mychaels (who also had a comic featured on that ad that only showed up with a #0 comic con edition) doing the art.

2 comments:

  1. Will Alan Moore's Glory, which has been discontinued, be published again on Avatar Press in the future...I've seen rumors that the scripts for the third and fourth episodes have already been completed, but I'm not sure if it's true. Looking at the various variant covers that came out when Alan Moore's Glory was published by Avatar Press, it seems like he had really high expectations from Avatar as well...

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    1. Rob Liefeld licensed Glory and the Glory scripts to Avatar, but pulled out of the deal after two issues. It is very unlikely he will ever publish the last two issues or allow Avatar to publish them.

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