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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

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The chronological Judgment Day, Part 2: The birth of mankind

We're now millions of years since Demeter put the book in the cave at the start of time. Life has developed on the planet and even the beginning of human life. 

 
Giganthro, the cave man member of the League of Infinity, is testifying about his experience with the book of fate in two pages drawn by Steve Skroce.
 


It's interesting to me that the book of fate seems to radiate power in a way that gives enhanced abilities to people near it. Partly that's a very comic sort of idea, like a radioactive spider. 
 
But also, it suggests story and language as an evolutionary step, enhancing those who come into contact with it, from the dinosaur who grows a man's head, to Giganthro, who has developed superior cunning. It's also interesting that Giganthro's cunning suggests the influence of Hermes, as well.
 
The book has tremendous powers but also holds great sway over those it ensnares, like Dino-Man. Obviously, we'll see more of that as we go.
 
Dino-Man returns later and becomes part of the group of arch enemies of the League of Infinity (and we see a statue of him in their headquarters in the pages of Supreme).
 
Next up we'll see who finds the book and draws it out of the depths of the chasm.

4 comments:

  1. You have now few posts concerning the timeline of Awesome Universe, are you maybe planning to do a bigger project where the entire timeline gets worked out? I know that there are some timelines out there, but they are either incomplete or focus on one or two characters.

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    1. I think I have one with just about everything. Let me find it and I'll post it.

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    2. See if this works for you. The timeline is toward the end: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/br9a9m7ukkcatd39sp2uz/00.-ALAN-MOORE-AWESOME-COMPLETE-DOC.doc?rlkey=dj71ttr19mkqa38ss8ce37ns6&dl=0

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    3. Thanks, lots of valuable stuff in that document :)

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