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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, September 5, 2023

The chronological Judgment Day, Part 4: Pirates, Puritans and cowboys

When last we saw the book of fate, it was being guarded by the Winter Knight, from King Arthur's Camelot, and taken into his order the Knights Templar. The book would remain there until the Knights Templar started to dissolve. 

Toby, a lawyer in the Youngblood murder trial, would explain what happened next.

It's kind of surprising that Moore didn't show any adventures of the pirate Captain Compass, but I guess he may have thought his pirate comic in Watchmen was enough.

NightEagle, the Native American magus, testifies in the Youngblood murder trial about the Puritan who would obtain it next. It's clear that Deliverance Drue is based on Solomon Kane.


 




In a classic Alan Moore time-traveling twist, it's only after these events that NightEagle is called upon to testify in the trial itself.
 
 
He continued his testimony:
 


In a small postscript to the cowboys, it turns out Kid Thunder was black and there was a curse on him that his seed are going to hell. 
 
 
 Moore gets cute and has "hell" mean that Sentinel ends up in Supreme's Hell of Mirrors. {groan}
 
And so the book remained hidden, waiting to be unearthed again, not by a troll, but by an archeologist.
 

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