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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

Monday, September 11, 2023

The chronological Judgment Day, Part 5: Tarzan, Doc Savage, a noir hero and a WWI flying ace

When last we saw the book of destiny, it had been buried in the American west of the mid-1800s. But it couldn't stay buried. Edward Conqueror, a British explorer most likely based on Professor Challenger from Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World, discovered the book when excavating a Native American burial ground, as his descendant testified about at the Youngblood murder trial.

Edward Challenger and family went missing and nothing was heard of them for years.



Ten years later Prophet would bring the book with him on a Doc Savage-inspired adventure where he passed on the book to the WWI flying ace, the Phantom Aviator:

It's starting to become clear how Moore is creating a shared universe of almost every kind of boys adventure genres in comics, from lost worlds with dinosaurs to Tarzan-inspired jungles to WWI flying pilots and 1930s noir heroes, such as The Fog. Moore would go on to repeat this trick in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but this is a fascinating warm up.

Anyway, the Phantom Aviator would fly again in WWII, where we'll see the book next.


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