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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, October 27, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #32


Supreme issue 32 came out in October 1995. Eldon Asp (likely a pseudonym for Eric Stephenson and friends) was the writer. Penciled by Brian Denham and Jeff Johnson. Inked by Norm Rapmund and Eric Cannon. The framing sequence was written by Stephenson. Penciled by Karl Alstaetter and inked by Eric Cannon. Lettered by Kurt Hathaway.

In the 0 issue, we saw someone who looked like Supreme, smells like Supreme and is Probably Supreme shot into space in a tube. Well, the tube has landed on a planet that looks like Earth and Probably Supreme is investigating.

We cut to Chi on his world, last seen in the Supreme annual. Chi had hired an assassin to kill the Religious Fanatic Supreme and that Religious Fanatic Supreme had vowed revenge. Chi gets a message that says "Soon. -Supreme". Chi gets some girl named Tohreen and his armor. 


We then get a little recap of the annual story, before we see Religious Supreme show up at Chi's doorstep. 

Religious Fanatic Supreme shows up and he and Chi start fighting. As they're fighting, Religious Fanatic Supreme chases Chi into a tunnel inside a waterfall where he sees the mangled form of Father Beam, the priest Religious Fanatic Supreme killed in Legend of Supreme. 

 

Beam accuses Religious Fanatic Supreme of being a sinful murderer. Religious Fanatic Supreme realizes that Beam would never equate the sinner with the sin and that it must be Chi, who Religious Fanatic Supreme then incinerates. 


Religious Fanatic Supreme then flies off. How that links to the story of Probably Supreme on the planet like Earth, I have no idea. But I guess they wanted to finish off that subplot from the annual, which I guess I appreciate. That said, Religious Fanatic Supreme will still show up one more time. 

On not Earth, Probably Supreme gets a ride in a hover farm truck toward Capital City and the farmer tells him that it is Earth. 

 Meanwhile, Amnesia Supreme is flying around Washington, DC, when Kid Supreme shows up. Just as Amnesia Supreme is about to tell Kid Supreme that he is not Supreme, they both turn into women. 

 

Yeah, this whole Eric Stephenson run is really off to a great start.



 

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