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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, August 4, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #3


Supreme 3 came out in June 1993 and was co-plotted by Rob Liefeld, written and pencilled by Brian Murray, inked by Chris Ivy and lettered by Kurt Hathaway.

This issue starts with Heavy Mettle (the corporate/government group Supreme has joined) looking at film of Supreme in WWII:




Here is one of the first references to the Allies as a super powered group active in WWII and how they helped the Allied powers win the war. But we only get images of Supreme, so we don't know the members of the Allies yet.

We learn a little more about Heavy Mettle before they're dispatched to protect some Pacifica Coexistence Summit. Terrorists show up, as does Bloodstrike, another government op force. They kill the terrorists, including one who Supreme basically microwaves his skull. But then Supreme realizes Khrome, a Katellan alien, is summoning him to fight in space or something.

      

After the first couple of pages, I lost interest for the terrorist subplot, so I decided to look up Brian Murray. Turns out he went on to do a lot of work for DC and Marvel before becoming a Hollywood concept artist, working on stuff like Star Trek: Picard, Mortal Kombat 12, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Ready Player One, and Solo – A Star Wars Story.