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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

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Supreme #4

 

 

Supreme 4 was published in Jul 1993 with a plot by Rob Liefeld; pencils, script and colors by Brian Murray; and lettering by Kurt Hathaway.

After dealing with the terrorists at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, he flies off to go confront Khrome, the alien leader with a grievance against Supreme. 

We get some scenes of infighting with Heavy Mettle, but they're not going to be around much longer, so let's not worry about them. 

As Supreme fights a Khrome clone, the real Khrome transports to Dulles and blows it up, for reasons that are never explained. I think to punish Supreme? 

There's a long pointless fight between Khrome and Heavy Mettle, which goes about how you would expect.

Supreme figures out the clone situation and goes down to fight Khrome. 

We don't really learn anything new about Supreme or anything that will become important in his later, Moore incarnation.

This is kind of what I assumed these early Supremes were like and they're not letting me down!

Next time... more Khrome... yay.