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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, November 17, 2025

Reading pre-Moore Supreme - Kid Supreme 1-3 and Asylum 9

 


I'm not going to bother with the individual issues for Kid Supreme because frankly, I just don't care that much. Kid Supreme was a mostly empty character in Supreme, having randomly gotten powers from Supreme while on a field trip to Washington, DC, and then the field trip just seemingly continued for the rest of his time in the series. For some reason, he was given his own series, plotted and penciled Dan Fraga and scripted by Eric Stephenson. The issues came out from March-July 1996.

The series follows Danny Fuller, now living with his grandparents, who know about his powers. He is trying to live a normal life, skateboarding and playing football, but falls for rich girl Tiffany, who happens to be the daughter of a crime boss. 


Unsurprisingly, Kid Supreme interferes with the crime boss's business and he decides to have Kid Supreme killed.

 

The series wanted to be a lot like Spider-Man, and since this was an Extreme comic, it lazily just ripped off Spider-Man. There's a scientist teacher take a formula and become a lizard guy called Reptyle. And there's an electricity guy called Kilowatt. 


 

There's a fun 1990s energy to it, even as it is really dumb. 

Fraga and Stephenson thought they were continuing the series and seemed to be caught by surprise when Moore took the character out of circulation by leaving him in the Supremacy in Supreme 41. There was no issue 4, despite the story and art having been completed.

Since December 1995, Maximum Press, one of Liefeld's other comics goup, had been printing an anthology called Asylum. It was just random stuff, often leftover parts from comics that were being stopped. So, in issue 9 in November 1996, Asylum published the story that would have been Kid Supreme 4.

 

The issue begins with the aftereffects of Kid Supreme's fight in issue 3, but then randomly he is abducted from his bed and dragged to the Supremacy. Unlike in issue 41, he doesn't want to stay and escapes through Supreme's Golden Gateway back to Earth. 

I guess Stephenson wasn't too happy with how Moore had written out his character and Stephenson didn't even bother to try to keep continuity.

He seems down about the whole situation until he remembers that he has a party to go to and everything is fine again. He soon runs into a Sandman-like bad guy, so yeah, thank goodness we didn't leave this character in the Supremacy.

Kid Supreme would later turn up Brigade 1 and occasionally in comics after Awesome ended, but he was pretty much pointless from the start.