Alan Moore working for Rob Liefeld? One of the unlikeliest combinations in comics, and yet, for a short but prolific time, they made it Awesome.
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
Here's an odd little thing, courtesy of my friend Rob:
So when DC reprinted Superman 123 in Superman 217, which was the first appearance of a proto Supergirl, they re-colored her orange and green. Did Alan know about this reprint to homage it for Supreme 54?
Cartoonist Kayfabe interviewed Rob Liefeld and the conversation turned to Alan Moore and how Alan tried to offer a different Moore to write the third season of Supreme. That part of the conversation starts around 1:16:00.
Basically, Liefeld says that Alan wanted to keep making $10,000 an issue, but to be co-writing with Steve Moore. Liefeld refused and that was the end of Supreme. Liefeld doesn't mention that Alan was hip deep in ABC by this point and Liefeld initiated this conversation.
Cartoonist Kayfabe did a fun interview with Jim Valentino recently, which you can watch here. Very little of it has to do with Awesome, but there is a great little bit at 1:27:00.
When Moore says that he's not sure, Valentino uses a trick that he says Dave Gibbons taught him. He tells Alan, "We want you to do everything on Supreme that DC wouldn't let you do with Superman."
