Moore's rough outline for the series was published in "Alan Moore's Awesome Handbook" and included a budding relationship between Big Brother and Suprema, a giant planet-devouring entity called "The Goat", Shaft's fruitless crush on Twilight, and the revelation that Johnny Panic was the biological son of Supreme villain Darius Dax. In the "Handbook", Moore also reveals that he intentionally chose the team members for their connections to various points and significant characters in the Awesome Universe's superhero history (ex. Supreme), noting this as the case in the 1980s launch of "The New Teen Titans".