The definitive issue-by-issue comic book collecting guide and reading order for Youngblood in omnibus, hardcover, trade paperback, and digital comics. Find every issue and appearance! Part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics Guide to Collecting Indie & Licensed Comics. Last updated March 2023 with titles scheduled for release through August 2023.
Youngblood was the first ongoing Image Comic, which kicked off Rob Liefeld’s multi-decade journey to recapture the lightning in a bottle of his transformation of New Mutants into X-Force.
Many comic fans love to make light of Rob Liefeld’s artwork – especially the way he draws teeth (so many!) and feet (if they even appear on panel). However, Liefeld’s true strength has always been as much as an “Idea Guy” as an artist. His ideas, built upon the bedrock of Claremont and Simonson, are what turned New Mutants into a title facing impending cancellation into one of Marvel’s hottest comics and made X-Force (1991) #1 one of the top-selling comics of all time.
While some of those ideas were unique to the Marvel Universe, some of the characters and designs had been simmering in Liefeld’s brain and on his sketchpads for nearly a decade. You can see many recognizable designs in Youngblood, not only for Marvel characters like Cable, Deadpool, & Sabretooth, but also for DC characters from Liefeld’s fizzled pitches there before forming Image Comics.
As ideas go, Youngblood was a great one – even ahead of its time. It combined elements of Captain America -style super-soldiers, a government-sanctioned team like 80s Avengers or 90s X-Factor, and the concept of superheroes as major media stars. (Ironically, Liefeld’s own X-Force would later run with this idea as it transformed into X-Statix). Even within that mash-up there were many other plots – including Russian spies and heroes indebted to hellish characters.
Altogether, Youngblood had all of the ingredients to be the Avengers of the Image Universe to Jim Lee’s WildCATs as the X-Men.
The unfortunate thing about Rob Liefeld being an “Idea Guy” is that his ideas don’t often come paired with follow-through when he is self-publishing. If he has a chief legacy in comics beyond the creation of Cable and Deadpool, it’s that his own series very rarely reach a conclusion. This was evident from the start with Youngblood, which took nearly three years to release just 10 issues.
In fact, every Youngblood ongoing series ends teasing a next issue or story before disappearing into sudden cancellation. This is true of the original Image series, the Maximum Press and Arcade comics years, and all three of the subsequent Image Comics revivals of the 00s and 10s!
If there is a positive side to the many failed iterations of Youngblood, it’s Liefeld’s stubborn dedication to his pet project. He always recruits high-calibre talent to write Youngblood, which peaked with Alan Moore briefly driving the franchise at the turn of the century. While this has generated some bona-fide hits with books like Prophet and Glory, he can never seem to allow Youngblood to move on without tinkering with it himself.
And, even as the franchise changes creators with each iteration, Liefeld has ensured that Youngblood’s continuity (such as it is) has never been fully rebooted. Every subsequent series launches as some form of a continuation of what came before (and went unresolved), often progressing in real time alongside the real world rather than using a sliding time scale. That means the 25th Anniversary reincarnation in 2017 really was set decades after the book’s debut!
Unfortunately, the ability to continue Youngblood’s story is now out of Rob Liefeld’s hands. The rights to the team are administered by Terrific Production LLC, a production company with little to no inclination to produce any actual comic books.
There may never be a complete and completely-satisfying Youngblood comic series. Yet, the roughly 100 issues that have been published since 1992 are packed with a tantalizing mix of character designs and plot threads. Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood may not have always told the best stories, but it had some great ideas.
- Image Comics (1992 – 1996)
- Youngblood (1992) #1-10 & 0 (Apr 1992 – Dec 1994)
- Image Firsts: Youngblood (2010), a reprint of issue #1
- Youngblood: Strikefile (1993) #1-11 (Apr 1993 – Feb 1995)
- Youngblood Battlezone (1993) #1-2 (May 1993 & July 1994)
- Youngblood Yearbook (1993) #1 (Jul 1993)
- Team Youngblood (1993) #1-22 (Sept 1993 – Apr 1996)
- Bloodpool (1995) #1-4 & Special (Aug – Nov 1995 & Mar 1996)
- Riptide (1995) #1-2 (Sep – Oct 1995)
- Vogue (1995) #1-3 (Oct – Dec 1995)
- Youngblood Collector’s Edition (1995) #1
- Youngblood (1995) #1-10 & 14 (Sep 1995 – Dec 1996)
- Youngblood GT Interactive Ultra Game Players Special Edition (1998) #1
- Youngblood/X-Force (1996) #1 & X-Force/Youngblood (1996) #1 (Jul – Aug 1996)
- Extremely Youngblood (1996) #1 (Sept 1996)
- Youngblood (1992) #1-10 & 0 (Apr 1992 – Dec 1994)
- Maximum Press / Awesome Entertainment (1997 – 1998)
- Youngblood Super Special (1997) #1 (Winter 1997)
- Judgment Day (May – Oct 1997 & March 1998)
- Judgment Day (1997) Alpha, Omega, #3 [AKA Final Judgment], & Sourcebook
- Judgment Day: Aftermath (1998) #1 [AKA #4]
- Awesome Holiday Special (1997) #1 AKA Youngblood Holiday Special (Dec 1997)
- Youngblood Special Exclusive Edition (1997) #1+ (Dec 1997)
- Youngblood (1998) #1-2 (Feb 1998 & Aug 1998)
- Alan Moore’s Awesome Universe Handbook (1999) #1 (April 1999)
- Awesome Adventures (1999) #1 (Aug 1999)
- Arcade Comics (2002 – 2004)
- Youngblood: Genesis (2003) #1-2 (Jul 2003 & Mar 2004)
- Youngblood: Bloodsport (2003) #1-2 (July 2002, 2003, & 2004)
- Youngblood: Imperial (2004) #1 (June 2004)
- Return to Image Comics (2008 – 2017)
- Youngblood (2008) #1-9 (Jan 2008 – Jun 2009)
- Youngblood (2012) #71-78 (May 2012 – Jul 2013)
- Youngblood (2017) #1-11 (May 2017 – May 2018)
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Youngblood (1992) #1-10 & 0 (Apr 1992 – Dec 1994)
Image’s launch book! While people now often associate Spawn with being the first Image title, Youngblood was the first of their original seven ongoing books from the six co-founders to be released.
Prior to the debut of Image Comics, Liefeld teased the existence of Youngblood in a handbook-style entry in Megaton Comics Explosion #1. Megaton #8 featured an ad for an impending story of the team, but the publisher went out of business before it could be printed.
#0: Released between issues #3-4, but this issue shows an earlier mission in 1988 and then flashes forward to Shaft’s first meeting with the team. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#0+1: Youngblood Maximum Collection (2006 hardcover, ISBN unknown / 2006 paperback, ISBN unknown – Amazon / eBay)
#1: Image Firsts: Youngblood (2010) reprints this issue with revised art and a new script.
#1-4: Youngblood (1992 paperback, ISBN unknown)
[Single Issues: Amazon: 1, 2, 3, 4 / eBay]
#1-5: Youngblood [Remastered] (2008 hardcover, ISBN 978-1582408583 – Amazon / eBay)
This includes remastered art and rescripting of the first five issues.
WildCATs (1992) #2-4: See Guide to WildCATs (eventually). The full team appears here to face off against WildCATs sometime during or after their first arc.
Splitting Image (1993) #1-2 was a parody title that included non-continuity versions of Youngblood. Reprinted as Splitting Image 80-Page Giant (2017) #1
Around this time, Youngblood appears as part of the Image/Valiant crossover Deathmate in Deathmate (1993) Prologue & Red.
#6 was reprinted with modifications as Youngblood GT Interactive Ultra Game Players Special Edition (1998) #1
#5: A “flipbook” issue paired with Brigade #4. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#6-8 & 10: Youngblood: Baptism of Fire! (1996 paperback, ISBN 978-1887279178 – Amazon / eBay)
Collects Youngblood (1992) #6-10, Team Youngblood (1993) #9-11 and the Troll story from Image Zero (1993) #0 (which it inserts into issue #9). Contains extra story pages. Issues #6-7 are a direct crossover from to Team Youngblood (1993) #10-11.
#6: Collected in “Baptism of Fire,” above. Team Youngblood (1993) #9 leads in to this issue. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#7: Collected in “Baptism of Fire,” above. Continues plots from Spawn (1993) #23. Says it continues Team Youngblood (1993) #11, but the next issue says it continues to Team Youngblood #10 (they probably have them reversed)! [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#8: Collected in “Baptism of Fire,” above. Says it continues Team Youngblood (1993) #10, but the prior issue says it continues to Team Youngblood #11 (they probably have them reversed)! [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#9: Not collected. Part of Image X Month, this was drawn by Shadowhawk’s Jim Valentino and is not considered part of regular Youngblood continuity. In exchange, Liefeld scripted and drew ShadowHawk (1992) #0. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#10: Collected in “Baptism of Fire,” above. A prelude to Extreme Sacrifice, though it is not officially part of the event. Continued in the event. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Also in this period, the team appears in The Savage Dragon (1992) #3, Supreme (1992) #0-2, 11, & 23, Spawn (1992) #13, The Pact (1994) #2, Violator (1994) #2-3, NewMen (1994) #8
Youngblood: Strikefile (1993) #1-11 (Apr 1993 – Feb 1995)
This book launched as an anthology title printed as a flipbook, with one story on each side. It gave up the flipbook format after issue #3.
#1-3: Not collected. This first trio of issues feature Diehard drawn by Rob Liefeld and Chapel drawn by Jae Lee. The Superpatriot feature continues to his own series from Erik Larsen. [Single Issues: Amazon: 1, 2, 3/ eBay]
#4: Not collected. A one-shot Shaft, Badrock, & Diehard team-up [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#5-6: Not collected. A two-part Badrock A-story. #5 has a Combat B-story, #6 a Masada B-story [Single Issues: Amazon: 5, 6 / eBay]
#7: Not collected. A pair of one-shots for Die Hard and Troll [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#8: Not collected. One-shot stories of Crypt, Dutch, & Shaft. The cover proclaims “Extreme Sacrifice Continues” though this is not an official chapter of the crossover. The Crypt story says it continues to Bloodstrike #16, which is actually a prelude issue and not part of the actual crossover. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#9-11: Not collected. A Cougar story runs across all three issues. Issues #9-10 lead with a two-part Knightsabre story. Issue #11 leads with a brief Chapel story that acts as Chapter 0 of Extreme Sacrifice; see Team Youngblood below for a full reading order. [Single Issues: Amazon: 9, 10, 11 / eBay]
Youngblood Battlezone (1993) #1-2 (May 1993 & July 1994)
This is not a narrative comic. It’s a handbook of the team’s characters, equipment, vehicles, and locations. Issue #2 is sometimes notated in Roman numerals as “II” per its cover.
#1-2: Not collected [Single Issues: Amazon / eBay]
Youngblood Yearbook (1993) #1 (Jul 1993)
This story picks up some plots from Strikefile, above, and acts as a prologue to Team Youngblood, below.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Team Youngblood (1993) #1-22 (Sept 1993 – Apr 1996)
This title begins with a focus on the “away team” led by Sentinel. The series begins after the story with Giger in Strikefile concludes.
#1-3: Not collected. Issue #3 features Spawn on the opening page, who gives the recap of the prior issue. Prophet and Savage Dragon also cameo. [Single Issues: Amazon: 1, 2, 3 / eBay]
#4-5: Not collected. Includes the backup “Tales of Team Youngblood: The Coming of Cougar!” [Single Issues: Amazon: 4, 5 / eBay]
#6: Not collected. Issue #6 contains Part 2 of a back-up introductory story to Art Thibert’s “Black & White.” [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Black & White Reading Order: Supreme (1992) #10, Team Youngblood (1993) #6, Prophet (1993) #4, Team Youngblood (1993) #7, Brigade (1993) #8, Bloodstrike (1993) #9, Supreme (1992) #11, Team Youngblood (1993) #8, Prophet (1993) #5.
#7-8: Not collected. Extreme Prejudice [Single Issues: Amazon: 7, 8 / eBay]
Extreme Prejudice Reading Order: Team Youngblood (1993) #7, Brigade (1993) #8, Bloodstrike (1993) #9, Supreme (1992) #11, Team Youngblood (1993) #8, Brigade (1993) #9, Bloodstrike (1993)#10
#9-11: Youngblood: Baptism of Fire! (1996 paperback, ISBN 978-1887279178 – Amazon / eBay)
Collects Youngblood (1992) #6-10, Team Youngblood (1993) #9-11 and the Troll story from Image Zero (1993) #0 (which it inserts into issue #9). Contains extra story pages. Issue #9 refers to Youngblood (1992) #6, but doesn’t directly cross over into it. However, issues #10-11 are a direct crossover from Youngblood (1992) #6-7 [Single Issues: Amazon: 9, 10, 11 / eBay]
#12-13: Not collected. [Single Issues: Amazon: 12, 13 / eBay]
#14: Not collected. “Riptide Exposed” continues to NewMen #8 see Guide to NewMen (eventually) and also to Riptide (1995), below. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#15: Not collected. “New Blood,” continues from NewMen #8; see Guide to NewMen (eventually) [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#16: Not collected. An unusual prose issue, with text running alongside pin-up images. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#17: Extreme Sacrifice (1995 paperback, ISBN 978-1887279062 – Amazon / eBay)
[Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Extreme Sacrifice Reading Order: The numbering of this crossover is confusing, as some issues are marked as a “Prelude” or “Epilogue” but are also labeled as “Part 1.” This collects Extreme Sacrifice (1995) #1 AKA Prelude, Supreme (1992) #23, Bloodstrike (1993) #18, Brigade (1993) #16, NewMen (1994) #10, Team Youngblood (1993) #17, Prophet (1993) #10, Extreme Sacrifice (1995) #2. House ads for the crossover list Youngblood: Strikefile (1993) #11 as “Part 0” but have it at the end of the reading order though it ends with the words “and so it begins.”
#18-20: Not collected [Single Issues: Amazon: 18, 19, 20 / eBay]
#21: Not collected. Part 3 of Rage of Angels. This says it continues in MaxiMage #4, but Glory #10 also comes before that issue. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Rage of Angels Reading Order: Angela/Glory: Rage of Angels (1996) #1, Youngblood (1995) #6, Team Youngblood (1993) #21, Glory (1995) #10, MaxiMage (1995) #4, and an epilogue in Glory/Angela: Angels in Hell (1996) #1
#22: Not collected. Part 4 of Shadowhunt, concludes in New Man (1996) #4. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Shadowhunt Reading Order: Shadowhunt Special (1996) #1, Chapel (vol2) (1995) #7, Youngblood (1995) #7, Team Youngblood (1993) #22, New Man (1996) #4
Bloodpool (1995) #1-4 & Special (Aug – Nov 1995 & Mar 1996)
This follows the stories of potential recruits in the wake of Extreme Sacrifice.
#1-4: Bloodpool (1995 paperback, ISBN 978-1887279192 – Amazon / eBay)
#1-4: [Single Issues: Amazon: 1, 2, 3, 4 / eBay]
Special: [Single Issues: Amazon / eBay]
Riptide (1995) #1-2 (Sep – Oct 1995)
This picks up after Riptide is kicked out of Youngblood in Team Youngblood (1993) #14
#1-2: Not collected [Single Issues: eBay]
Vogue (1995) #1-3 (Oct – Dec 1995)
This mini-series wraps up before Rage of Angels and Youngblood (1995) #5
#1-3: Not collected [Single Issues: eBay]
Youngblood Collector’s Edition (1995) #1
Written by Eric Stephenson with art by Todd Nauck. This was distributed with “Bend-Ems” Bendable Collectable Figures and is likely a reprint, but I’m not certain of which issue.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Youngblood (1995) #1-10 & 14 (Sep 1995 – Dec 1996)
Issues #10 and #14 printed by Maximum Press (rather than Image Comics). Also, note there are no issues #11-13. Issue #14 is completely silent on the matter, and it ends with “To Be Concluded” although there is no next issue!
(We can fan-canon this by saying that Youngblood/X-Force, X-Force/Youngblood, and Extremely Youngblood are those three issues – and, the timeline does line up, since issue #10 specifically teases the inter-company crossover.)
#1-2: Not collected [Single Issues: Amazon: 1, 2 / eBay]
#3: Not collected. Part of Babewatch, an indirect crossover (though this story does continue in Glory (1995) #8. Glory (and most of the other issues) ends simply by teasing the impending Extreme Destroyer. Also, see Guide to Prophet (eventually). [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Babewatch included Chapel (Vol. 2) (1995) #4, Glory (1995) #8, NewMen (1994) #20, Prophet Babewatch Special (1995) #1, Supreme (1992) #33, and Youngblood (1995) #3
#4: Not collected. Part of Extreme Destroyer [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Extreme Destroyer Reading Order: Extreme Destroyer (1996) Prologue, Maximage (1995) #2, New Man (1996) #1, Youngblood (1995) #4, Glory (1995) #9, Knightstrike (1996) #1, Supreme (1992) #35, New Force (1996) #1, Extreme Destroyer (1996) Epilogue
#5: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#6: Not collected. Rage of Angels, Part 2. Also, see Guide to Angela or Guide to Glory (eventually). [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Rage of Angels Reading Order: Angela/Glory: Rage of Angels (1996) #1, Youngblood (1995) #6, Team Youngblood (1993) #21, Glory (1995) #10, MaxiMage (1995) #4, and an epilogue in Glory/Angela: Angels in Hell (1996) #1
#7: Not collected. Shadowhunt, Part 3. Also, see Guide to Shadowhawk (eventually) [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Shadowhunt Reading Order: Shadowhunt Special (1996) #1, Chapel (vol2) (1995) #7, Youngblood (1995) #7, Team Youngblood (1993) #22, New Man (1996) #4
#8-9: Not collected [Single Issues: Amazon: 8, 9 / eBay]
#10: Not collected. This issue explicitly ends with a hint of a coming conflict with Mojo and continues to Youngblood/X-Force, below. [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
#11-13: Never published! However, these are effectively Youngblood/X-Force (1996) #1, X-Force/Youngblood (1996) #1, Extremely Youngblood (1996) #1
#14: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon / eBay]
Also in this period, the team appears in Glory & Friends Christmas Special (1995) #1, Prophet (1995) #6-7, The Dragon (1996) #4-5, Shattered Image (1996) #2, New Man (1996) #1-3
Youngblood/X-Force (1996) #1 & X-Force/Youngblood (1996) #1 (Jul – Aug 1996)
These issues continue from Youngblood (1995) #10 and tell a single continuous story of the two teams (plus some guest X-Men) uniting to fight Mojo.
Youngblood/X-Force: Released by Extreme Studios with three covers. [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
X-Force/Youngblood: Released by Marvel. [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Extremely Youngblood (1996) #1 (Sept 1996)
A one-shot of a young Youngblood team, in the vein of X-babies.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Youngblood at Maximum Press & Awesome Entertainment
Youngblood Super Special (1997) #1 (Winter 1997)
This Maximum Press one-shot story was written by Eric Stephenson with pencils by Chris Sprouse. The story is captioned, “A Tale of Youngblood Past,” though it includes some recognizable characters, like Riptide.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Judgment Day (1997) Alpha, Omega, #3 [AKA Final Judgment], & Sourcebook &
Judgment Day: Aftermath (1998) #1 [AKA #4] (May – Oct 1997 & March 1998)
This event book was published by Awesome Entertainment as an introduction to their new era of publishing the former Extreme imprint books. Issue #1 was released prior to Supreme #50. Aftermath is sometimes referred to as issue #4. Shaft’s appearance here is just prior to the Holiday Special story.
#1-4: Judgment Day (2003 paperback, ISBN 978-0974166452 – Amazon / Digital / eBay)
Collects Judgment Day (1997) Alpha, Omega, #3, the “Youngblood Prologue” story from Awesome Holiday Special (1997) #1, and Judgment Day: Aftermath (1998) #1. Also includes character bios that are different than the ones in Sourcebook.
#1 AKA Alpha: [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
#2 AKA Omega: [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
#3 AKA Final Judgment: [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Aftermath (1998) #1 AKA #4: [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Sourcebook: Not collected. Includes a brief, six-page prologue story that does not appear to be a part of the paperback, plus character files. [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Awesome Holiday Special (1997) #1 AKA Youngblood Holiday Special (Dec 1997)
Though this issue is bannered with the title “Awesome Holiday Special,” it features a massive Youngblood logo on the cover. It includes short stories of Fighting American, Shaft, Coven, and Kaboom.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: eBay]
Youngblood Special Exclusive Edition (1997) #1+ (Dec 1997)
Contains two Alan Moore stories about the team: a four-page “A Brief History of Twilight” and “Youngblood Prologue featuring Shaft” (reprinted from Awesome Holiday Special #1).
#1+: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Youngblood (1998) #1-2 (Feb 1998 & Aug 1998)
This comic continues to Awesome Adventures (1999) #1, below, also by Alan Moore and Steve Skroce.
#1-2: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Alan Moore’s Awesome Universe Handbook (1999) #1 (April 1999)
This contains Moore’s notes for the Youngblood relaunch.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Awesome Adventures (1999) #1 (Aug 1999)
This issue ends by saying “Next: Young Guns” and teases an issue #2 upcoming in September. It was never released.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Youngblood at Arcade Comics (2002 – 2004)
Youngblood: Genesis (2003) #1-2 (Jul 2003 & Mar 2004)
A relaunch as plotted by Kurt Busiek over a decade prior and written by Brandon Thomas. Liefeld and Arcade comics were unable to continue the series, as Busiek’s original plots involved Image characters who could no longer appear given the change in publisher.
#1-2: Not collected [Single Issues: Amazon, eBay]
Youngblood: Bloodsport (2003) #1-2 (July 2002, 2003, & 2004)
Written by Mark Millar with art by Rob Liefeld, this issue ends with the team kidnapped to face off in a tournament together. Issue #1 has an ad for the Genesis series as “on sale now.”
Issue #2 – also known as the “Wizard World Bootleg” is by far the most-difficult of all the issues in this guide to track down! It was only ever issued as a convention preview at Wizard World Los Angeles, which means at best only a few thousand copies exist. You can tell you’ve got the right issue if a woman in a white shirt (Suprema) is floating on the cover holding Twilight in one hand and Diehard in the other with the word “Bootleg” overlaid on the logo “Wizard World Los Angeles” logo on the right hand side.
2002 Convention Preview Edition (b&w): Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
#1 / 2003: Not collected. This had at least 6 covers, if not more. [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
#2 / 2004 [AKA Wizard World Bootleg]: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Youngblood: Imperial (2004) #1 (June 2004)
Written by Robert Kirkman, creator of Walking Dead and Invincible, and art by Marat Mychaels. In an end-note, Liefeld notes that he recruited a different artist so that this book could be ongoing despite his current commitments to the Bloodsport title as well as his relaunch of X-Force for Marvel. However, no second issue ever arrived.
#1: Not collected [Single Issue: Amazon, eBay]
Youngblood Returns to Image Comics (2008 – 2018)
Youngblood (2008) #1-9 (Jan 2008 – Jun 2009)
A relaunch penned by Joe Casey which continues from where the original continuity left off. However, Casey’s run ends abruptly with issue #8, with Liefeld taking over for just one issue in #9 before the title ends on a cliffhanger with no resolution.
#1-4: Vol. 1: Focus Tested (2008 paperback, ISBN 978-1582409450 – Amazon / eBay)
#5-9: Vol. 2: Voted Off The Island (2010 paperback, ISBN 978-1607060031 – Amazon / eBay)
Also in this period, the team appears in Invincible (2003) #60-65, Image United (2009) #1-3, Bomb Queen VI (2009) #2, ShadowHawk (2010) #5
Youngblood (2012) #71-78 (May 2012 – Jul 2013)
This relaunched with script by John McLaughlin and art from Jon Malin. It continues the original numbering of the series and continues the timeline the present day, including many members of the original cast standing alongside President Obama. It ended on a cliffhanger with no resolution.
How did they arrive at 71? The original 1992 series had #1-10, the 1995 issues had #1-14 (even if #11-13 didn’t technically exist), even if we’re excedingly generation the Awesome/Arcade years only included 10 issues, and the 2008 revival had 9. That’s only 43 issues, so clearly they’ve decided to include another 33 from Team and Strikefile but exclude some of the Awesome/Arcade specials.
#71-78: Not collected. [Amazon Single Issues: 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78] [eBay Single Issues]
Youngblood (2017) #1-11 (May 2017 – May 2018)
A relaunch by writer Chad Bowers and artist Jim Towe, who revisit the team’s original continuity 25 years later. Several familiar characters recur, including Shaft, Badrock, DieHard and Vogue. This is surprisingly new-reader friendly, and easy to pick up even if you don’t know the original comics. Unfortunately, it was cancelled mid-run and the story never continued.
#1-6: Vol. 1: Reborn (2017 paperback, ISBN 978-1534303430 – Amazon / eBay)
#7-11: Vol. 2: Rebranded (2018 paperback, ISBN 978-1534308237 – Amazon / eBay)
A cancelled collection of the unreleased issues #12-18 was solicited as Volume 3: Blood War (ISBN 978-1534310278)
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Would love to have seen the Blood Wars Rob talked about for Vol 5.
I really wish we got to see more complete thoughts in Youngblood. I always say: Rob is an amazing idea guy.
Any chance there’s a Bedrock order lying around?
Not yet, but it’s on the list!