Youngblood

:Youngblood is also the name of a 1986 movie starting Rob Lowe, and a 1995 punk film by Harris Smith

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Youngblood - Rob Lowe - Harris Smith

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Youngblood was a superhero team, and eponymous comic book, created by Rob Liefeld for Image Comics in 1992. Frequently mocked for the low quality of its art and writing, for its frequent lateness, and for its unnecessary graphic violence and foul language http://img114.exs.cx/img114/2947/bloodsport24up.jpg, Youngblood has often been portrayed as the exemplar of everything that went wrong with the comic book industry in the 1990s.

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Superhero - Comic book - Rob Liefeld - Image Comics - 1992 - 1990

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The members of Youngblood included Shaft, an archer whose bow used magnets to propel its arrow instead of a string; Badrock, a teenager transformed into a living block of stone (originally named "Bedrock" until Liefeld faced legal action from the owners of The Flintstones); Vogue, a Russian fashion model with purple-and-chalk-white skin; and Chapel, a government agent and trained assassin.

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Archer - The Flintstones

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In interviews, Liefeld has explained that Youngblood was partially based on a 1991 plan of his for a new Teen Titans series, possibly titled "Team Titans," to be co-written with Marv Wolfman. Liefeld and managing editor Dick Giordano "couldn't make the numbers work," however, and Liefeld merged his Titans ideas into a new creator-owned project, Youngblood, to be published by the newly-founded Image Comics. According to Liefeld, "Shaft was intended to be Speedy. Vogue was a new Harlequin design, Combat was a Kh'undian warrior circa the Legion of Super Heroes, ditto for Photon and Die Hard was a Star Labs android. I forgot who Chapel was supposed to be." http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/2005/06/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-2.html Such re-using of old ideas is not unprecedented for Liefeld; see e.g. Fighting American.

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Teen Titans - Marv Wolfman - Dick Giordano - Speedy - Harlequin - Legion of Super Heroes - Star Labs - Fighting American

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In 1998, Liefeld hired Alan Moore to write new issues of Youngblood; however, despite Moore's well-publicized plans for at least twelve issues, only two issues were ever printed and the third issue was published in another book called "Awesome Adventures".

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1998 - Alan Moore

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In March 2004, Liefeld hired Mark Millar to write new issues of Youngblood (Bloodsport); as of December 2004, only one issue has been printed.

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2004 - Mark Millar - As of December 2004

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In 1993, Liefeld solicited Youngblood stories from Kurt Busiek, who plotted three issues of a projected four-issue series, Youngblood: Genesis. This was never produced; however, in 2004, Liefeld began soliciting orders for Youngblood: Genesis, with Busiek credited as the writer. Busiek publicly denounced this, since he never wrote any full scripts, only detailed plots for three issues and ideas for a fourth; Brandon Thomas scripted the issues. Busiek has asked that his fans not buy the series, which was officially cancelled after 2 issues and many delays; Liefeld says he plans to re-launch it soon, and a trade paperback of the series has been solicited for 2005.

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1993 - Kurt Busiek - 2004 - Brandon Thomas - Trade paperback

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In 2004, Robert Kirkman began writing a new series, Youngblood: Imperial, but left after one issue due to his busy schedule. Fabian Nicieza was slated to take over, but so far issues #2-3 have yet to appear, despite solicitations.

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Robert Kirkman - Fabian Nicieza

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In 2005, Liefeld announced that Joe Casey would be re-assembling and re-scripting the original Youngblood miniseries into a more coherent and sophisticated story, to be titled Youngblood Maximum.

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