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Rob Liefeld To Launch Something New Called Last Blood

Earlier today, Rob Liefeld posted on TwitterX, "Get ready for this." Posting the following logo for something called Last Blood. 

Earlier today, Rob Liefeld posted on TwitterX, "Get ready for this." Posting the following logo for something called Last Blood.

He's mentioned that the project exists on his Robservations podcast before, but this was the first visual. He confirms that it is something he has been working on the side for a while, and that after finishing the first issue, he made it the second issue, so that when the actual fifrst issue comes out, the second will only be six weeks behind.

Rob Liefeld best kjnown for his role in creating characters Deadpool, Cable and Domino, and the team X-Force. In 1992, he co-founded Image Comics, a creator-owned publisher that began with Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.

Rob Liefeld has published a fair few other titles with Blood in the titles, including Bloodstrike and BloodWulf, but the one that most folk will bring to mind is indeed Youngblood. The launch book for Image Comics by Rob Liefeld and Hank Kanalz, it recently it emerged that Liefeld had no ownership of Youngblood, and hadn't had for decades. That it was part of the collateral for investment setting up Awesome Comics with Jeph Loeb, Scott Rosenberg and John Hyde in 2000, the rights to the characters involved were split between the three, Rosenberg getting Youngblood – though he was happy for Liefeld to continue publishing Youngblood comics and act in public as the owner. But in 2018, that broke down somewhat, and Rosenberg sold the rights to Rip Media and Glenn Eggert, who then worked with Andrew Rev, the former owner of comics publisher Comico, and who was launching Terrific Publication to publish Youngblood and Supreme – but never actually did. With Liefeld being rather opposed to working with Rev. After reading this interview summation, you may draw your own opinion.

And that was basically the last we heard of it. With Liefeld launching something like Last Blood, it might suggest he may be revisiting that kind of comic. Maybe the "Last" may reflect the recent Turtles series, Last Ronin. Liefeld has a couple of Marvel Comics projects this year, there is still The Defiants from a couple of years ago that we are waiting on, And of course there is his Brigade Kickstarter from over ten years that a number of donors still appear to be waiting on.

So why the finality from Last Blood? We will wait to find out, and while we wait, we can listen to Liefeld's podcast, where he talks a little about Last Blood. Oh, and his tweet from last August asking if IDW had announced Jason Aaron on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles yet…

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