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Self Swipe File: Rob Liefeld's X-Force And Bloodstrike

This is the solicited cover for Bloodstrike #35, published online in December 2012 for publication from Image Comics in March 2013…

The series was never published though art from the series was used to illustrate Liefeld's Kickstarter appeal for a Brigade comic which raised $35,000 but still without the promised publication. Currently Rob Liefeld says that, after having to get the issue recoloured after a contre temps with a number of colourists, he is hoping for publication at the end of the month at Las Vegas Comic Con but will guarantee San Diego Comic Con.

But that cover does rather resemble a rejected X-Force cover from October 2010… and example of the three Rs? Reduce, reuse, recycle?

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself? If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website. Thanks to Mike Daniel.

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