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Terrific Production LLC Wants Chris Claremont for New Youngblood, Jim Lee for DC Crossover

Published Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:00:45 -0500

Bleeding Cool has been dutifully following and reporting on the ongoing Twitter exploits of Terrific Production LLC, the publisher owned by Andrew Rev which recently acquired the rights to Youngblood against the wishes of creator Rob Liefeld. Terrific has been looking to recruit comic book creators on Twitter, even offering to take young up-and-comers like Ryan Stegman and turn them into stars. Terrific has even made overtures toward Alan Moore, as well as David Lapham, James Tynion IV, and Evan Dorkin, amongst others. Terrific's most recent attempt to recruit creators online targeted Brian Wood for a series of Youngblood prose novels.

This week, Terrific announced a new Youngblood series in Youngblood Unchained #1, though it doesn't seem they have a creative team yet. To that end, the publisher polled readers and came up with the perfect person for the job: legendary writer Chris Claremont.

#Xmen #ChrisClaremont
WHO WOULD DO THE BEST JOB WRITING YOUNGBLOOD OR SUPREME? =34% of 4 choices

— Terrific Prod. "THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 5, 2019

There's one problem, of course. Claremont is a Marvel exclusive writer, even though the publisher hasn't used him to write an ongoing series since 2014's Nightcrawler. Maybe Rev could buy out his contract?

In other news, Terrific was pleased to learn that DC executive Hank Kanalz began following them on Twitter, which Terrific believes could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

#comicartist #comicbookartist #comicretailer #comicstores
Dear Terrifically Legion and all lurking. I am so very happy that Hank Kanalz SVP of Strategy for DC comics came by and followed. I believe that its a very good sign to have him take a peek what we are doing.

— Terrific Prod. "THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 5, 2019

One which Rev hopes could lead to a crossover with Wildstorm for Youngblood #100 (perhaps Youngblood Unchained will ship with a very advanced shcedule), co-written by Dan Didio and Jim Lee!

I also Hope that he might just say to Jim Lee and Dan Dido that with Terrific Production philosophy " We are all in it together" maybe we should call Andrew and offer to do our Wild Storm property and have Jim and I write that issue as part of Youngblood no. 100. or …

— Terrific Prod. "THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) September 5, 2019

Or maybe "The Great One" Brian Bendis will write it. Might as well shoot for the sky.

Maybe Bendis will ask if Terrific Production will be open to having DC choosing the artist team for convenience like was done on Batman-Grendel and my loyal TTCR's if asked I would say Yes if its great for the FAN's

— Terrific Production LLC "Our Comics will Rock You" (@LlcTerrific) September 5, 2019

But Terrific doesn't want to overstep its boundaries or anything…

Did anyone notice that I did not ask Hank to write a story out of respect since he is an SVP of DC. But I did kind of corner him to agree to treat our Terrific Production comic FANs on an equal footing with Image and DC buyers. I did that only because you love signed comics!

— Terrific Production LLC "Our Comics will Rock You" (@LlcTerrific) September 5, 2019

The saga continues…