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In a recent Robservations podcast interview between Image Comics partner Robert Kirkman and Image Comics' founder Rob Liefeld, that is suddenly being talked about a lot, at least one bit of it, Robert Kirkman citing Absolute Batman for increasing Image Comics sales. But it's also worth looking at a little more context around that[...]

Youngblood #100 by Rob Liefeld is out next month and goes to FOC in a week's time Of late, Image Comics has also started renumbering current published comics wth "legacy" numbers so that a variant cover for Youngblood #4 was also Youngblood #98, and #5 was Youngblood #99 Here are the covers… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item[...]

Youngblood creator Rob Liefeld and artist Seth Damoose of Tales of Mr Rhee and Savant are launching a new Youngblood spinoff with the news series Badrock #1, as part of Image Comics' July 2026 solicits and solicitations "After saving our county, our planet and even, our dimension, Badrock is tasked with saving his most important[...]

Image Comics' July 2026 solicits and solicitations have dropped, leading with Terminal #1, the big superhero launch from Robert Kirkman, Joe Casey, Andy Kubert, David Finch, and Arthur Adams. As well as Rob Liefeld and Seth Damoose launching Youngblood spinoff Badrock #1, the Exquisite Corpses spinoff series Rascal Randy by Tyler Boss and Dylan Burnett, the[...]

Genuinely some of the best spider-man comics you can read." " And Rob Liefeld, whose new podcast is just dropping and has been popping up on Threads, replied with "Hahaha – Bendis directly takes from the Lee/Ditko classics and puts them in a modern setting The credit is due to Lee/Ditko Not the fresh coat of[...]

The Maxx (in that form at least) first appeared in 1993's Darker Image, a black-and-white comic book published by Image Comics alongside founders Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld Jim Lee debuted his and Brendon Choi's character, Deathblow, a bit like The Punisher Rob Liefeld and his character Bloodwulf, a bit like Lobo And from Sam[...]

More tributes have flooded out from other creators, talking about working with him, that I couldn't not do this again, as we heard from the likes of Scott Ian, Joe Rubenstein, J Scott Campbell, Rob Liefeld, Don Chin, William Messner Loebs and many more And we begin at the beginning, as Mage creator Matt Wagner wrote, "He[...]

What works for this comic? And at that point, you've kind of got the cart driving the horse a little bit." #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Chase Variant #1 cover by Bagwell Chase Variant #1 cover by Rob Liefeld Brevoort contrasted that[...]

Get ready for some raw '90s energy as Bloodwulf, the cosmic antihero created by Rob Liefeld for Image Comics, is back This infamous comic book character debuted in the mid-1990s during the height of the Extreme Studios era Known initially as Vaxan, Bloodwulf is a genetically enhanced warrior bound to a mighty sentient sword that[...]

Created by Rob Liefeld (creator of Deadpool) and debuting in Bloodstrike #1 in 1993, the series follows Cabbot as the leader of the elite team They have been brought back to life through a secret program called Project: Born Again, and now have new super-human abilities.  Over the years, Bloodstrike has seen multiple revivals, but fans[...]

in my opinion, there's not one good shot in the whole thing." Well, Rob Liefeld wasn't having any that He posted on X, "Bendis is such a piece When he is an inch of what QT is, maybe he can talk shit" as well as adding "Bendis trashed Avatar far and wide in 2009 Openly mocked[...]

Fewer people buying multiple covers at the higher price." Rob Liefeld of, you know, Deadpool had his own take "So, I can actually speak on this as a retailer as I ordered 1000 copies of Marvel's Deadpool/Batman and sold thru 100% I'm a specialty retailer as I sell autographed copies Definitely not apples to apples, but[...]

Youngblood #1 by Rob Liefeld was Image Comics' most-ordered comic book of November 2025, beating out Transformers #26 Bleeding Cool understands that this was partially achieved by a greater number of retailer-exclusive covers, including a number ordered and directly sold by Rob Liefeld himself, outside of the comic book shops themselves. Image Comics But either way, it[...]

Slade Wilson is Deathstroke, as introduced in New Teen Titans, as a mercenary antagonist, one of Rob Liefeld's favourite comic books when young Deadpool was created by Rob Liefeld for New Mutants, a mercenary antagonist Writer Fabian Nicieza lampshaded this by naming him Wade Wilson And in Deadpool/Batman from Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, they[...]

And he received praise all over, including from these three… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Rob Liefeld says "Dan Mora is so impressive I loved his work on Once & Future, then, admittedly lost track of his career[...]

Rob Liefeld's return to Youngblood next month will feature a black and white edition with grey tones and splashes of red, both on the cover and its interior pages And they will be calling it the Manga edition Will it read right to left? No Will it have the heft of a manga volume? No[...]

Youngblood #1 by Rob Liefeld is published by Image Comics on the fifth of November (remember, remember) It will come polybagged with trading cards, just like X-Force #1 did, but they won't be blind bags And they will come with something else instead At New York Comic Con, Rob Liefeld took to the stage for[...]

The upcoming release of a new Youngblood #1 by Rob Liefeld, on the fifth of November (remember, remember), after he managed to make deals with the current owner of the property, Scott Rosenberg, is coming from Image Comics, and getting a Hollywood Reporter headline for having 27 retailer exclusive covers All in time for his birthday, today! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

I'm not the only one who has heard such, so has a certain Rob Liefeld He seems to suggest a Superman/Spider-Man from DC and a Spider-Man/Superman from Marvel, the latter drawn by Pepe Larraz, Marvel's most in-demand artist right now, after House Of X, X-Men, Inferno, Blood Hunt, Big Game and currently Amazing Spider-Man[...]

Diehard is a prominent member of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood team and first appeared in Image Comics' Youngblood #1 (1992) A government-engineered super-soldier, Diehard is a mysterious figure, often seen as the most physically powerful and stoic member of the group Clad in a sleek, red-and-white cybernetic suit, he's part man, part machine, with the powers[...]

Shaft is one of the core characters from Rob Liefeld's Youngblood, a comic that helped define 1990s superhero style under Image Comics First appearing in Youngblood #1 (1992), Shaft is a former FBI agent named Jeff Terrell who becomes the leader of the government-sponsored super-team He's a skilled archer with Olympic-level athleticism and military training[...]

Last year, Heritage Auctions announced that it would offer for auction the original artwork to New Mutants #98, featuring the first appearance of Deadpool and Domino, pencilled and inked by Rob Liefeld from 1990, and the seller has an asking price of $7.5 million If it sold for that amount, it would become the single[...]

And that's Strobe, formerly of the Mutant Liberation Fault, created by Rob Liefeld for New Mutants. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ X-Men: Age Of Revelation With Chrome, Hellion, Dragoness and Strobe defending the borders of this New Krakoa, by themselves[...]

Rob Liefeld recently fully quit Marvel Comics over a) him and his family not being allowed into the Deadpool And Wolverine premiere after party, but b) not getting an upfront credit for the Deadpool And Wolverine movie as the principal creator of Deadpool Which, you know, is 100% right Marvel Studios could do this –[...]

Rob Liefeld calling for Marvel Comics executives to be fired was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past six years Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip[...]

Rob Liefeld recently posted about quitting Marvel Comics forever after the end of his most recent Deadpool comic book He gave plenty of reasons here But he has more to say, to coincide with his new Robersvations podcast about why the X-Men sucks now "One Year into the most recent re-launch, drowning in canceled titles[...]

Rob Liefeld has decided to revisit and relitigate the early nineties, with the covers for New Mutants which he pencilled and then his fellow Image Comics founder Todd McFarlane inked And which Rob Liefeld then covered up with Tippex and re-inked on the desks at Marvel Comics He posted on social media of this cover…[...]

Rob Liefeld stated that Deadpool Team-Up #5, published by Marvel Comics, was delayed as a result of his own appearance in the comic book That it was held up by editorial because it contained his own likeness, a panel he has already shared He encourages you to grab it, as he doubts it will go back to[...]

This week sees the publication of Rob Liefeld's final comic book for Marvel, Deadpool Team-Up It's already in the back of certain comic book stores, and there's no way for Marvel to stop it now, so in his latest Robservations podcast, Rob Liefeld has decided to tell us that Marvel Comics is broken but suggests[...]

If anyone wants to draw the Atlas Man Of Muscle parody featuring Rob Liefeld and Kevin Feige, go ahead Last year, Bleeding Cool reported on Rob Liefeld's declared decision that first he would no longer work on Deadpool comics after the conclusion of the Deadpool Team Up series out next week Then that he was[...]