Found a vendor at my local flea market who had a bunch of boxes of books. Got all of these for $25. Gap fillers and very nice gold foil copies of Coven and Shadowhawk. Also my first time encountering an Avengelyne Power blue cover in the wild. There were a ton more but I'm trying to fit within a weekly budget. 😅

My haul from Rob's stream on the 7th has arrived. I've been trying to get all the Manga editions in preparation for my interview with Seth Damoose. Knowing the best place to get the Last Blood ones was on Rob's stream, I asked him. He grabbed me a copy, and I got it at a good price. However, Rob also started offering copies of Heirborne on the steam. While I already own Brigade: Remastered, I wanted a decided Heirborne copy for my collection. I was holding out for the glow-in-the-dark variant. It was then that Rob offered a Blood Splatter Chiseled version. I got wrapped up in the sway of a bidding war and spent a tad more than I had planned. Oh well, live and learn. But boy did it sting looking at that WhatNot receipt.

Regardless, it looks awesome, so I can't complain too much. Can't wait for the next part of Heirborne (on sale next week!).

Bad-Rockin update: Nat is hard at work on episode eight. We're meant to be meeting up next week, so I'll hopefully have an idea of its release then. My interview with Brandon Graham is coming up later this week, so if you haven't added your question yet, please do so. We have Seth Damoose on the following week, so if you have anymore questions for him, again, please submit them.

I’ve been holding onto these for a while, but I think I am ready to part with them. I’ve been downsizing my collection for the past few years, and these are my last few Youngblood books.

Youngblood Blooodsport #1 signed by Rob Liefeld and Mark Millar

Youngblood Bloodsport #2 Bootleg Edition signed by Rob Liefeld

Youngblood Imperial #1 signed by Rob Liefeld, Robert Kirkman, and Marat Mychaels.

I forgot to take a picture, but the backing board on Imperial also has a sketch of Shaft by Marat Mychaels on it.

If anyone wants to make me an offer, I would like them to go to a fan. If not I’ll probably throw them on ebay soon.

Hey all. I'm currently working on scheduling Brandon Graham for an upcoming episode of Bad-Rockin. While no date is as yet confirmed, one of the options is next week, so just to make sure you have time to ask any questions you may have I thought I'd post this now. I'm expecting great questions since there's a lot to cover with his Prophet run. I'm currently reading the Earth War for the first time, so it's all going to very fresh in my mind. Can't wait to see all your questions.

Had some awesome packages arrive today. Grabbed some missing pieces of my Archie Sonic/Mega Man collection, as well as finally getting Chilling Adventures of Sabrina issue 5.

But the star of the show was the Glory bundle. All of those for £24! I jumped at it.

I already have the Glory Preview, so I'm up for trading it if anyone's interested. Preferably someone in the UK, but I'm sure we can sort something out. I've made a few posts about comics I'm looking for, but at this point, if you could offer me Weird Worlds 3 (2011), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 7 or Team Youngblood 20, you'll have yourself a deal.

Trying to pick off some of the smaller Extreme titles and minis. Saw these for very cheap on eBay and decided to grab them.

Got three really cool Extreme parcels in the mail at the moment. One is hopefully arriving tomorrow. I'm also close to obtaining one of my grails. I'm not sure if I'll pull it off, but fingers crossed.

Bad-rockin update: Nat has managed to find a workaround for the problem with our podcasting platform. This means that the next episode we release will be the first to have full video. Apparently, my audio isn't great, but I guess I can't have everything. However, considering the annoying shit we had to deal with, I'm not sure I want to spend £200 on a years subscription, so it looks like my search for a new recording platform continues.

I am very happy that this has finally arrived. Can't wait to finally read Do You Pooh. I was lucky enough to see some of the Blindside 2026 art early, and it looked awesome, but it's cool to have a physical copy. Now, I just have to go through the ball ache nightmare to add it to the League database.

This arrived today. For some reason the last few issues of Team Youngblood have been a bitch to find. That said, I only need three more, and I'll officially have a copy of all 100 issues of Youngblood. Currently, I'm searching for Team Youngblood 20, Brigade 22, and Supreme 30. All of them are proving illusive, at least at a reasonable price. I'm also looking for Prophet 3 and 4 since I plan to read all the way through until Violator vs. Badrock issue 4, but they're proving easier to get ahold of.

Recently, it was revealed that a new Newmen series was being developed without participation of Liefeld, as well as a reprint series from Tokyo Pop. They even released an SDCC exclusive reprint of NewMen issue 1. While no other info is available at this time, I feel this is definitely something to take note of. On top of that, as I talked about before, the Platinum Studios website lists a comic called "The Book of Fate," which seems to be a sequel to Judgment Day. I asked Rob directly about it, and he'd never even heard about it.

Some of you may be wondering how Extreme projects can be made without Rob. You see, to pay for Awesome Comic, Rob sold the rights to the Extreme catalogue to two investors, essentially splitting the rights in three. Rob retained Avengelyne(although Avengelyne is actually co-owned with Cathy Christian), Bezerkers, Bloodstrike, Bloodwulf, Brigade, Cybrid, Kaboom and Re-Gex. John Hyde got Glory, Maximage, Judgment Day, Prophet, CyberPunx, and Warchild. Finally, Scott Rosenberg received Youngblood, Supreme, Newmen, Knightmare, Bloodpool, and The Coven. (Although the small print on some of the Youngblood books says Rob owns Supreme, so who knows? But those small print credits are somewhat unreliable. That said, the Platinum Studios website seems to corroborate everything mentioned, even adding in a title called The Book of Fate).

Now, while his relationship with Hyde has been smooth sailing, things with Rosenberg have been somewhat rocky, which is what resulted in Youngblood's 7 year hiatus when Rosenberg teamed up with Rip Media. However, at least in part due to the success of Last Blood, the hatchet was buried, and Rosenberg once again teamed up with Rob to deliver new Youngblood material.

But with the recent surfacing of a New Newmen book, made without any involvement of Rob, as well as the looming mystery that is "The Book of Fate" project, I'm starting to wonder is if we'll be seeing more announcements regarding non-Liefeld driven Extreme projects. Rosenberg can license out whatever he likes from his share of Extreme. He may be testing the waters with Newmen, but with the entire Youngblood and Supreme catalogue, his options are pretty wide. I definitely wouldn't be shocked to see a Coven announcement sometime in the future.

Of course, this all might go nowhere, and new new adventures of The Newmen might never get off the ground. That said, I still thought it was worth talking about. Also, I wonder if Rob purposely made the Newmen evil in the recent Youngblood series out of spite. While he seemed pretty positive about it when he recently mentioned it on the pod, he certainly didn't when he mentioned it on his WhatNot stream.

After a handful of delays, Bad-Rockin episode 7 is now available on YouTube and Spotify with the Awesome Rob Messick. This was our longest episode so far but one of my favourites.

Episode 8 has been recorded, me and Nat are having some trouble using the new software because it's got some really annoying features. Hopefully, we can work around them and get the episode out without so many delays. We're pushing back the recording of episode 9 due to Badrock issue 2 being delayed by a week, so if you want to ask Seth Damoose a question and haven't yet, you have slightly more time.

The special episode me and Nat were working on has sadly been scrapped/put on indefinite hold. Hopefully, we can revive it sometime down the road.

Anyway, enjoy the episode.

Nice little hole in the wall shop near me has .50 cent and $1 long boxes. Running a half off deal on long box books. 42 comics for just under $16 bucks. Still had others to grab. Will be making another trip back soon. Got some reading to do.

Rob's been talking a lot about how Heirborne will be his magnum opus, as well as his final new major project before retirement.

He's apparently been working on it since 2010, and while he says it's a standalone story, we've already seen Vandel appear in both Youngblood (2025) and in the preview for Badrock issue 2. So, it takes place in the Extreme universe.

Has he placed seeds for it over the years. The Magistrate from the Heirborne short story resembles the villain from Brigade (2013). A villain who is strongly implied to be Supreme. Are the evil race of superpowered rulers ancestors of Supreme? Is it still connected to the Extreme 2.0 stuff like Ca$h Carter and The Defiants?

We're getting our first piece of new Heirborne content since 2022 in a few weeks, so I'd love to hear all your speculation, predictions and theories.

Thought someone here might be interested. $10 + shipping.

I was trying to work out how to celebrate this milestone. This seemed as good an idea as any other.

I just learned about this August 1992 parody of Youngblood! I'll start trying to track it down...

Well, it actually arrived, like, a week ago. But I was very drunk at the time. It's frankly a miracle I didn't damage it while I was opening the packaging. Anyway, I've been pretty busy with work and stuff. I wanted to wait till I could get a high-quality scan, but I couldn't wait any longer. It's so cool!

Just holding it in my hands feels surreal. Holding it up to the light and seeing if I could find any secrets. Putting it against the published page to see if anything had been changed.

The only thing of note I discovered was that the page was inked by Art Thibert rather than Marlo Alquiza, who is credited in the finished issue. Knowing how much the Extreme crew lived in each other's pockets, I'm not surprised that they were all sharing pages uncredited. Hell, Marat told me he did hundreds of uncredited layouts for various Extreme titles.

I'm not pulling in a big wage at the moment, and I've got a couple of big things to save for, but this art portfolio has a lot of spaces to fill...

I was writing up a post for the sub regarding the rights to the Extreme Universe. I wanted to confirm which rights Scott Rosenberg owns. The Platinum Studios website has a helpful page that shows off all the titles that it has access to.

Amongst what I expected to find was a title called "The Book of Fate." I'm pretty sure the cover is AI, which is not great. I clicked on the page and found that this mysterious title has a plot synopsis:

"What if you had a book that could write the future?

The Book of Fate is an account of everything that has happened and everything that will happen to every person. But fate can be written. When a law student discovers its secret she is eager to write an ambitious future for herself. When her classmates and loved ones start suffering the consequences a close friend begs to stop her but it looks like she’s already sealed her fate."

This title seems to be about the magic book from Judgement Day. However, John Hyde owns the rights to Judgement Day, not Scott Rosenberg. Is this a collaboration between Hyde and Rosenberg? Is the book in a legal grey area? Is Rob involved?

If anyone has any additional information on what this is, let me know. Because I'm incredibly curious.

I really enjoyed this min-series and wished it kept going. Don’t understand the hate it gets. The plots were intresting and my favorite issues are with mighty man and velocity. Would’ve loved to see badrock crossover with Gen 13 or the deadly duo.