Arcade published a few more than 4 issues. They published the two issues of Youngblood: Genesis, one issue of Youngblood: Imperial, two (kind of) issues of Youngblood: Bloodsport, an issue of Suprema: Supreme Sacrifice, and one issue each of Nitrogen and Nitrogen Exteme Forces, which I believe were John Malin's first professional work.
For the record, there is a "Blood Sport" 2 issue, it's an unfinished sort of thing, but...if I remember right it's fully scripted. Worth getting, if you can find it!
I have seen that one floating around a bit, but it seems to be highly elusive. I've learned that most of Liefeld's post-Awesome Entertainment stuff from Arcade and Image are hard to find. Which is your pinup in Imperial?
Man I loved Youngblood, I never even knew these ones existed. And when you mentioned the first one being a year late, all I could think was, did Ethan draw it? Lol
For those that didn't catch it, the "A" in the Arcade logo doubles as a joystick. I used to live in a town with a mall that had an arcade that hung around until the late nineties. It had a few arcade cabinets with joysticks. In fact I was using one in the nineties in my teens when some (bleep) grabbed my (bleep), and I shoved him, and then got banned from the arcade.
@@latch78 😄Before becoming a comics editor, twenty years ago Nellie Wigal was a nude model. No joystick there. I imagine she edited the above comment to remove the word "ass" for both bleeped comments.
Congratulations on tracking these down. This had to have been Rob Liefeld's last of venture capital. It's a bit of a shame he didn't "mend fences" with IMAGE COMICS around this time instead of a decade later. Perhaps he could have gotten further with these stories. Another great review.👍👍
youngblood: bloodsport was so ridiculous and funny that i couldn't be mad at it even if i should have(zombie martin luther king). i was hoping it would continue just to see what kind of madness liefeld and millar were going to unleash next. in terms of art it was some of robs best work on some pages. i'm going to make it a personal mission to track down a copy of it to buy.
Nice video. I love Youngblood. It's one of my all time favorite comic books and Shaft is one of my favorite comic book characters. It's nice to see Youngblood getting so much deserved attention. That being said, I think the blood offerings (see what I did there?) that we got from Arcade comics were some of the weakest. I wasn't really impressed with any of it. Not even Bloodsport really. The idea was cool and the art is incredible, but I didn't like the overall execution. Imo they were trying too hard to be edgy and I had a hard time taking the book seriously because of it. I don't mind sexual content or foul language in a comic, but it was too over the top for me in Bloodsport and it seemed out of place in a Youngblood comic. It felt like it was written by a teenager who just discovered sex and naughty words and they couldn't wait for the opportunity to push their new discovery to the max. Anyway, I could've sworn that 2 issues were published for Bloodsport and I was right!!..........sorta. A rough cut of issues 2 was released and could be purchased at Wizard World Los Angeles back in 2005. I know this for sure because I have a copy. It's not completely finished. Some of it is colored, some is just rough pencils and then there's some script from Millar and character design sketches from Liefeld. Here's a breakdown of the issue....... Shaft and Badrock decide to team up instead of fighting each other. Shaft is on the phone with his lawyer in hopes the he can get them out of the situation they're in when he and Badrock are attacked by Photon. Photon gets the upper hand on Badrock but before he can kill him, Shaft puts two arrows in Photon's chest. Badrock then grabs Photon and throws him into a gasoline truck causing it to explode, killing Photon in the process. Now the comic cuts to a script format. Doc Rocket is on her way to meet up with Johnny Panic at his apartment so the two of them can take off and hide in Outter Mongolia. She arrives to discover Johnny is dead with his eyes burnt out of their sockets. Cougar is also there and has a shocked look on his face, knowing that he's gonna be blamed for killing Johnny. He confesses to Doc Rocket that he had come there with the intention of killing her and Johnny both, but swears it wasn't he who had actually done it. Now we cut to a rough pencil section. Diehard is on a date with an unidentified woman when the two are attacked by Sentinel. Diehard and Sentinel fight and Sentinel gains the upper hand. He puts a hole through Diehards chest who then collapses. Sentinel begins to make a victory speech when he feels pains in his own chest. Aloud he asks why it feels like his heart is exploding. Diehard reveals that the fight Sentinel thought he had was a telepathic hallucination and the real fight took place outside of Sentinel's mind. Sentinel then collapses to his knees as his chest explodes. Next we cut to another fully colored segment where Twilight is standing over the dead body of Troll. In sadness she asks the deceased Troll why he had to keep coming at her. Just then, Suprema swoops down and sees what has happened. She pretends to comfort Twilight and after gaining the distraught girls trust, she kills her by frying Twilight's head with her laser vision, leaving nothing left of her head but a smoldering skull. Suprema flies off and a text at the bottom corner reads "To be continued". Then there's some bonus pages of script and character sketches. Like I said, the story was a good idea, it had a lot of potential, but the over the top sexual content and some of the dialog just seemed juvenile in nature imo. The art is fun though and I love Shaft's new design.
That is one of those books I have eternally hunted for but never found. It took three years to finally get a copy of Youngblood: Genesis #2, but Bloodsport #2 has yet to pop up. I've been waiting 20 years to find a copy of Liefeld's Agent America. That seems to be even more elusive than the others! Thanks for sharing the details. It's unfortunate they couldn't get that one completed. I thought Kirkman's stuff really sucked on YB: Imperial and The Infinite.
I guess the point I was trying to get across, perhaps poorly articulated.. and this is by no means isolated to you.. Ive seen the format from a few other guys on YT.. Idk.. once it pivots from commentary to another grown man like.. reading me the full dialogue balloons of Bloodstrike or something, as if it was a bed time story.. I dont know.. It feels too ludicrous, and off putting. One, especially these kind of books.. the dialogue and storytelling are so ludicrous anyways, but Two.. like dude I am already following what there is of a plot zz,nd it just grinds everything to a halt. The art.. and at best the jist of the "story" ... 😐... are what matter. & I dig Liefeld and Platt, etc big time.. guess you might have a younger audience and thats fine.. or maybe different tastes.. fine.. but to me I just cant sit too long with that format.. I remembeted later.. Warren Bernard on CK tried to do the same thing but reading some Golden Age capeshit book a few years ago.. Superman or Challengers of the unknown.. but even then Jim / Ed eventually compulsively had to stop him.. because it was so grating after more than a minute or two. At least that's myemory. Anyways.. I voiced my point prolly too much already, & will not go further out of my lane. Good Luck & good cheer to you brother.. I just meant it in good humor / as a piece of feedback if it was useful.. no disrespect intended.
@@StruggleoftheOutsider I've conducted a poll and it was an equal split on the format people like in the videos. I would prefer the shorter videos with critical commentary, jokes, and whatnot (if for no reason than they are vastly easier to edit). Half the audience, I've learned, like the long form storytime videos because they work graveyard all alone and can listen to me read all night long.
Aww dang...you almost got to my pinup in that Youngblood Imperial...I forgot I even had one in there...
Arcade published a few more than 4 issues. They published the two issues of Youngblood: Genesis, one issue of Youngblood: Imperial, two (kind of) issues of Youngblood: Bloodsport, an issue of Suprema: Supreme Sacrifice, and one issue each of Nitrogen and Nitrogen Exteme Forces, which I believe were John Malin's first professional work.
I didn't know that was Malin's debut! I have that one waiting in the wings!
I haven't seen those since I colored them, nice!
Matt Yackey very good work you did there
Great work, Matt.
Excellent work, Matt! Thanks for watching!
Cool! The colouring is the best part of the artwork.
For the record, there is a "Blood Sport" 2 issue, it's an unfinished sort of thing, but...if I remember right it's fully scripted. Worth getting, if you can find it!
I have seen that one floating around a bit, but it seems to be highly elusive. I've learned that most of Liefeld's post-Awesome Entertainment stuff from Arcade and Image are hard to find. Which is your pinup in Imperial?
Man I loved Youngblood, I never even knew these ones existed. And when you mentioned the first one being a year late, all I could think was, did Ethan draw it? Lol
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For those that didn't catch it, the "A" in the Arcade logo doubles as a joystick. I used to live in a town with a mall that had an arcade that hung around until the late nineties. It had a few arcade cabinets with joysticks. In fact I was using one in the nineties in my teens when some (bleep) grabbed my (bleep), and I shoved him, and then got banned from the arcade.
Thanks for pointing that out! 🕹
He grabbed your joystick??
@@latch78 😄Before becoming a comics editor, twenty years ago Nellie Wigal was a nude model. No joystick there. I imagine she edited the above comment to remove the word "ass" for both bleeped comments.
The Arcade logo was designed by Dee Snyder's son.
Whoa! That was totally unexpected. Did he do graphic design in general or specifically some comic stuff?
Congratulations on tracking these down. This had to have been Rob Liefeld's last of venture capital. It's a bit of a shame he didn't "mend fences" with IMAGE COMICS around this time instead of a decade later. Perhaps he could have gotten further with these stories.
Another great review.👍👍
Yeah, I particularly wish Bloodsport would have been completed. That was really fresh and original.
youngblood: bloodsport was so ridiculous and funny that i couldn't be mad at it even if i should have(zombie martin luther king). i was hoping it would continue just to see what kind of madness liefeld and millar were going to unleash next. in terms of art it was some of robs best work on some pages. i'm going to make it a personal mission to track down a copy of it to buy.
Yes, out of all Rob's work in the 21st Century, I wish this was the one that would have been seen through to the finish.
Has Rob been working on anything new
I believe he's looking to do some more independent comics of his own.
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Nice video. I love Youngblood. It's one of my all time favorite comic books and Shaft is one of my favorite comic book characters. It's nice to see Youngblood getting so much deserved attention.
That being said, I think the blood offerings (see what I did there?) that we got from Arcade comics were some of the weakest. I wasn't really impressed with any of it. Not even Bloodsport really. The idea was cool and the art is incredible, but I didn't like the overall execution. Imo they were trying too hard to be edgy and I had a hard time taking the book seriously because of it. I don't mind sexual content or foul language in a comic, but it was too over the top for me in Bloodsport and it seemed out of place in a Youngblood comic. It felt like it was written by a teenager who just discovered sex and naughty words and they couldn't wait for the opportunity to push their new discovery to the max.
Anyway, I could've sworn that 2 issues were published for Bloodsport and I was right!!..........sorta.
A rough cut of issues 2 was released and could be purchased at Wizard World Los Angeles back in 2005. I know this for sure because I have a copy. It's not completely finished. Some of it is colored, some is just rough pencils and then there's some script from Millar and character design sketches from Liefeld. Here's a breakdown of the issue.......
Shaft and Badrock decide to team up instead of fighting each other. Shaft is on the phone with his lawyer in hopes the he can get them out of the situation they're in when he and Badrock are attacked by Photon. Photon gets the upper hand on Badrock but before he can kill him, Shaft puts two arrows in Photon's chest. Badrock then grabs Photon and throws him into a gasoline truck causing it to explode, killing Photon in the process.
Now the comic cuts to a script format.
Doc Rocket is on her way to meet up with Johnny Panic at his apartment so the two of them can take off and hide in Outter Mongolia. She arrives to discover Johnny is dead with his eyes burnt out of their sockets. Cougar is also there and has a shocked look on his face, knowing that he's gonna be blamed for killing Johnny. He confesses to Doc Rocket that he had come there with the intention of killing her and Johnny both, but swears it wasn't he who had actually done it.
Now we cut to a rough pencil section.
Diehard is on a date with an unidentified woman when the two are attacked by Sentinel. Diehard and Sentinel fight and Sentinel gains the upper hand. He puts a hole through Diehards chest who then collapses. Sentinel begins to make a victory speech when he feels pains in his own chest. Aloud he asks why it feels like his heart is exploding. Diehard reveals that the fight Sentinel thought he had was a telepathic hallucination and the real fight took place outside of Sentinel's mind. Sentinel then collapses to his knees as his chest explodes.
Next we cut to another fully colored segment where Twilight is standing over the dead body of Troll. In sadness she asks the deceased Troll why he had to keep coming at her. Just then, Suprema swoops down and sees what has happened. She pretends to comfort Twilight and after gaining the distraught girls trust, she kills her by frying Twilight's head with her laser vision, leaving nothing left of her head but a smoldering skull.
Suprema flies off and a text at the bottom corner reads "To be continued".
Then there's some bonus pages of script and character sketches.
Like I said, the story was a good idea, it had a lot of potential, but the over the top sexual content and some of the dialog just seemed juvenile in nature imo. The art is fun though and I love Shaft's new design.
That is one of those books I have eternally hunted for but never found. It took three years to finally get a copy of Youngblood: Genesis #2, but Bloodsport #2 has yet to pop up. I've been waiting 20 years to find a copy of Liefeld's Agent America. That seems to be even more elusive than the others! Thanks for sharing the details. It's unfortunate they couldn't get that one completed. I thought Kirkman's stuff really sucked on YB: Imperial and The Infinite.
I have the die hard cover
I thought there would be some sex
Only between dudes
@@CryptoComics no thanks.
Illest art work
You told us almost nothing.
You're saying I should revisit these rare gems?
umm, locate them and read them dude.
here for the first 30 seconds before he starts "Reading" me the comic... that dont work bro.
I'll miss you.
I guess the point I was trying to get across, perhaps poorly articulated.. and this is by no means isolated to you.. Ive seen the format from a few other guys on YT.. Idk.. once it pivots from commentary to another grown man like.. reading me the full dialogue balloons of Bloodstrike or something, as if it was a bed time story.. I dont know.. It feels too ludicrous, and off putting. One, especially these kind of books.. the dialogue and storytelling are so ludicrous anyways, but Two.. like dude I am already following what there is of a plot zz,nd it just grinds everything to a halt. The art.. and at best the jist of the "story" ... 😐... are what matter. & I dig Liefeld and Platt, etc big time.. guess you might have a younger audience and thats fine.. or maybe different tastes.. fine.. but to me I just cant sit too long with that format.. I remembeted later.. Warren Bernard on CK tried to do the same thing but reading some Golden Age capeshit book a few years ago.. Superman or Challengers of the unknown.. but even then Jim / Ed eventually compulsively had to stop him.. because it was so grating after more than a minute or two. At least that's myemory. Anyways.. I voiced my point prolly too much already, & will not go further out of my lane. Good Luck & good cheer to you brother.. I just meant it in good humor / as a piece of feedback if it was useful.. no disrespect intended.
@@StruggleoftheOutsider I've conducted a poll and it was an equal split on the format people like in the videos. I would prefer the shorter videos with critical commentary, jokes, and whatnot (if for no reason than they are vastly easier to edit). Half the audience, I've learned, like the long form storytime videos because they work graveyard all alone and can listen to me read all night long.
@@StruggleoftheOutsider I admit that I struggle to keep up on the comments. Once the channel reached a certain size, it became work. Lol
@@CryptoComics well fair enough.. maybe its more my quirk..