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Brigade – Definitive Collecting Guide & Reading Order

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New for Patrons: Guide to Brigade

March 9, 2023 by krisis Leave a Comment

I have another new guide for all Patrons of CK and, weirdly, this guide for a little known Image Launch title with few lasting fans is a big inspiration for expanding my indie comics coverage. Welcome to a guide about the Image Comics launch book from Rob Liefeld you’ve probably never heard of in my Guide to Brigade!

Guide to Brigade

Guide to Brigade

If you recall Brigade from the 90s, you’d have to have been a major fan of the mythology of Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood. And, if the amount of information on the internet about this comic is any indication, there ain’t a whole lot of those major fans out there.

Brigade was the fifth comic launched by Image in 1992, and the second from Liefeld’s Extreme Studios. His Youngblood were positioned as a government-sanctioned super-team that doubled as major media stars. Brigade was the dark flipside of that. Its leader, Bloodstone, was a World War 2 veteran who served, died, and served again thanks to the Image Comics version of a super soldier serum. He once led Youngblood, but left in disgrace after the accidental death of one of his team members at his own hands.

Despite it all, Battlestone never gave up on fighting the good fight for justice – he just fights it from a different angle now with his own vigilante team.

I made that sound really cool, right? Like a disgraced Captain America leading the Dark Avengers a full five years prior to the debut of Thunderbolts (rather than fancy boy Iron Man leading a bunch of high-profile Avengers slumming it in Force Works, which was still two years after the launch of Brigade).

So, why don’t we recall this comic as the flipside of Youngblood the way we do with the conjoined pair of WildCats & Stormwatch? [Read more…] about New for Patrons: Guide to Brigade

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Brigade, Eric Stephenson, Extreme Studios, Marat Mychaels, Norm Rapund, Rob Liefeld, Youngblood

New for ALL CK Readers: Guide to Youngblood (to kick off my Indie Comics Month!)

March 1, 2023 by krisis Leave a Comment

Welcome to the kickoff of “Indie Comics Month” at Crushing Krisis! I’ll be expanding the Crushing Comics Guide to Collecting Indie & Licensed Comics all month long, and I can’t have an Indie Comics guide without covering some Image Comics. I meant to kick that off last year for their 30th anniversary, but what could be more in the spirit of early Image comic books than running a few months behind schedule? Today I’m covering the first Image ongoing comic. Yes, it’s Rob Liefeld’s X-adjacent squad of X-Treme government heroes in my Guide to Youngblood!

Guide to Youngblood

To celebrate the start of my Indie Comics month, this new Guide to Youngblood is immediately available for all CK readers thanks to the X-Tremely Awesome support of Patrons of CK! For as little as $1 a month you can help to support the costs of maintaining and expanding the 200+ comic guides of Crushing Comics, plus get early access to guides like this one (and every X-adjacent guide).

Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Krisis, did we really need a guide to Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood? Wasn’t there some other indie comic you could’ve started with?”

The answers to those questions are yes and no, respectively – but, maybe not for the reasons you think. [Read more…] about New for ALL CK Readers: Guide to Youngblood (to kick off my Indie Comics Month!)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Image Comics, New Comic Book Guide, Rob Liefeld, Youngblood

Crushing Comics S01E074 – Comics Haul! Lumberjanes, Venom, X-Men Epic Collection, & More!

February 15, 2018 by krisis

Can you smell that? It’s the sweet, sweet American air (and packing peanuts) unleashed by this massive haul of new comics from my December order.

The unboxing starts with a new volume of our beloved Lumberjanes, includes a pair of classic Venom collections, a pair of new Marvel Epic Collections, the penultimate TPB of Letter 44, new Injection, old Cable, new Youngblood, and…

…something I’ll be digging into in the next episode of Crushing Comics!

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Collected Editions, Crushing Comics, Epic Collections, haul, Injection, Letter 44, Lumberjanes, unboxing, Venom, Youngblood

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