Extreme Studios

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To say that Deadpool was a box-office hit is slightly understating things, so it’s no surprise that that execs are hoping to get into business with the artist behind the Merc With a Mouth, Rob Liefeld — well, one exec, specifically: Akiva Goldsman. After securing the rights to develop (and possibly direct) an adaptation of Liefeld’s Avengelyne series, Goldsman has acquired rights to another Liefeld property, and this time his plans are a bit more ambitious.

Do you have "Extreme Talent"? Would you like to have your story illustrated by Rob Liefeld in an upcoming Image comic? If the answer to either of these questions is a resounding "yes," then Liefeld's contest calling on burgeoning creators to reinvent one of his Extreme characters for publication in an upcoming issue of Youngblood and Bloodstrike could be for you...

On sale now from Image Comics is Supreme #63, which after a 15-year wait finally concludes Alan Moore's hugely acclaimed work with Rob Liefeld's Superman analog. Also the writer of such books as Watchmen and From Hell, Moore's final Supreme script sat on the proverbial shelf since the last issue went on sale in 1998, and will be drawn by Savage Dragon creator and Image co-founder Erik Larsen with

I've never read an issue of the original Extreme Studios title Bloodstrike, but I feel like I learned everything I need to know about it by looking at the front of the first issue from 1993. I've seen this thing a hundred times in back issue bins, and the cover's invitation to "RUB THE BLOOD... Read More ...

The Robert Kirkman/Rob Liefeld collaboration The Infinite apparently isn't going to live up to its name. Responding to a fan asking about upcoming issues of the series on Twitter, Liefeld said quite simply, "Infinite is over."The Infinite launched with some fanfare last summer, as it teamed the Image partner and popular writer Kirkman (Walking Dead, Invinicible) with Image founder and p

When Image Comics announced last year that it was doing a full-on relaunch of Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios comics, the most surprising thing for me wasn't that this was something that was happening in the year 2012, but how much I was looking forward to it...

A relaunch of Prophet, the muscles-and-guns Rob Liefeld comic about a time-traveling soldier originally published by Extreme Studios in the '90s, isn't something that would normally interest me. Finding out that Brandon Graham, creator of King City, was writing Prophet changed my tune...

In one of the truly weirdest (but welcome) announcements at New York Comic Con, Image Comics revealed that a new slate of creators will be reviving Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios titles like Prophet, Youngblood, Extreme, Bloodstrike, and Glory, books whose gargantuan muscles, boobs and guns epitomized the "extreme" aesthetics of comics in the '90s...