Youngblood, vol. 1

Youngblood (Collected Editions)

by Rob Liefeld, Hank Kanalz

Youngblood TPB collects Youngblood Volume I, #1–4; 96 pages; 1993 Previews Exclusive Edition.

Introducing the next generation of super-heroes...meet Youngblood. This explosive first volume features two teams and two exciting adventures. First, Shaft, Die Hard, Bedrock (Badrock), Vogue, and Chapel must confront the nefarious Four. Then, Sentinel leads Riptide, Brahma, Photon, Psi-Fire, and Cougar into a Middle-Eastern country to put an end to an evil dictator's rule.

Brought to you by the co-creator of Cable from the New Mutants and X-Force.

Softcover, 96 pages, full color.

Genres: Superheroes, Comics

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Rob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium.

In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which rode the wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.

He is married to actress Joy Creel.

Reviews

[Bob Fish]

I show one of Youngblood's many iconic splash pages here :
https://youtu.be/mLbFoQQEnKw

[Devero]

Nel 1992 diversi disegnatori di gran nome abbandonano la Marvel comics e si mettono in proprio, creando la Image. Titolo che è un programma: immagine.
Tutto centrato su quelli che dovevano essere dei bei disegni, albi pieni di splash page, con la storia in secondo piano e la trama in ultima fila. Parte Liefeld col botto dei suoi Youngblood.
All'epoca se ne parlava molto, in male ed in bene: molta critica e considerazioni quando ancora il materiale originale in Italia non era stato tradotto. Provai a seguire la serie, ma la abbandonai subito dopo gli albi qui raccolti: disegni di Rob, ossia sempre quelle 3-4 pose, sempre uguali per tutti. I volti, se visti in bianco e nero sono indistinguibili l'uno dall'altro. La storia: inesistente. La trama: non la conosce. L'unica cosa di positivo che posso trovare nel suo lavoro è che qualche idea buona l'aveva, ma se non sai scrivere e non sai disegnare, non metterti a pubblicare.
Il fondo del fondo del peggio del fumetto degli anni '90.
Zero stelle.

[Guido]

Primera edición recopilatoria, aparentemente exsclusiva de Previews. A diferencia de la que salió mucho después, tiene un capítulo menos y los diálogo sin reescribir, aunque no sé si habría más diferencias.
Sus personajes incluye a: Chapel, Die-Hard, Prophet, Riptide, Sentinel y Shaft, entre otros.

[Nicolo]

This collected edition assembled the first four issues of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood. The first issue of this creative owned effort sold a million copies to launch Image comics. These four issues sold a lot of copies as well.

Writing and plotting was not the strong suit of the authors of this comic book series, but the art was the best Liefeld produced of this era. Probably even better than his X-Force work. It helped that he owned Youngblood when it launched and has skin in the game. Releasing it independently was a high risk and high return proposition that paid off handsomely.

The first issue featured a couple of standalone stories, which was released as a flipbook. Issues two to four was actually a multiparter. Unfortunately, the story does not conclude with the fourth issue, and instead continued on a different title. This defeated the purpose of collecting four issues for a complete story.

Good art but incomplete and unsatisfying reading experience, thus the two stars.

[Andrew Alvis]

I suppose I really didn't know what to expect from one of Rob Liefeld's original ideas. I certainly didn't hate it, this volume comprising the first four issues but it was very chaotic and probably would have been better had previews not been included at the end of each issue.

Still, not a bad start but it is a pain in the bum to know that I have to jump between different titles now with the tendency that Image had joining several different comic titles together.

On to Brigade #1!

[Alessandro]

The first collection of Youngblood, the first series of the then-newborn Image Comics. Fortunately the publisher came out with much better material during the following years, both as text than as drawing. Always thought Liefield an overrated artist/writer, the worst of the original seven of Image.

[Doyle]

I read these 4 issues again and again in middle school, but they are hard to revisit as an adult.

[Bivi Zyggy]

Mejora en la versión redialogada.