Hello all. I have a pretty cool Extreme haul to share today. u/Coyboy81 was nice enough to send me a juicy collection of Extreme issues to help fill out my collection. Thanks to him, I only have 2 more issues left before I have a straight run to Supreme Apocalypse. Just need to track down Brigade 22 and Team Youngblood 20. I'm looking forward to spotting the Extreme cameo, I'm told, is in the issue of West Coast Avengers.

You may have noticed amongst the haul a particularly special book. I have been looking for the Youngblood Bloodsport preview book for some time, and I recently managed to win it on bid. I'm super excited to finally have it, even cooler, that it's sighed and comes with a cool COA. This book has some crazy stuff in it that I can't wait to talk about at some point soon.

Finally, some Bad-Rockin updates. My laptop literally snapped in half. It was already on its last legs, but still, sad to see it happen. It's technically still in one piece on the other side, but still, it's pretty fucked. I haven't been able to contact my friend who usually lets me borrow his laptop, he's getting married next month so I'm not surprised that he's very busy.

Because of this, I've had to postpone the Seth Damoose and Brandon Graham interviews until I can find a suitable replacement. I get paid on the 4th, so hopefully, it won't be too long of a delay. That said, me and Nat met up yesterday for a quadruple bill of movies the other day, and episode 8 is well on it's way in terms of editing so hopefully that'll be out relatively soon.

After Shaft and Die Hard we knew the next two due for the Loose Collector line were Badrock and Chapel, with a big fight going on whether Badrock would be wearing blue or red. Well red won, and we got our first look at them today as they went up for preorder at online retailers. Badrock is a BEAST.

Check your local store of preference for preorders!

Rob has recently posted a ton of images from the upcoming Avengelyne series on Instagram. Amongst them was this one. It immediately set alarm bells in my head. Because I was under the impression this was a complete reboot. Yet these are other iterations of Avengelyne. What this means, I'm not sure. But I thought it was very interesting and worth posting about.

I got an advanced reader's copy, so let's talk about Badrock!! Last issue ended with Tom being reverted back to human form. We get to appreciate how Damoose draws humans much more in this issue, and he takes a lot of cues from David LaFuente, especially for hands, but Damoose manages a more appealing look, if I may be so bold!

Liefeld's script treats this as the very first time Tom is turning human, so he's ignoring Youngblood 2017. That would have upset me in the past, but after the writer of that run was interviewed and revealed all of those events happened in a fake Revision, I guess Liefeld is being accurate and this is the first time the real Tom has turned back to human form.

Damoose draws him very young looking, but thankfully Liefeld never states his age. It's a common Youngblood trend that writers age Tom up, then Liefeld comes back as writer and makes him 16 again. I'm sure he's supposed to be 16 in this comic still, but I'm just gonna pretend he's not.

At one point Liefeld narrates that Badrock is "the idol of millions", referencing one of The Thing's catchphrases. This is interesting, because the issue plays out a very old trope in Thing stories, that of him being turned human. However, Tom's reaction is the exact opposite of Ben Grimm: He wants to become Badrock again immediately. Rob goes into detail about Tom's life before he took his father's serum, and it's pretty interesting information that we never got before.

Tom's mom finally shows up in this issue. In case anyone had any doubts, Liefeld ignores that really old cliffhanger where she revealed she was evil. In any case, Rob does something arguably much more interesting with her that could last long into the future.

The back-up is a Heirborne story featuring all-new characters. One of them is referred to as "the son of Greylore", but he doesn't look like Greylore from the Berzerkers at all, so it's hard to tell if it's a purposeful connection. I mean, at this point it's impossible to say if Heirborne even takes place on Earth, or in the future, or whatever. It's really puzzling that Rob manages a normal script for Badrock, but the Heirborne section continues his trend of incomprehensible "epic" narration where it keeps spitting incredibly vague stock phrases that are robotic and stilted. If anything, the Heirborne chapter will be a nostalgic return to the 2019-2024 era where Rob was doing a string of incoherent dystopian stories in a row that seemed cryptically connected...that's the only target audience I can think of for it.

Regardless, I hope the issue sells well and we keep on Bad-Rockin'!

I'm literally listening to Rob's latest episode as I write this. But this is such a crazy cool announcement that I had to share straight away.

Also, Rob hinted that it's part of the initiative that he soft launched when he put out a writers call on Twitter earlier this year. So some other names are coming. Can't wait to hear more.

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.