>Liefeld leaves X-Force after 12 issues, starts Youngblood>Longest running title is a spinoff>Every mainline volume dies at 11 issues maxIs it a curse?
>>152335782Crazy
>>152336967not that crazy
>>152335782>1992 series was originally said to be a mini, ending with #5 in 1993>Youngblood Strikefile also originally said to be a mini, ending with #4 in 1993>Team Youngblood was the first ongoing book>Youngblood vol 1 and Strikefile both re-start from the original numbering in 1994>All 3 books end in 1995 with the Extreme Sacrifice Event and a relaunch to Youngblood vol 2>During the Vol 2 era, Team Youngblood gets two new issues with the same numbering to add additional chapters to some crossovers>Vol 2 numbering goes from #1-10 then #14 as Liefeld leaves Image, Extreme Studios ends and all his books go to Maximum PressThis was some legal issue where they weren't allowed to re-solicit the same books under the same issue numbers, so had to skip those numbers.>Maximum Press ends and just about everything ends unfinished>Awesome Comics starts and a new Youngblood book launches in 1998, by Alan Moore and Steve Skroce, only gets 2 issues.Awesome survived another year or two and Moore was still working on Supreme in 99, don't know what happened here.>Arcade Comics starts in 2003, with two Youngblood minis>Youngblood Bloodsport by Millar and Liefeld, 3 issue mini planned>A 'bootleg' version of #2 with coloring and lettering not finalized gets released as a convention exclusive, never gets proper release, mini never finishes>Youngblood Genesis is the long-delayed origin mini, originally promoted as Youngblood Year One back in the 90s. #1 and #2 are release a year apart, #3-4 never happen.>In 2004, Youngblood Imperial, a planned 12-issue series by Kirkman starts, only #1 is published>Kirkman's Supreme relaunch also only gets one issue>Liefeld returns to Image, the 2008 Youngblood book by Joe Casey starts>Story ends unfinished after 8 issues, Liefeld takes over the book with #9, ends up being the last issue>2012 relaunch uses legacy numbering, lasts 8 issues>2017 relaunch lasts 11 issues>2025 relaunch is on #3 so far
>>152335782>Longest running title is a spinoffPretty sure it's Supreme, chief. It's also the best one by a country mile. Even the pre-Moore silliness has its high points. Idk if Supreme counts as a "Youngblood spinoff" since aside from first appearing in an issue that was a glorified ad for his upcoming book, they're pretty separate as IPs.Also, I think Liefeld has severe undiagnosed ADHD. Given just how many projects he starts and drops, how many characters he creates, etc.
>>152339585Pre-Moore Supreme isn't nearly as popular, and for justified reason. It actually isn't that bad, and sometimes it's even more nuanced than you'd expect. But it never really gets a chance to get going because it's constantly being derailed by big events, changing writers, shared-universe bullshit and other silliness. Just when it looks like they're about to have a cohesive continuity and status quo, the table flips and everything abruptly changes due to some shit that isn't even part of the main book. Subplots that feel like they were only supposed to last a few issues go on for nearly half the length of the book, plot points that seem like they'll be critically important disappear into nothingness with only a single line of dialogue to cover it.By the end they try to tie everything together by making it all into a grand conspiracy woven by the villain (Loki, who up until then had been such a minor character that he barely existed) and the plot becomes so tangled and convoluted that trying to explain it takes up like 30 paragraphs. Highlights include three different Supreme clones running around, including a genderswapped one who actually turns out to be Supreme's future daughter in the body of her supposedly dead brother until being genderswapped by a magic TF wave, which causes her to regain her memories. Meanwhile, the brother has become a magical energy being who can travel time, while the original Supreme who was supposedly dead loses his powers and has to steal them from his clone.Moore's run went out of it's way to be convoluted and meta and it *still* managed to be way more coherent.
