In a wild plot twist, Youngblood creator Rob Liefeld will team with Scott Rosenberg’s Platinum Studios to write and illustrate a new Youngblood comic series, the company announced. Liefeld is teamed with Platinum Studios because the Youngblood characters he created are now owned by a company called Rip Media Inc., which is not Liefeld’s company, and managed by Platinum Studios on Rip Media’s behalf.
The new Youngblood series will launch in 2025; other Youngblood products in the pipe include Youngblood Vault Edition, a hardcover volume featuring high resolution scans of the art from the first Youngblood series; and a Facsimile Edition of Youngblood #1, which will be released in April 2025, marking the 33rd anniversary of the issue’s publication.
The new Youngblood series will be released by Image Comics, which Liefeld departed as a partner in the late 90s. Youngblood went back to Image in 2007 for a short-lived new series, for which Liefeld wrote one issue (see “Arctic Blast Ravages Hades“). Image also published two other Youngblood series in the 2010s.
Rosenberg’s Malibu Comics was the publisher of record for the first iteration of Youngblood, the initial comic release from newly formed Image Comics in 1992.
We last heard from Platinum Studios back in 2013, when internecine warfare and financial problems seemed likely to mark the end of the then-publicly traded company (see “Zombie Corporation Chronicles“). But as we wrote at the time, “While Platinum Studios appears to be down for the count, it may be too early to write off Rosenberg,” noting that he’d come back after the messy collapse of Sunrise Distribution, his comic distribution company.
Source: ICv2
