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Splash Too wrote:

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I finally took the time to read my battered up, second hand copy of the Extreme Sacrifice TPB these last few days. I read it all in 3 or 4 days, sometimes reading two or more issues (I took one day off from reading it in between). Typical stories from Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios back then. My Image Comics nostalgia is returning in stride...!

Plus, I've been reading Spawn's early years as well, reading what I have of the old former Spawn TPBs that MacFarlane released, having finished reading up to Spawn Book 8: Betrayal of Blood a few weeks back, which collects up to Spawn # 38. I even read the 1999 Annual Blood & Shadows. I have volumes 1-8, and 11 of the old TPBs, Armageddon Complete Collection TPB, New Flesh TPB, Neo Noir TPB, Spawn Collection TPB Volumes 1 and 5 only, Angela TPB and Sam & Twitch Book 1: Udaku TPB. I also have the Spawn/Batman special, but have not read it yet...the other books I have not read still are Spawn Book 11: Crossroads, Armageddon, New Flesh, Neo Noir, and Spawn Collection Volume 5 as I hope to do an exact chronological reading of Spawn, but I still need the remaining Spawn Collection volumes that I don't have right now. I know Spawn Collection Volume 6 (which reprints up to issue #116) was the last volume in the series as MacFarlance has decided to redo the TPB line once again, and with Armageddon starting from issue #150, there's still issues #117-149 not collected now. With what's been happening with the Spawn collected books, I'm really messed up...I might just read from Armageddon onward for now.

I also intend to read more WildCATS, Cyberforce, and Savage Dragon (I'll buy Dragon as TPBs) as well. Maybe I'll buy more Extreme Studios titles from the cheap bargain bins one day too...!

Oops, I forgot to mention that from last year up to this year, at various times, I managed to read some Witchblade TPBs as well, so that too is part of my Image Comics readings in recent times.
Old TPB editions:
Witchblade: Origins (#1 - #8)
Witchblade Vol. 2: Revelations (#9-19, The Darkness Vol. 1 #9-10)
Witchblade/Darkness: Family Ties (Witchblade #18 & #19 and Darkness Vol. 1 #9 & #10)
Witchblade Vol. 3: Prevailing (#20 - #25)
Witchblade Vol. 7: Blood Relations (#54 - #58)
Witchblade Vol. 11 (#86-#92)
Witchblade: Distinctions (collects Tales of the Witchblade #1 - #6)
Witchblade: Obakemono (an original graphic novel about a Witchblade wielder in feudal Japan)
New editions TPB line re-started in 2008, collecting writer Ron Marz' run:
Witchblade Volume 1 (#80 - #85)

In the case of Witchblade/Darkness: Family Ties TPB, I had this book before I ended up getting the new version of Witchblade Vol. 2: Revelations from 2005, which of course collected Witchblade #18 & #19 and Darkness Vol. 1 #9 & #10 included again (Witchblade: Revelations had an earlier edition that only collected Witchblade #9-17 in 2000). Like what MacFarlane Productions has done with the Spawn TPB library, Top Cow decided to redo the Witchblade TPBs again, collecting the early years stories under the Witchblade Origins TPBs, plus going mega volumes with Witchblade Compendiums (collecting 50 issues worth) with two volumes released I think already. Plus, since 2008, writer Ron Marz' run is just under the Witchblade name only, with 5 or 6 volumes into this line already (his first year was under Witchblade Volumes 10 and 11 of the old TPB line before the redo). Top Cow never did run the old Witchblade TPB line properly at all back then. Very shoddy job prior to their 2008 redo of the Witchblade collected editions library, as their were never any other volumes between volumes 3 through 7, and there was never volumes 8 and 9 either (they just jump to Volume 10 when they first reprinted Ron Marz opening arc?).

comix750 wrote:

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I'm really considering having some of my Image stuff bound. As soon as I fill in some of these blasted holes, and figure out just exactly -how- to bind things. I'll probably start with Extreme stuff, I just need to decide whether I'll collect all the Extreme stuff in one line, or split it up by title. I was thinking of doing my first volume as Youngblood 1-3, 0, 4-5, Battlezone 1, Strikefile 1-3, the Yearbook, and as soon as I get my hands on them, Art of Extreme 1 and Image 0. Also, the second-printing Gold-frame cover to Youngblood 1 as an extra. Maybe another volume collecting Brigade and Bloodstrike, another collecting Supreme. But that's a ways off. First I need to fill in a few holes (Extreme 1, Image 0, Brigade II 1, Supreme 2), and also hunt down variant covers/editions, and other copies of things like Brigade 2, which my copy is devoid of the trading cards/Image 0 coupon. Also I might get a second copy of Younblood 0 to fit into the Brigade book. Things like that. I'll start with Extreme for 3 reasons; 1) Youngblood 1 kicked off Image, and 2) I have the least amount of holes so far, I think, and 3) Extreme not only had the most comics, but was also like it's own mini-universe within the Image U, sorta like the X-Universe in Marvel, so the titles gel together quite well.

I have the original Youngblood miniseries, Brigade miniseries, two issues of Supreme in the number 40s during Alan Moore's run as writer (I later ended up buying the entire run as the Supreme: The Story of the Year and Supreme: The Return TPBs that were released by Checker Book Publishing Group). Oh, the Extreme Sacrifice TPB too, which I thought was typical Liefeld studio published material (everyone's getting killed off by Crypt, hello...). I ended up buying some other Liefeld studio produced stuff, like the Glory TPB, Warchild TPB, the various Battlestar Galactica comic books and Avengelyne comics as well from Liefeld's Maximum Press imprint. I recently bought a back issue from Liefeld's short-lived comic book publisher company Awesome Entertainment, Re:Gex # 0 in a bargain bin. I also have the TPB volume of the Awesome crossover event, Judgment Day, again written by Alan Moore, and reprinted by Checker Book Publishing Group. I also have Youngblood issues # and 2 (again scripted by Alan Moore) that Awesome published before they went out of business. This Youngblood series had something going, too bad it ended abruptly though.

Overall, I thought the original Youngblood miniseries was pretty bad, and I hated the fact that issue #5 was published as a flipbook within the Brigade miniseries issue # 4. That was just stupid at the time, and Liefeld didn't even draw that little conclusion of the Youngblood miniseries either! What a cop out! Brigade didn't seem that great either. The Alan Moore written stuff was pretty good, and I think Liefeld deserves some credit for having someone like Moore come in and just do a massive over haul to his universe of characters back then. At least it gave Liefeld some more respectablity somewhat, but not by much I guess, and trying to give his creations a second life I suppose. I might be forgetting what else I might have of Liefeld's Extreme/Maxumum Press/Awesome stuff...hmm...still I might try getting more back issues one day and buy more Extreme stuff.