Bloodstrike (Image Comics)
Bloodstrike is a comic book series created by writer/artist Rob Liefeld as part of his Extreme Studios production company, and which debuted in 1993 through Image Comics as a spinoff of Liefeld's other property Youngblood. Bloodstrike features a squad of assassins, each of whom is a super-powered operative who died in the line of duty and was resurreted by a secret government program called Project Born Again. The group is led by Cabbot Stone, and its other members include Fourplay, Deadlock, Shogun, Tag, and Chapel.
Cover of Bloodstrike #1 (remastered edition) by Dan Fraga and Rob Liefeld
Robert Liefeld is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer and artist in the 1990s, he is known for co-creating the character Cable with writer Louise Simonson and the character Deadpool with writer Fabian Nicieza. In the early 1990s, Liefeld gained popularity 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 started a wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Liefeld's Youngblood #1.
Liefeld at the 2022 WonderCon
Liefeld and Marat Mychaels share a laugh as they sketch at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 2, 2010
Liefeld (second from right) with the other founders of Image Comics at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con
Liefeld sketching Deadpool in a copy of the Deadpool Volume 1 hardcover three days before the release of the 2016 Deadpool film. To his right is a figurine of the character.