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Liefeld then founded Maximum Press, separate from Image, to explore some new directions. While at Image, Extreme Studios provided a spotlight for several young upcoming artists like Jeff Matsuda (Newmen), Stephen Platt (Prophet), Marat Mychaels (Brigade), as well as a strong lineup of inkers such as Danny Miki, Jon Sibal, Norm Rapmund, and Marlo Alquiza. Nevertheless, he continued to create titles that managed to attract fans. On a more practical business level, some titles arrived late or never shipped at all, angering dealers and alienating readers. He founded Extreme Studios and created high selling books such as Youngblood, Brigade, and Prophet among others.ĭuring this period he earned some detractors and negativity, including charges that he exhibited characteristics of someone whose only exposure to drawing came in the form of other comics. In 1992, Liefeld decided to leave Marvel and form Image Comics along with some fellow artists ( Jim Lee, Todd Mcfarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, Whilce Portacio and Marc Silvestri).
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Liefeld co-wrote and penciled the first twelve issues. The characters were cool and the stories were more action packed than the other X-Titles the goal of X-Force was to seek out and attack the super-villains instead of waiting for them. Upon its release, 1 million copies of the first issue were sold. With the success of New Mutants, Marvel decided to have Liefeld take the team in a new direction: X-Force. He redesigned the characters and introduced some instant fan favorites like Cable, the mentor of the team from the future, Domino, a mercenary working with Cable, and Deadpool, another mercenary working for Tolliver, a mysterious businessman trying to kill Cable.
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But he'd have to wait to firmly establish himself in the industry until the late 80s/early 90s and his work on The New Mutants, a Marvel series which had difficulties prior to his arrival. His style, fresh and dynamic, earned him some positive attention and his name began to be known. Rob Liefeld began his successful career at DC as the artist on the Hawk & Dove mini-series.