Lifeforce

Lifeforce burst onto the independent comics scene in 1989, a product of the scrappy, anything-goes Copper Age when small publishers like Firebird Press were carving out their own corners of the universe. Debuting in Energons #14 — the creation of Sherman Burnett — this character shares their world with a vivid, hard-edged cast that includes Rampage, Slasher, Vortex, and Scourge, names that crackle with the kinetic energy that defined indie action comics of the era. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Lifeforce is a genuine rarity, the kind of hidden gem that makes digging through back-issue bins so rewarding for collectors who love discovering what was happening beyond the Big Two.