Bloodpool #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBloodpool #2 is the second chapter of Rob Liefeld's four-issue Extreme Studios limited series that gave the Youngblood program's discarded test subjects their own spotlight as a scrappy hero-for-hire outfit — a storytelling angle that was notably countercultural within the bravado-heavy Image house of 1995. The issue marks the first appearance of Eyrth Mover, a geokinetic villain whose mundane backstory as a real estate developer turned would-be slaver was a departure from the cosmically scaled antagonists common to the Extreme Universe. As the second installment in a rare writer-driven Extreme title — scripted by Mary Jo Duffy rather than a house artist — it represents one of the few mid-decade Image miniseries to foreground character dynamics and low-stakes mercenary problem-solving over crossover spectacle. All four issues of the run, including this one, were subsequently collected in a 1996 trade paperback, giving the series a modest second life.
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The Bloodpool concept originated with Rob Liefeld, who built the team into his Extreme Universe as a developmental feeder program for Youngblood; the fictional program's cancellation — a consequence of the 'Extreme Sacrifice' crossover event, in which Youngblood director Graves was exposed as a demon and replaced by Battlestone — provided the narrative springboard for the miniseries. Liefeld handed scripting duties to Mary Jo Duffy, a veteran of Marvel's Power Man and Iron Fist and Star Wars runs, and paired her with artist Pat Lee, with Jaime Mendoza on inks and Eric Stephenson serving as editor. Issue #2, cover-dated September 1995, continued directly from the team's self-funding origin in issue #1 and maintained the relatively grounded tone Duffy brought to the property.
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- First appearance of Eyrth Mover, a geokinetic villain and former real estate salesman who builds an underground compound and enslaves people using mind-control technology.
- First appearance of supporting character Thelma Lou, a captive held by Eyrth Mover whose life is used as leverage against the team.
- Creative team: written by Mary Jo Duffy, penciled by Pat Lee, inked by Jaime Mendoza, lettered by Kurt Hathaway, edited by Eric Stephenson.
- The full Bloodpool roster appears: Fusion (Burke Monet), Psilence (Monica Caine), Rubble (Horace Benson), Seoul (Lily Lee), Task (Ryan Orsini), and Wylder (Del Sanders).
- Psilence — whose real name is Monica Caine — takes a decisive role in the climax, psionically overpowering Eyrth Mover and freeing his enslaved victims.
- The issue is set firmly within Liefeld's Extreme Universe, and Didelphis appears as a supporting character watching a talk show in which the defunct Bloodpool government program is publicly discussed.
- This issue was reprinted in the Bloodpool trade paperback published by Image Comics in 1996, which collected all four issues of the miniseries.
- The series was conceived by Rob Liefeld as an expansion of his Extreme Universe, specifically as a follow-on to the 'Extreme Sacrifice' crossover event that ended the Youngblood government program.
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Reprinted in Combat #2 (1996)
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