Cover: Roger Cruz & Jon Sibal

Brigade #16

Jan 1995 · Image · 2.50 USD; 3.55 CAD

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Brigade #16 is the fourth chapter of Extreme Studios' ambitious eight-part 'Extreme Sacrifice' crossover, and it delivers one of the most brutal single-issue body counts in the early Image Comics era: Crypt systematically executes Kayo, Thermal, Crucible, and Coldsnap before Glory and Roman arrive too late to intervene. That willingness to permanently (or at least durably) kill off named team members within an ongoing series was still relatively uncommon in mainstream superhero publishing in 1995, and it signaled Extreme Studios' intention to give its crossovers genuine narrative stakes. The issue also functions as a pivotal connective node in a crossover that spanned seven titles simultaneously, demonstrating the ambition — if not always the execution — of the Image founders' shared-universe model.

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writer Rob Liefeld · writer Eldon Asp · artist Roger Cruz · artist Manny Clark · artist Fabio Laguna · inker Marlo Alquiza · inker Danny Miki · inker Norm Rapmund · colorist Byron Talman · colorist Extreme Color · letterer Kurt Hathaway · colorist Brian Stevens · cover Roger Cruz, Jon Sibal

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History

Brigade Vol. 2 was created and plotted by Rob Liefeld and originally illustrated by Marat Mychaels as a spin-off from Youngblood; by the mid-run, day-to-day writing duties had passed to collaborators working from Liefeld's plots, with issue #16 credited to co-writer Eldon Asp. The art team for this chapter — pencilers Roger Cruz, Manny Clark, and Fabio Laguna, inked by Marlo Alquiza, Danny Miki, and Norm Rapmund — reflects the multi-hand production approach common to Extreme Studios books under deadline pressure. The issue was released polybagged with an Extreme Sacrifice promotional trading card, a standard marketing practice for the event's core chapters.

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Brigade #16 (cover date January 1995, on-sale approximately March 2, 1995) is Part 4 of the eight-part 'Extreme Sacrifice' crossover, continuing from Bloodstrike #18 and leading into New Men #10.
The issue is written by Rob Liefeld (plot) and Eldon Asp (script), with pencils by Roger Cruz, Manny Clark, and Fabio Laguna, inks by Marlo Alquiza, Danny Miki, and Norm Rapmund, and a cover by Roger Cruz and Jonathan Sibal.
Crypt, acting as Lord Chapel's enforcer, kills four Brigade members in this single issue: Kayo, Thermal, Crucible, and Coldsnap — one of the highest single-issue casualty counts in the Extreme Studios line.
Lethal survives Crypt's assault only by being teleported to a dystopian future, while Knightsabre and Troll are revealed to be under surveillance by Graves and Combat at Youngblood headquarters.
Glory (Gloriana Demeter) and Roman arrive at the Brigade compound too late to stop the slaughter; a figure called the Newborn delivers a cryptic warning to them and Seahawk before vanishing.
The 'Extreme Sacrifice' crossover — of which this is a core chapter — tied together seven ongoing Extreme Studios series: Bloodstrike, Brigade, New Men, Prophet, Supreme, Team Youngblood, and Youngblood Strikefile.
The issue was sold polybagged with an Extreme Sacrifice promotional trading card.
Brigade #16 was later collected and reprinted in the Extreme Sacrifice trade paperback, published by Image Comics in 1995.