A day after announcing that his Extreme Studios characters had been optioned for the big screen by Fundamental Films, Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld exclusively confirmed for ComicBook.com that the characters of the Extreme Universe will be coming back to comics, with an upcoming anthology book due for release later this year.

Besides the return of Youngblood, Liefeld plans to release a number of projects to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Image Comics, which launched in 1992.

"Most importantly there will be an Extreme Anthology book," Liefeld told ComicBook.com. "I've already got awesome creators contributing to that book." You see what he did there?

"There is an Extreme Anthology book because, A, I love anthologies and I love these characters," Liefeld continued. "We've got great stories for them and we figure that that's a great place for people to familiarize themselves. I remember when we launched Darker Image, Bloodwulf appeared for the fist time in a million comics. People love Darker Image and then we never followed it up. That was a kick ass book with three medium sized stories. So I've wanted to revisit that. Certainly Bloodwulf will be in this Extreme Anthology." Bloodwulf, who appeared in about two dozen comics, mostly in the '90s, has often been compared to DC's badass interstellar bounty hunter Lobo, who will be taking up residence this spring in Justice League America. Depending on the nature and scope of the planned cinematic universe Fundamental is developing with the Extreme characters, it may be one of the more difficult properties to "fit in" to the movies.