In fact, we at the Court were extremely interested due to the involvement of Michigan artist Jim Towe, a guy I’d previously contacted about commission work before (a polite decline due to “working on something big”…). He’d made his bones on the comic con circuit, and seeing how all this actually came to be? Incredible.

The first issue of the new Youngblood features a new, young hero named Petra Gomez, first known as ‘Gunner’ and then ‘Vogue.’ We get the smallest of snippets into her past, tantalizingly placed by writer Chad Bowers, and the way she handles herself immediately endeared her to me as a reader: she’s skilled, motivated, and a great protagonist to serve as the window to view this world.

We’re also treated to the knowledge that this isn’t a hard reboot, but a soft one: the team has grown up and grown apart, the world has moved on, but it’s still the same one Youngblood readers are familiar with. Diehard is now President of the United States (with a killer line on Executive Orders…), Vogue is his first lady, Shaft is in prison, and Badrock…poor Badrock is in rough shape.