Extreme Universe

The Extreme Universe is made up of the comics published by Extreme Studios (1992-1995), Maximum Press (1995-1997), Awesome Comics, also called Awesome Entertainment and Awesome-Hyperwerks (1997-2000), Avatar Press (1999-2002), Arcade Comics (2003-2006, plus one issue in 2014), Image Comics (2008-current), Kickstarter and Indiegogo (2019), and Whatnot (2024-current). It first appeared in 1992's Youngblood #1 and was created by Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld. This article presents its comics' fictional chronology; for the real-life publication history, see Extreme Studios.

In 1996, Alan Moore introduced the concept of Revisions, Extreme's version of reboots, allowing for a clear separation of continuities, as well as introducing the concept that there were previous versions of the universe prior to the one first printed by Liefeld.

The Early Extremes

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The "first" Extreme universe

The early Extreme revisions mimic real comic book history, with each respective decade referencing what the Superman comics were like through the years. According to Supreme #41, the original Supreme is born in 1920, obtains his powers in 1930 and fights evil in Omega City, with his romantic interest being Judy Jordan and his arch-enemy being Dax, a crime boss. Their reality lasts until it's Revised in 1941. The second iteration of the universe, lasting through the 40s, replaces the grounded mob criminals with Nazi mad scientists. The Revisions of the 50s reference the high amount of imaginary stories from DC's Silver Age, with characters such as Squeak the Supremouse, Supremite, Fat Supreme, Supreme-of-the-Future and a cowboy Six-Gun Supreme.

The 1960s revisions introduce King Supreme, who, upon being exiled to limbo after his reality is revised away, builds the Supremacy to house himself and all previously discarded Supremes. Their foes, transported to a separate limbo, build an analogous city, Daxia.

The 70s revisions introduce a Black, female Sister Supreme, referencing interest in social justice that arose during the Bronze Age of comic books, while the 80s Revisions mirror the dark comic books of the era, with Supreme being gritty, his girlfriend being traumatized and his Darius Dax being a grim, tittering transvestite serial killer.

The first instace of a Rob Liefeld-penned Extreme Universe came about in 1987, even if it wasn't the first one to see print; Liefeld drew sample pages about a team named Youngblood which resembled the Legion of Super-Heroes. The pages were later printed in Youngblood '87 Ashcan #1 and in Youngblood by Joe Casey and Rob Liefeld #1. In this Revision, Youngblood is a super-hero government task force. One of their members is Sonik, and member Psi-Fire's real name is Derek. Their training program is called the Youth Brigade, and includes Thumbelina. After an unseen incident with someone in the Youth Brigade named Copycat, Youngblood decides to host open auditions for new members outside of the Brigade, but when they reject a prospect named Tinker, he swears revenge on the team. Sonik, Thumbelina and Tinker have not appeared in any other Revisions.

In 1992, the world was Revised yet again, retroactively giving place to Rob Liefeld's Extreme Universe.

Rob Liefeld's Extreme

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This iteration of Extreme shares its creation myth with the Bible, and the Christian God is its canonical God. In the early days of Earth, aliens called The Keep infect the environment with a virus called the Nu-Gene, planting the seed for modern humans to develop superpowers, for eventual harvesting as slaves to The Keep.

World War II: Supreme, Glory, Prophet, the Allies

On the eve of World War II, Germany citizen Jonathan Prophet is turned into a super soldier by Doctor Horatio Wells, who is looking to create assets capable of freeing the world from the looming threat of alien tyrant Darkthornn, who has conquered Earth in the future of 2050 that Wells has escaped from. When one of Darkthornn's agents reprograms Prophet to kill Wells, the Doctor sends him through time to different eras so that with each lifetime lived Prophet can gain experience that allows his mind to re-develop. To shape his moral psyche, Wells uses the one thing he knows can give Prophet all the answers he will require: the Bible. Eventually, Prophet ends up in the present day of 1992, an amnesiac.

Back in the 40s, with Prophet gone, Wells turns the American son of a Priest, Ethan Crane, into a super soldier as well, birthing the super hero Supreme.

Meanwhile, the Nu-Gene creates the race of the Amazonians, who reside in the dimension of Amazonia. The immortal Glory, daughter of Amazonian Lady Demeter and Lord Silverfall of the underworld, feels at peace in neither world, and when her violent streak product of her father makes her too unruly to be among the Amazons, she searches for her own path in Europe.

In 1943, Supreme and Glory join Roman of the underwater city of Neuport, Diehard, SuperPatriot, Mighty Man and Battlestone to form the superhero team The Allies during World War II. Supreme battles his arch-rival, Zachariah Grizlock, and grows arrogant and bloodthirsty. Some months after Hitler's suicide, he begins an argument with his mentor, Father Beam, and accidentally kills him. Full of grief, Supreme flies to space and exiles himself from Earth. In there, he makes enemies such as Khrome.

In the 70s, Battlestone's father, Michael, becomes the radical terrorist Quantum, declaring war on humanity for opressing Nu-Genes. He's stopped and imprisoned by a team of heroic Nu-Genes known as the New Men. Unknown to the heroes, they're being led by a servant of The Keep, preparing the Nu-Gene individuals to be harvested when his masters return.

The present: Youngblood, Bloodstrike, Brigade, Operation: Knightstrike

After Lucifer is dethroned in Hell, he escapes back in time, landing in the year 1980. He adopts the human guise of Alexander Graves and rises in the ranks of the Pentagon, creating the government task force Youngblood so that they'll defeat his opponent for the throne of Hell when the time comes. The core team is composed by Vogue, a Russian defector who escaped her country's version of Youngblood, Redblood; the Katellan alien Combat and the Acuran alien Photon, whose planets are bitter rivals; a new Diehard, replacing the one who fought in World War II -- despite being mostly mechanical, he becomes Vogue's lover; brutal assassin and HIV-positive Chapel; Cougar, son of a human woman and the king of Jakkaria, a tribe of cat-people hidden in the depths of Zaire; Sentinel, an inventor who built himself a suit of armor; their leader Shaft, an ex FBI agent who uses a bow and nothing but his human skills to keep up with the rest of the team, despite having a latent, apparently dormant Nu-Gene; and Badrock, who drank an experimental serum in his father's lab at age 16 and his hide turned to rock, making him immortal.

Other task forces pop up in quick succession; unlike in the previous Revision, Youngblood's training program is not named the Youth Brigade, but Bloodpool. In it, agents work to graduate into Youngblood, but after budget cuts disband the program, the Bloodpool become an independent force. Operation: Knightstrike handles off-the-book military deployments -- Members include Battlestone, his brother Cabbot, a woman named Yuki, Chapel and his best friend Al Simmons. When Al develops a conscience, CIA boss Jason Wynn orders Agent Jessica Priest to murder him, sending Al's soul to Hell, where its inhabitants manipulate his memories and Chapel's to make both men believe Chapel was Al's killer. After Cabbot dies through unrevealed means, he's ressurected via the government's Project: Born Again and made leader of Bloodstrike, a team of expendable soldiers who are part of Project: Born Again, which allows them to come back to life as zombies over and over. Besides Cabbot, Deadlock, Fourplay, Shogun and Tag round up the roster. The division is briefly directed by Leonard Noble before he's found out as a Covenant of the Sword spy and killed. Before Shaft led Youngblood, Bloodstone was team leader, until a mission against Iraqi forces made him snap under pressure and fatally strike an underling from a group of cloned troops supporting Youngblood. Bloodstone was discharged and replaced by Shaft, so he struck out on his own to form Brigade, which repurposes characters from the previous Revision's Youth Brigade. Unlike all the other teams, Brigade are vigilante superheroes working outside of the law, originally motivated by Battlestone wanting to expose Project: Born Again's cruelty and the fact that it uses superhumans as test subjects to eventually make it viable for human politicians, until all of the government can become one big sham.

Supreme returns; the next wave of heroes

These heroes, with all their shades of gray, battle villains such as The Four, Prince Genocide, rogue Youngblood member Psi-Fire (whose real name is David in this Revision, instead of Derek like in 1987), Cybernet and the Brotherhood of Man. In Space, Supreme is attacked by Loki, the Norse God, who wants to kill the hero to bring about Ragnarok; Loki targets Supreme and his legacy simultaneously, involving his descendants from 30th century, including a descendant named Probe. The mysterious other-dimensional being called Enigma rescues Supreme and places him in the orbit of Earth in 1992, but the move leaves the hero an amnesiac, and he must discover how to fit in the modern world, gaining a sidekick in Kid Supreme along the way. Awakening at the same time, Prophet undergoes a similar journey, while facing his evil clone Crypt, created by Darkthornn. When the angel Avengelyne questions God and tells Him that humans are undeserving of His love, she's exiled to Earth, to walk naked among humans and ponder His judgement until the moment they speak again, living in the world of street-level vigilantes such as Cybrid, Knightmare and Priest. The bounty hunter Bloodwulf travels the cosmos. The immortal Troll, the mysterious Knightsabre and Cybernet defector Dutch join Youngblood. Shaft's dad, Colonel Bravo, travels through time, popping in and out of the timestream in order to keep Earth safe like others such as Link, the New Man and Jeriko. Lori Saunders is trained by the Ancient to become Maximage, destined enemy of The Keep.

Extreme Prejudice, Extreme Sacrifice, Extreme Destroyer

Eventually, Quantum escapes prison and murders most of Bloodstrike, with Cabbot being the only member left; he takes on the name of his team as his solitary codename. Chapel splits into Lord Chapel, is revealed to be the demon who dethroned Lucifer, and must be stopped; he defeats Supreme, but, wanting the kill for himself, Loki swaps the hero with his future daughter Probe, who acts as Supreme in a male body until she recovers her memories and takes on the name Lady Supreme, performing amazing feats such as delivering the killing blow to Darkthornn. Brigade is raided by the government and Bloodstone is arrested and brainwashed into serving the government again; while the rest of team are licking their wounds, Crypt brutally murders most of them. The Keep arrive on Earth, and Quantum surprisingly defeats their leader, taking over the role and accepting the heavy responsibility of leading them away from the planet.

Following the ultimate defeat of Loki by the returning, real Supreme, a revision happens, erasing this continuity. This coincides with the reality-dissolving attack of Entropy, who separates the Extreme population from the larger Image Universe, but whether this triggered the Revision is not explicitly stated. After being vanished to the Supremacy like all his precessors, Liefeld's Supreme is imprisoned by his fellow Supremes as he is too aggressive to be civil.

While the Revision is explicitly said to occur in the year 1996, many stories published during this era take place in what was the near future, showcasing groups that wouldn't get a chance to exist because of the Revision, such as Doom's IV from the year 1997 or the Cyberpunx from the year 2000; nevertheless, their characters do count and will return.

Alan Moore's Extreme

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This version of the universe eschews its Christian roots; this time, the Big Bang is a mystical phenomenon called the Kaboom Cycle, and each cycle is protected by warriors named Kaboom who do battle with each other using gloves called The Pair which tap into the cycle's energy. These roles are passed from generation to generation for all eternity. Humanity was not created by God, but by alien beings known as The Company, who planted the seeds of humanity and their version of the Nu-Gene, this time called the Re:Gex. The Company created the races of demons, angels and even this iteration of God. The parting of the Red Sea, traditionally attributed to Moses, is actually caused by a time-traveling Supreme, who also sets a bush on fire using his heat vision, making Moses believe he's found God. At Mount Sinai, it's The Company's aliens who give Moses his Ten Commandments.

Golden Age

Amazonia, now called Ultima Thule, is the birthplace of Glory yet again, but her mother Lady Demeter is reimagined as the actual goddess Demeter from Greek myth, and her father's underworld as the actual Greek Underworld ruled by Hades. Hermes, God of Language, invents the Book of Judgment, a tome that contains all stories that were or will be, placing it in the world of matter so that, when life arises, it will have meaning.

As The Book makes the history of the world unfold, Troll is reimagined as an actual kobold from the Fifth Century who befriends a Conan the Barbarian-like figure named Bram the Berserker and eventually obtains the Book of Judgement. The Maximages are reimagined as Earth's sorcerer supremes, existing in every era; one of the first is Merlin, who wins the Book of Judgment in a game of cards and re-writes pages of it to manipulate his stooge Arthur into becoming King of Camelot.

This iteration of the Wild West is populated with cowboy superheroes, such as Kid Thunder, Brimstone Kid, and the Lonesome Rider. The 20th Century sees the appearance of the Tarzan-like Zantar, White God of the Congo; in the 1920s, Prophet, cycling through time like his previous iteration, becomes known as the Man of Marble, a Doc Savage-like figure. Ethan Crane is no longer the son of a Priest, instead born to two farmers in the rural town of Littlehaven. Doctor Wells, who originally tortured Ethan into becoming a super soldier, is now Littlehaven's local professor (even as he still comes from the future and created Prophet), and Ethan gains powers after he and his dog are exposed to the radiation of the mysterious Supremium meteorite. Kid Supreme is no longer the name of Supreme's sidekick, but the identity Ethan uses during his youth; Radar, for his part, helps Kid Supreme as the Super Hound. Ethan's arch-enemy is named Darius Dax instead of Zachariah Grizlock, and Kid Supreme makes super-powered friends in the League of Infinity, a team of teenage heroes from across all of time. After becoming of age, Ethan moves to Omega City, renames himself Supreme, his adopted sister Sally becomes Suprema, and the two watch over the city in their floating Citadel Supreme. Supreme imprisons his foes in the Hell of Mirrors, actually the land of Wonderland from the Alice in Wonderland series of books.

During World War II, Supreme and Glory join the Allies, now named Allied Supermen of America, alongside others like Roman, Diehard, Mighty Man or the Batman-and-Robin pastiches Professor Night and Twilight, the Girl Marvel. Glory dates the Steve Trevor-like Trevor Tracy, Supreme, President Kennedy and fellow Goddess Hermione Sweetlove, unbound in her sexuality. Sam Smith, mascot of the Roarin' Roughnecks, a pastiche of Sgt. Fury's Howling Commandos, ends up with The Book, and he rewrites it to make himself into the superhero Storybook Smith, as well as give himself a wife and daughter in what is a form of existential rape. They birth a girl named Leanna, future Riptide, member of Youngblood. The idealistic Allied Supermen disband in New Year's Eve, 1949, after a vision shows them the 50s will be plagued by nuclear panic, rampant corruption, drug-abuse, racism, materialism, porn, unemployment and mental illnesses. During the 50s, Fighting American fills the void of crime-fighting against the Soviet menace.

Silver Age

In the 60s, the Allied Supermen regroup to defeat the alien menace of Florax, deciding to stick together under the new name of the Allies with new members such as Spacehunter, a Martian Manhunter-like character. In 1968, Darius Dax dies of cancer from Supremium exposure. Upon his death, a memoir he wrote in prison is sent to Supreme's love interest Judy Jordan, and micro-machines inside it erase her consciousness and install a copy of Darius'. Using Judy's body, he bids his time. The next year, Supreme's foe Optilux ascends into a higher plane in what looks like an act of suicide. This, on top of Supreme's parents passing on, and "Judy" learning karate and becoming involved in women's rights, make Supreme decide to abandon Earth to find himself. Suprema takes over her brother's role protecting their city, but less than a year afterwards, Gorrl, the Living Galaxy, threatens the galaxy unless it can find a suitable human companion. Suprema must marry it, and they disappear in a black hole. In 1970, the Allies break up. Optilux, seeking to turn all the material universe into light for religious purposes, kidnaps almost every active hero remaining to use as batteries, and human society looks mundane again. In Space, Supreme undergoes a psychedelic experience when he uses his will supreme to draw back the curtains of his nature as a comic book character, the shock of which leaves him amnesiac and drifting for years.

Dark Age

Marcus Langston is a poor kid living among criminals. When his father steals the Book of Judgment, Marcus rewrites it to prevent dying from an overdose and he writes himself into becoming Sentinel, the first modern hero and founding member of Youngblood. In this Revision, the Diehard who is a member of Youngblood is not a new individual, but the same who fought during World War II. However, Sentinel doesn't stop his rewrites there, giving himself a wife in another act of existential rape and making Youngblood's missions nastier, shadowier and more violent, drawing forth a Dark Age. Like in the previous Revision, Operation: Knightstrike is founded, as well as Bloodstrike, once again led by Cabbot Stone. For the first time, we see his cause of death that led to his resurrection via Project: Born Again: a monster called the Psychopanth. The New Men come to be. Eventually, Supreme finds his way to Earth in 1996, when the Revision actually first happens, its previous history only then appearing into existence. Supreme manages to defeat Dax in Judy's body; to his surprise, the battle ends with Dax falling backwards through time, becoming the Supremium meteorite that first created Supreme. Supreme saves Judy's consciousness in a robotic replica of her original body, and he finds a new girlfriend in Diana Dane. When Cabbot Stone attempts to escape the Bloodstrike program, he and his girlfriend Yuki are killed, but Cabbot's resurrection is botched and he comes out as a slow, mangled thing resembling Frankenstein's monster. He's ordered to hunt down his original squad members, who have gone rogue after cheating death via clones.

During a Youngblood barbecue at Sentinel's house, Riptide recognises The Book of Judgement that used to belong to her father and steals it. Sentinel kills her for it, unknowingly fanning a centuries-old family feud, as Sentinel's ancestor was Kid Thunder, an escaped slave, and Riptide's was Deliverance Drue, a puritan adventurer and a Solomon Kane pastiche who died cursing the Langston bloodline over ownership of The Book. In the ensuing trial, Knightsabre is revealed to be Alexander Graves' son, as Youngblood's Director is fully human in this continuity. Sentinel is found guilty, but Youngblood's funding is cut and is ordered to disband due to the impact to their public image. With Sentinel's influence over, the world is able to move onto a new era of unlimited posibilities.

Modern Age

Shaft is approached by Waxey Doyle, a retired 1940s super hero, who convinces him to let him fund a new incarnation of Youngblood in order to relive his youth by proxy. The new team is mostly teenagers, comprised of Doc Rocket, speedster and grandaughter of World War II's Doc Rocket; a grown-up Twilight; Johnny Panic, son of Darius Dax; a returned, unaged Suprema, and Waxey's adopted son and genius builder of giant mech robots, Big Brother.

Fighting American resurfaces in modern times, gaining a sidekick in S.P.I.C.E.. The Allies reform with Thor among their ranks. The New Men are folded into the Conquerors of the Uncanny, a Challengers of the Unknown-type team. Geof Sunrise and Kyra Knight become the latest Kabooms, trained by The Zang, a Kaboom wielder from the future. The Coven, a group of witches, devils, vampires and descendants of the Biblical Abel debut, dedicated to securing mystic artifacts that would change the world forever if fallen into the wrong hands. Avengelyne has everything she knows proven to be wrong as she's captured by The Company's ruler, Sharpe, and she helps Re:Gex, an underground resistance against the Company's upcoming harvest. A new, short-lived Brigade debuts, consisting of former Youngblood Badrock, the Kabooms, former New Woman Dash, S.P.I.C.E., and the Kid Supreme of the previous Revision, Danny Fuller. Wanting to understand mortality, Glory begins sharing a body with human Gloria West, a schizophrenic waitress, but Glory's arch-enemy, Lilith, tricks Gloria's boyfriend into making her take antipsychotics, sending Glory's possession into disarray.

Ultimately, the Darius Daxes of past Revisions realize all their old rivals, the Supremes, have been persisting in a limbo of their own, and launch an attack against their Supremacy. This catastrophic attack triggers a new Revision.

Blue Rose Extreme

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This revision, perhaps more than any other, requires an introduction. It first appeared in the issue of Supreme immediately following the end of Alan Moore's Revision, Erik Larsen's Supreme #65. It was part of a publishing initiative that relaunched a number of Extreme titles, including Glory, Bloodstrike, Youngblood and Prophet, but only Bloodstrike referenced the events of Supreme in any way. Supreme #65 directly addressed the events of the ending of Alan Moore's story, where the Supremacy was destroyed. The issue was confused by the publication of 2014's Warren Ellis' Supreme Blue Rose, which presumed to be a new direct sequel to Moore, with both Larsen and Ellis claiming to show what happened to the character of Alan Moore's Ethan Crane. Therefore, both series must happen simultaneously. Adding to the chaos, 2019's Brigade (Volume 5) #1 revealed the 2012 publishing initiative to have taken place in an alternate Earth, but the narrative of Larsen's Supreme and 2012's Bloodstrike necessitates that they follow immediately from Alan Moore's Revision, so they "count" outside of the bubble the 2012 titles were secluded off to. What follows is an attempt at reconciling the narratives of Larsen and Ellis's Supremes as best as possible, accounting for the superhero-filled backstory presented by Bloodstrike despite Blue Rose intending for its world to resemble ours as closely as possible until the point its story begins.

Backstory

The backstory of this new Revision combines elements of both Rob Liefeld and Alan Moore's Extremes; on one hand, you have Liefeld-exclusive characters appearing such as Khylund, Prince of the Jakkara tribe of cat-people in Zaire, or the street-level vigilante Knightmare, but you also have Moore-exclusive elements such as the World War II superhero team being named the Allied Supermen of America, and these separate elements are intermingled for the first time.

Some elements are brand new: Cabbot Stone used the name Slingstone, fighting enemies such as the Gecko and the Lacerator in 1967 before joining a team called the Young Americans with Skipper, Suprema, Twilight and Kid Achilles. They fought enemies such as Doctor Moth, Quasimodo, and Dober-Man and his Dog Soldiers. Suprema is revealed to have had her first kiss from Twilight in a moment of experimentation.

Cabbot led Bloodstrike after his death and resurrection via Project: Born Again. Unlike in the Alan Moore Revision, his death did not come from the Hieropanth, but from taking a bullet meant for someone else in a selfless act during the year 1983. Nu-Genes are no longer called Re:Gexes, and are sometimes called by a new term, "H.E.s" (Human Enhanciles).

The menace of Mean Supreme

The violent trigger that caused this Revision creates a damaged reality, with time being an unstable bubble whose radiation, if mapped out, forms the shape of a blue rose. Due to the error, several individuals from the Alan Moore Revision still persist here, including Suprema, Supreme, his girlfriend Diana, his foe Televillain, and his Allied Supermen teammates Jack O'Lantern, Doc Rocket, and Storybook Smith. Supreme attempts to save civilians from the falling debris of the Supremacy, but after failing to save everyone, he lashes out in grief and locks his Ethan Crane persona away, secluding himself as he feels a white guy who doesn't know anything shouldn't be an interventionist god for the world. He hides with a Judith Jordan from an unidentified previous Revision.

The few survivors of the Supremacy from older Revisions - the original Supreme, 1950s Supreme, Squeaky the Supremouse, and 1970s Sister Supreme - have to wrestle with finding a place in a world that is not their own, especially after they're depowered, and even as they have to stop Rob Liefeld's Supreme, who goes on a violent rampage across the world. Dubbed "Mean Supreme", he fights famed hero and father of Invincible, Omni-Man, as well as Khromium, the son of his old enemy Khrome, who traveled to this reality either from the Rob Liefeld Revision or by escaping from a Supremacy holding cell. After Mean Supreme brutally beats Suprema, her memories of the Alan Moore Revision fade away and she's replaced by her Blue Rose counterpart, so she abandons the cause of defeating Mean Supreme and seeks comfort from her beating in her old Young American teammates.

At Bloodstrike, Cabbot is joined by a new Fourplay (bisexual woman Kennedy Marx), Deadlock (Samuel Christopher Hicks), Tag (a woman who believes herself to be Ventura Valentina Vlasco, but who has repressed memories of Youngblood members Shaft and Task, hinting at a buried real identity) and Shogun (Andre Xavier Lord). They fight enemies such as Cybernet, the Memphites, Quantum, The Quanta, followers of Quantum's ideology led by Synthesis; Hippo, the Black Bride, the Urban Knight, and a returned Doctor Moth, which prompts a reunion of the Young Americans. Meanwhile, the original Fourplay resurfaces after being believed dead and Project: Born Again's monopoly on the resurrection business is threatened by Leonard Noble, former Director of Bloodstrike.

The search for Ethan Crane

Natives to the Blue Rose Revision, Darius Dax is reimagined as a Black man and CEO of a megacorporation, while employing individuals such as Alan Moore's Televillain and the Blue Rose Twilight, her superhero background seemingly overwritten by that of a normal, Black civilian. Lady Supreme is reimagined as Doctor Chelsea Henry, a lesbian physics professor at a New York University, and Doctor Wells as her Black colleague. Professor Night exists as a mere fictional TV show character, Khrome is not an alien, but the name of an Omegapolis hotel, and the headquarters of the Allied Supermen of America become a bar named Always.

Four months after the Supremacy's fall, the Blue Rose Darius finds Alan Moore's Supreme and kills him using a Sci-Fi gun found in the ruins of the Supremacy, triggering a new Revision.

Avatar Press and Arcade Comics' Extreme

In this era of sporadic publications, the Allied Supermen of America are renamed as the Liberty League and Fighting American is replaced by the Free Agent.

Operation: Knightstrike exists before Youngblood instead of simultaneously, and the leak of Knightstrike's black-op assassinations to the press forces the Pentagon to create Youngblood in an attempt to improve their public image and distract the public. Once again, Alexander Graves is human rather than a disguise of Lucifer, and he gets the name for the team from catching a song in the radio from the real-life band The Youngbloods. In Rob Liefeld's Revision, Riptide was granted her powers to control water from an entity in an underwater cave called the Sea Witch, but in the Arcade Revision, the entity is renamed to the Witch of the Green. Several core moments from Rob Liefeld's Revision, such as Battlestone snapping during an Iraqi mission and killing a clone soldier, which gets him discharged from Youngblood and gets Shaft brought in, or Quantum's escape and defeat by both Youngblood and the New Men, are simplified, with both happening in the span of a few days. The cloned troops are now regular humans deployed "so that troops won't feel inadequate in the age of super-humans", and Quantum's attack is his debut, not a return.

In the present time, Avengelyne teams up with Avatar Press's Pandora, Coral, Onyx and Shi, fights the group of vampires known as the Ravening, is transported through time to 92 AD's Rome, where she opposes Emperor Domitian and the demons Beset, Vulcan and Nero, and visits the world of sword and sorcery known as the Dragon Realm.

Reading order

See also: Extreme Universe Recommended Reading Order