Rob Liefeld Using Kickstarter To Produce Free Brigade Comics

And you thought Top Cow drew some ire from fans when they decided to use popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter to fund a free CyberForce miniseries. Well, arguably the most controversial talent in American comics--and a creator who is successful enough that some fans will likely see him as "too rich for Kickstarter"--is headed there to fund a similar project. Rob Liefeld hopes to use crowdfunding to resurrect Brigade, and has launched a Kickstarter campaign so that he can afford to make the initial issues free across digital and print formats, just like Top Cow did with CyberForce. Originally created as a spinoff of Youngblood, Brigade never reached the same level of popularity that book did but it did manage to garner some strong reviews and a cult following back in the day, not unlike the recently-relaunched Prophet, which has become a massive hit based on Liefeld's original concepts. The premise behind the new Brigade is that all time and space is under constant attack by a multitude of threats each attempting to alter the course of human history. A Brigade of heroes is assembled by original team leader Battlestone, who commands a diverse unit of heroes uniquely qualified to defend humanity and preserve the fragile order of things. By definition, "A Brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of up to three to six battalions". The first of many time-bombs has been detonated and the fabric of many realities has begun to crater and change. Check out Liefeld's campaign pitch video below. It's almost as cool as his Levi's ad.