Youngblood #5

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• 8.6

  Fanlight Zone - Ken M.

  Apr 22, 2026

  There is never a true calm before the storm in dealing with Youngblood as they prepare for issue #100. Liefeld’s writing gets his key players staged for the cataclysmic battle. The art flourishes with the proper intensity fitting for what’s coming. There’s no reasonable way not be amped up for what’s coming next! Read Full Review

• 4.5

  AIPT - Jonathan Waugh

  Apr 21, 2026

  While not to everyone's tastes, Youngblood #5 is more of the same from Rob Liefeld, for all the good and bad that entails. Read Full Review

• 3.0

  You Don't Read Comics - Russ Bickerstaff

  Apr 22, 2026

  One gets the feeling that Liefeld’s stuff is such an echo of an echo that it wouldn’t be difficult for AI to generate whole runs of Youngblood and it would be every bit as coherent as what Liefled’s putting on the page in his latest effort. There’s also a back-up teenage mutant ninja turtles spoof that Liefeld pads-out the issue with. Rob Liefeld’s A.C.R.O.Bats might have been kind of fun in the era of Pre-Teen, Dirty Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos or Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters or Boris the Bear, but the 1980s retro indie feel of the back-up story feels kind of weak and pointless in a more conteporary era of comic books. It feels just...kinda bland in a contemporary era. Read Full Review