Super-powered operatives Cabbot Stone, Fourplay, Deadlock, Shogun and Tag have all fallen in the line of duty.  Project Born Again has found a way to resurrect them as part of a government assassination program. Born Again seeks to run covert missions using dead men.  Defeat can mean death but never an escape.  Bloodstrike agents are condemned to eternal resurrection until their value is completely exhausted and the unseen power brokers order their charred bones will be cast aside for the next unfortunates.  Through a haze distorted memories and mounting contempt persisting into the next life, Bloodstrike won’t accept their rotten luck for much longer.

Much like his self-published series COPRA homages with John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad, Fiffe’s work on Brutalists has an undeniable and enviable passion for the project. He is enjoying himself immensely for this opportunity to contribute to this forgotten series with new stories. Bloodstirke originally ran between 1993 and 1995 as a spinoff book to the first ever Image Comics series Youngblood by Rob Liefeld. As with all early Image comics it is born out of some of the most popular Marvel Comics artists growing dissatisfied with the bosses they were making rich to go build their own publisher and handle their own books. Youngblood as Liefeld’s vision of a high-profile team of government-sanctioned superheroes who enjoyed all the glitz and glamour that came with superstardom. Bloodstirke was the grittier and meaner spinoff book about the operatives hidden in the shadows and deprived of everything. Everything except the mission.