History ComicBook / YoungbloodJudgmentDay

Once upon a time, there was a man called Creator/RobLiefeld. Near the end of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, his comics began to sell poorly. And there was another man -- Creator/AlanMoore. He felt guilty, because [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke a couple]] [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} of his comics]] drastically changed the industry, when [[FollowTheLeader everybody wanted to do something like him]], thus giving rise to the Dark Age. Those two men met and saw great opportunity with each other. Everything with Moore's name on it was selling, so Liefeld could save his company by hiring him. On the other hand all of Liefeld's heroes were [[CaptainErsatz copies]] of DC/Marvel characters or teams, and Moore got an idea how to use them to appeal to classic comics fans. A deal was struck, with Liefeld basically giving Moore a carte blanche to do whatever he wanted creatively. At first, they started slowly; Moore got ComicBook/{{Supreme}} and turned him into a living love letter to UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} Franchise/{{Superman}}. It worked, so Moore got his hands on all Liefeld's characters. And this is when this story comes to life.

%% * {{Expy}}: The series was full of this as well, as it was heavily inspired by the ''New Comicbook/TeenTitans'' and a number of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} teen hero books:

%% ** Suprema is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, specifically the innocent [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] version and not any of the modern DarkerAndEdgier interpretations.

%% ** Riptide's father Storybook Smith is based off the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero Johnny Thunder.

* InternalDeconstruction: Alan Moore basically uses a metatextual rundown of comics history and the crossover to take the piss out of Rob Liefeld's influence on UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. [[spoiler:Specifically, Sentinel's rewriting of reality was based on his own malformed teenage perception of what superheroes should be like, corrupting the idea of superheroes into gun-toting, scowling maniacs that are more akin to villains than the actual heroes of the past.]]
%% * LighterAndSofter: Seriously, stories in ''Aftermath'' are, with the exception of [=MaxiMage=], classic [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] and UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}} adventures with [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] ex-poster boys.

''Youngblood: Judgment Day'' is a 3-issue miniseries (plus ''Aftermath'' one-shot) written by Moore and drawn by Liefeld and various other artists. ComicBook/{{Youngblood}} team member, Riptide, has been murdered and her fellow teammate, Knightsabre is the main suspect. Because the authorities don't want anything to do with it and it's the first case like that in history, they left the superhero community to handle this, with superheroes as the jury, courtroom, defense, prosecution and judge familiar with the community. But it's all only the beginning of a far greater tale, one older than our world.