Liefeld created the character for his Extreme Studios as the leader of superhero team Youngblood.

[1][2] Jeff Terrel is an undercover FBI agent dating an assistant DA when a sniper tries to kill him at a shopping mall.

His first adventure involves the removal of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator named Hussain Kussein.

Shaft has a prominent cameo in the Shattered Image limited series, attempting to help keep the Earth from splintering off into six different versions.

Each member of the team has their own action figure line; they also star in the in-universe Youngblood cartoon show.