in early 1994, todd was hired by rob liefeld's extreme studios of image comics when a friend from art school showed his "wildguard" work to dan fraga at a comic book convention, who in turn showed it to liefeld, which led to nauck's first image work. nauck went on to draw such series as "badrock and co.", "new men", "new force", "supreme", "youngblood" and "team youngblood". by 1997, nauck began work with dc comics. after drawing several "legion of superheroes" stories, he helped launch the "young justice" series with writer peter david. nauck drew 53 issues of the 55 issue run of the series, including three double-sized issues and a portion of the "young justice/spyboy" crossover mini-series.