The offical Image Comics Thread!!!!

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

image comics is the 3rd biggest comic book company in the world, behind marvel and DC comics. they are most famous for Spawn and the walking dead, and of course, volume 3 of TMNT.

what makes Image comics unique is that they only allow self-published material. this is a great opportunity for people to make comic books and have a say in their comic.

what do people think about Image comics?

[Leo656]

I think they helped kill the industry in the 90s. Art over storytelling (or, more specifically, "blood, giant guns, and chicks with giant breasts in impossibly tiny bikini outfits over storytelling"), eternally late books, the cover-gimmick fad, all of a sudden every "artist" who'd ever drawn a page at Marvel being called a "superstar" and getting paid ridiculous salaries... let's be fair, a LOT of bad came from Image. The Marvel crew splitting off and starting Image was an important and necessary message to the Big Two about treating their talent better, except for two things: 1, most of those guys went right back to working for the Evil Empire within a couple years at most, and 2, literally nothing has changed in the industry as far as company-talent relations, especially if the horror stories coming out of DC post-New 52 are any indication. So Image really wasn't much of a revolution, more like a marketing gimmick.

I remember when they started up, because my Dad was a huge Image mark. He immediately went out and picked up the entire first batch of Image books, as well as almost the entire first year's worth, back when he and everyone else thought that Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane comics were going to be paying for their kids' college. It's funny how the idea for "new, creator-designed" characters just led to a bunch of guys who looked like re-colored Wolverine and Spider-Man clones, but with guns.

You could say I'm not a huge fan, at least of their early-mid 90s stuff. They were CRAZY over-pushed and over-hyped back then. Don't believe me? Track down any random issue of Wizard from 1993-1994, and read 300 or so pages of people talking about books and characters that were "hot" at the time and that no one has ever mentioned since. That was annoying as hell.

[ObiWanFan4life]

^ My thoughts exactly. Personally, I dislike Image for their tendency to go overboard with the violence.

[jbeeman85]

So we have Image to blame for there being like 5 covers for every new issue out there? Whether it's Image's fault or not, I owe whoever a super kick. It makes having a "complete" collection of modern comics near impossible.

I have several different comics from Image (Brigade, Newmen, Prophet) mostly because the Walgreen's by my house would have issues for around $1 and I didn't know any better. I was drawn in by the colors, guns, and boobs.

Now, the Ninja Turtles comics from Image have been by far the hardest for me to track down. If you don't count the variations of the first printing of the original 4 Turtles issues, the Image ones seem to be the most expensive when I actually do find them.

[Pterobat]

Image still deserves praise for the material it puts out now. Saga is one fine book, and I've been meaning to check out their other stuff.

And while the blood-and-muscles era was mostly bad, I'll defend Sam Keith's The Maxx to my grave.

[Leo656]

You're right, The Maxx was great. I forget to mention that sometimes but yeah, it really was. I loved the cartoon, also. My hatred of Spawn sometimes makes me forget that not everything Image did was Marvel rip-offs, big guns and chicks in thongs.

[RaphaelsIsolation]

Saga is amazing, so is a new comic, called...

Sheltered. Awesome book! TPB just came out! I have all 5 issues though.

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

Didn't expect this thread to make a comeback at all.

[Blossombrooks]

I love Saga too! I'm totally addicted. Just read 15 and 16 so now I'm trying really hard not to go ahead and get 17 straight away...*lying*