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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 25, 2015 15:04:58 GMT -5
I just read the Maxx: Maximized, a new "remastered" HC of the old Sam Keith series, and I forgot how much I liked this book - Very dark, very funny, very personal, weirdly surrealistic.
Other than the Maxx and stuff written by Warren Ellis and Alan Moore, did Image do anything else good in the '90s?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 15:50:39 GMT -5
-Leave it to Chance by James Robinson and Paul Smith started as an Image series in '96 (later switching to DC when Wildstorm was sold to them).
-I also liked Shaman's Tears by Mike Grell.
-Of course Kurt Busiek's Astro City started at Image in the 90s as well.
Other stuff of interest from 90s Image
-Groo for a bit in the 90s.
-Early Bone issues were also put out by Image as well in '96.
-Collen Doran's A Distant Soil moved to Image in the 90s as well.
-Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise also came form Image in the 90s.
-Bendis Jinx
-Matt Wagner's Mage
-Busiek & Wentzel's OGN A Wizard's Tale
-a return of Mike Baron's Badger
-and James Hudnall's ESPers
-Desperados
-Kabuki
-Shanower's Age of Bronze started in '98
-Bulletproof Monk
probably more I am forgetting...
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 25, 2015 16:57:18 GMT -5
Savage Dragon , man.
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Apr 25, 2015 19:45:43 GMT -5
I remember the old Maxx cartoon and being mesmerized by how surreal it was. Really got to get around to reading the original comics.
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Post by chadwilliam on Apr 25, 2015 21:37:18 GMT -5
I'll second Savage Dragon which Larsen has clearly poured his soul and sweat into. A talented artist and writer just giving it all he has and it's still going.
My favourite Image title however is definitely Big Bang.
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Post by Action Ace on Apr 26, 2015 0:03:19 GMT -5
Kurt Busiek's Astro City is my top pick
1963 by Alan Moore and friends
Leave it to Chance by Robinson/ Smith
Alan Moore's Supreme was under the Image banner a little bit before Liefeld moved it to Maximum Press
Age of Bronze by Shanower
everything else I can think of was Wlidstorm under DC Comics in 1999
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 2:57:17 GMT -5
-Leave it to Chance by James Robinson and Paul Smith started as an Image series in '96 (later switching to DC when Wildstorm was sold to them). -I also liked Shaman's Tears by Mike Grell. -Of course Kurt Busiek's Astro City started at Image in the 90s as well. Other stuff of interest from 90s Image -Groo for a bit in the 90s. -Early Bone issues were also put out by Image as well in '96. -Collen Doran's A Distant Soil moved to Image in the 90s as well. -Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise also came form Image in the 90s. -Bendis Jinx -Matt Wagner's Mage -Busiek & Wentzel's OGN A Wizard's Tale -a return of Mike Baron's Badger -and James Hudnall's ESPers -Desperados -Kabuki -Shanower's Age of Bronze started in '98 -Bulletproof Monk probably more I am forgetting... -M Wow, I didn't know SiP was at Image for a while. Yeah, they did bring in some great titles, but many of them pre-date Image and it's hard for me to think of Groo or A Distant Soil as Image comics. Also, the entire Bone series was published through Image, but the first 27 issues are reprints from his time self publishing the series. It was cool that they brought in some great work that had been floating around either at smaller publishers or self publish labels at that time. It was mutually beneficial and I believe helped shape Image into what it is today far more than a lot of their output at the time ultimately did. I don't believe they often pick up a creator owned project that's been published elsewhere anymore, but that could be because they're the first place everyone submits to now. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 2:59:27 GMT -5
Also, out of the launch titles, it's not all complete garbage. Some of them are fun if you take them for what they are. Some showed expression and innovation for the time. But The Maxx would be the only early EARLY Image exclusive title that I think really holds up today as a truly good comic. I don't think that was a launch comic either, but it was still an early one. Second wave or so.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 3:03:09 GMT -5
Well A Distant Soil is still coming out from Image as of last year, and will continue to do so whenever Doran does new issues, plus all the collections have been reissued through Image, so it pretty much is an Image series now and has been going on 20 years. Even TMNT has some issues come out from Image though. As much as I don't like the content of the stuff put out by the founders, Image represented a place where creators could take projects and get them out to a wider audience and not have to deal with a lot of the headaches of self-publishing. Sometimes the deal works for them, sometimes it doesn't and they take the projects elsewhere. Image pays on the back end, so creators who need up front money may look somewhere else.
Yeah, as a publisher I like a lot of what Image has done, as an imprint that defined a line of books that were their initial offerings, I hated it. It took Mike Grell and Alan Moore doing stuff for them before I would touch an Image book in the 90s, but now there are more Image books that I follow than from any other publisher (albeit in trade).
-M
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Post by DubipR on Apr 26, 2015 9:04:51 GMT -5
Lots of great titles listed. Here's a few more
- Ellis/Raney on Stormwatch, which lead into the Authority in 1999
- Moore's ABC line began in 1999, so that counts
- Trencher (Giffen silliness)
- Tellos (1999)
- Velocity (at least I liked it)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 14:29:09 GMT -5
Ach I forget Tellos! I have a Wieringo print from Tellos hanging in my comic room.
-M
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 26, 2015 14:56:13 GMT -5
-Leave it to Chance by James Robinson and Paul Smith started as an Image series in '96 (later switching to DC when Wildstorm was sold to them). -I also liked Shaman's Tears by Mike Grell. -Of course Kurt Busiek's Astro City started at Image in the 90s as well. Other stuff of interest from 90s Image -Groo for a bit in the 90s. -Early Bone issues were also put out by Image as well in '96. -Collen Doran's A Distant Soil moved to Image in the 90s as well. -Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise also came form Image in the 90s. -Bendis Jinx -Matt Wagner's Mage -Busiek & Wentzel's OGN A Wizard's Tale -a return of Mike Baron's Badger -and James Hudnall's ESPers -Desperados -Kabuki -Shanower's Age of Bronze started in '98 -Bulletproof Monk probably more I am forgetting... -M Man, I forgot 90% of that stuff ever went through Image - and I bought all the Image Bone reprints! Kabuki is still a Caliber Comic in my mind, Stranger in Paradies was Self Published, Badger is First/Dark Horse (At least I thought thwat was where Nexus ended up.) I'm not sure I ever knew that Groo was published by Image... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 17:36:59 GMT -5
Well A Distant Soil is still coming out from Image as of last year, and will continue to do so whenever Doran does new issues, plus all the collections have been reissued through Image, so it pretty much is an Image series now and has been going on 20 years. Even TMNT has some issues come out from Image though. As much as I don't like the content of the stuff put out by the founders, Image represented a place where creators could take projects and get them out to a wider audience and not have to deal with a lot of the headaches of self-publishing. Sometimes the deal works for them, sometimes it doesn't and they take the projects elsewhere. Image pays on the back end, so creators who need up front money may look somewhere else. Yeah, as a publisher I like a lot of what Image has done, as an imprint that defined a line of books that were their initial offerings, I hated it. It took Mike Grell and Alan Moore doing stuff for them before I would touch an Image book in the 90s, but now there are more Image books that I follow than from any other publisher (albeit in trade). -M Wow, I had no idea about that with A Distant Soil. I only have a handful of issues, but I thought they were self publishing after they left WaRP and figured they still were. I know the series just kicked off again but hadn't checked it out |
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Post by fanboystranger on Apr 26, 2015 18:46:07 GMT -5
I'd argue that the real change point for Image was when Valentino started his b&w "non-line". He basically invited a bunch of up-and-comers like Bendis (and many others who had worked for Calibre, etc) to start publishing their comics through Image. You end up with books like Jinx, Paradigm, and a bunch more that courted more critical praise than commercial success, but really changed the perception of what Image was. It would flower when Valentino and Erik Larsen would become successive Editor-in-Chiefs, and has really exploded under Eric Stephenson, who always had a great eye for talent.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 22:07:00 GMT -5
My Exposure of Image in the 90's
Kurt Busiek's Astro City
Savage Dragon
WildCATS
Kabuki
Bulletproof Monk
Just these 5 titles only.
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