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Dude I was there the day Image started. When Liefeld told Dave Ohlbrich from Malibu he was defecting. I was on the phone with Dave when Rob walked in.Originally posted by Rictor
Heh. Spawn and Savage Dragon are still around from the original Image guys. Sam Kieth's stuff still sells well. Jim Lee is stil hot as hell. His Batman was the highest selling book of the year. They guy just draws kickass funny books.
Liefeld and the rest of the Image crew...most of their stuff can be found in the 50 cent bin next to all that Valiant and Defiant crap. I liked to Valiant comic for the first couple years, then they started hiring mediocre artists and writers, probably to save money after Acclaim bought them out. The reason that company was successful in the beginning was quality, and they failed because they decided to go for gimmick covers and other crap instead of putting out a quality product. The only good book from the Acclaim days was Quantum and Woody.
Marc Silvestri is the crowning star of Image. He can draw anything and make it look awesome.
Cappulo's work on Spawn is awesome too.
Yet Image's tactics after they got large with all the #1's etc. just gummed things up. Books from the mainstream don't even sell over 100k anymore. Perhaps a small few.
It's about quality and marketing and knowing the right people to push your product. Hack shit sells because it gets promoted more. Now that the industry is getting it's ass kicked, the independents again are holding up the fort.
If you put out comics and expect them to sell via the mainstream marketing profile you're dead in the water.Comment
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I agree, and Liefeld's early art work on Youngblood was horrible. He can't draw hands properly. I think Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Dale Keown and Marc Silverstri are some of the best modern comic artists ever.Originally posted by Rictor
Heh. Spawn and Savage Dragon are still around from the original Image guys. Sam Kieth's stuff still sells well. Jim Lee is stil hot as hell. His Batman was the highest selling book of the year. They guy just draws kickass funny books.
Liefeld and the rest of the Image crew...most of their stuff can be found in the 50 cent bin next to all that Valiant and Defiant crap. I liked to Valiant comic for the first couple years, then they started hiring mediocre artists and writers, probably to save money after Acclaim bought them out. The reason that company was successful in the beginning was quality, and they failed because they decided to go for gimmick covers and other crap instead of putting out a quality product. The only good book from the Acclaim days was Quantum and Woody.I sale cheap sigwhoreComment
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anyone have any mint Spawn?Comment
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There should be alot of mint spawn comics out there. I have the first 50, but I'm keeping those.Originally posted by bhutocracy
anyone have any mint Spawn?I sale cheap sigwhoreComment
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I think Dale Keown overdosed between issue 7 and 8 of Pitt.
Or are we still waiting for #9 and trying to figure out what he was trying to do between issue 1-?
The Image guys were going to save us from the evil Marvel and DC :sell outs" and "skin deeps".
They lied big time and sold their souls for rock and roll.
I don't care what anyone says, I believe comics are an incredible genre.
Where else can you combine:
great writing, excellent reading, imagination, fabulous artwork, the occasional hard-on, (after 1977), and a decent dose of humanity?
Rictor;
If you ever get up to the Toronto area I think we should get together for a beer or 12 and discuss life.
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