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i loved image comics, warts and all.
i was in high school at that momentous time when basically all of my favorite artists of the day decided to pack up their sizable talents from the cozy confines of marvel, strike out on their own and create something fresh. i was just starting to take drawing seriously at the time and the pioneering spirit of mcfarlane, lee, liefeld, portacio, et al just electrified the passion for drawing which i still hold. say what you will about the early days of image (etched foil hologram covers) and their eventual contribution to the implosion of the industry, but it was still pretty cool to see all of those guys playing in their own, self-constructed sandbox.
it's no surprise, then, that i unabashedly awaited the arrival of image united in my local comic shop. the old gang was back together and playing together in that sandbox again! they were all drawing their own characters! in the same book! on the same page!
cozy and excited in my office chair, i began to read through the first issue a few days ago. and i was conflicted. alternately dazzled by some of the jam pages (an image hallmark) and deflated by any kind of interesting story (an image hallmark...c'mon kirkman!), i realized that this book is pretty much everything that it was advertised to be: a complete throwback to the early days of image. warts and all.
i don't know that the gimmick of everyone working on their character every time they appear is necessarily working. larsen's savage dragon in particluar looks rushed, but then again, i'm no fan of his work. mcfarlane's spawn characters don't look as tight as they did back in the day, despite how awesome the art jam that graces his haunt book's pages looks. liefeld is liefeld. he is what he is. and i still kind of dig that...maybe on a purely nostalgic level. silvestri looks like he can still deliver the goods. and portacio hasn't been given much to do yet, but his "fortess" character looks pretty cool...in an early 90's sort of way. i always felt valentino always image's weak link artistically, but props to him for suiting up again.
at any rate, when i finished the first issue, i wasn't so much disappointed as much as reminded of what those early days of image were like. i think i may still pick up the second issue, but if it's more of the same (as i suspect it will be), i'll neatly bag and file those two issues in my collection. it's not like there aren't 100 other image books in there that i can read when i need my fix of early 90's nostalgia.
and some of those even feature jim lee.
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I guess I was disappointed by an Industry that seemed too ego/name driven, gimmick orientated and by the implosion of way too many badly plotted or drawn titles.
Looking back, maybe I was just nostalgic for the 80’s; the Claremont & Sienkiewicz era of the New mutants (
That's just my 2 cents
1) cross hatching to cover up bad anatomy.
2) the writers don't need artist movement
3) John Byrne being kick off writing the Jim Lee X-Men book, but Marvel didn't bother to tell him
4) Marvel stopped putting artist names on the covers (fearing that image would snatch them up)
5) the mad crazy "incentive" covers like foil embossed holograms.
6) So many issue #1's of books, then waiting for issue #2 that would never come out (mostly a LieField gimmic)
7) 3 major comic distributors rather then just Diamond... (Thanks Marvel, you screwed everyone with the Heroes World Frasco)
8) Girl Power (everyone creating chix characters to increase book sales)
9) so many small publishers as well as large publishers.
10) everything sold 100,000 copies or more.
ah memories
i really do miss the 90's, despite what people might say, the artwork was so much more interesting back then... it had style!
i'm glad to hear they are trying to do stuff again actually, doubt i'll pick any of it up, but still good to know
The different styles on the same page is kind of weird to me. I'll stick to Invincible and Walking Dead.
Art for comic book superheroes was actually exciting back then, even if the stories didn't make sense it was better because we got to see action. Now everything is bogged down in who can draw the most realistic. Superheroes in and of themselves are not real. Wonder why kids aren't buying? Great art now but boring as heck for superheroes.
I'm looking forward to this for the art but, as you kind of say, I'm expecting a lot of rust to show for some of these guys.
It's funny how tastes of changed. I used to love mcfarlane growing up... now it seems so grotesque. But I guess the dynamic style was there.
Kind of a exciting time during those years.. to see a bunch of rockstar artist take control like that and shakeup the comic industry.