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 Post subject: Favorite comic series ever published by Image
PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:35 pm 
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Mine is probably Fell, by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith. It is kind of a creepy noir detective series. There are overtones of the occult, but the reader is never told if magic is real or not.

Also, I'm a sucker for a nine-panel grid.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:39 pm 
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Fatale by Brubaker and Philips.

Nothing else comes close for me, with the caveat that I've never read Astro City and the rest of my Image experiences consists three issues of Spawn and the first issue of Youngblood from the quarter bin.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:42 pm 
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Fatale's great. Spawn and Youngblood are not. Err, were not. I've only read a couple issues of Spawn and one issue of Youngblood. They might be good now for all I know.

I like Astro City a lot, but I like Fatale and Fell better.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:43 pm 
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Never read Fatale, and I haven't read an Image book in years, so I'll go with Astro City.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:46 pm 
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I've never heard of Fell, but the posted stuff looks great. Might have to check it out.


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 Post subject: Favorite comic series ever published by Image
PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:52 pm 
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Professor Plum wrote:
I've never heard of Fell, but the posted stuff looks great. Might have to check it out.


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Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:53 pm 
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Astro City's been with DC for about ten years. Doesn't count anymore.


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Probably Saga, though I'm way behind.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:00 pm 
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Savage Dragon.

The only time I remember Youngblood being good was when Alan Moore wrote it. (But I haven't read a ton of YB books either.)


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:02 pm 
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Steve wrote:
Astro City's been with DC for about ten years. Doesn't count anymore.

Eh. Wildstorm was the one who launched it when it was at Image Comics, so it benefited from Image's support structure when it was launched. Same for books like Wanted and Powers.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:11 pm 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Steve wrote:
Astro City's been with DC for about ten years. Doesn't count anymore.

Eh. Wildstorm was the one who launched it when it was at Image Comics, so it benefited from Image's support structure when it was launched. Same for books like Wanted and Powers.

I figure that if it was published by Image, it is fair game. As long as the issues you like were published there and not elsewhere.


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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Steve wrote:
Astro City's been with DC for about ten years. Doesn't count anymore.

Eh. Wildstorm was the one who launched it when it was at Image Comics, so it benefited from Image's support structure when it was launched. Same for books like Wanted and Powers.


Okay then. Planetary.

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Astro City would be close second. Saga is good but it's too young.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:04 pm 
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 Post subject: Favorite comic series ever published by Image
PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:45 pm 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Steve wrote:
Astro City's been with DC for about ten years. Doesn't count anymore.

Eh. Wildstorm was the one who launched it when it was at Image Comics, so it benefited from Image's support structure when it was launched. Same for books like Wanted and Powers.


The Image issues are also the good ones. Quality went down after the DC/Wildstorm deal.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:50 pm 
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Fell, followed closely by Saga. Early Image it would be The Maxx.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:52 pm 
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Hanzo the Razor wrote:
Savage Dragon.

The only time I remember Youngblood being good was when Alan Moore wrote it. (But I haven't read a ton of YB books either.)


I'm going out on a limb and say that you don't need to read many YB books to say the only time they were good was when Moore wrote them.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:01 pm 
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Fell, followed closely by Saga. Early Image it would be The Maxx.


I forgot Leave it to Chance was an Image book, too.

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Professor Plum wrote:
Fatale by Brubaker and Philips.

Nothing else comes close for me, with the caveat that I've never read Astro City and the rest of my Image experiences consists three issues of Spawn and the first issue of Youngblood from the quarter bin.


Well, go read Astro City.

It's OK. I'll wait here.

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Astro City. Right now? I really enjoyed the Five Ghosts trade.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:03 pm 
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It never occurred to me, but looking at a list of publications, Image has published a ton of comics that I've liked/loved.

Astro City
Bone (for a bit during its run)*
Casanova
Chew (I've only read the first collection, but I liked it)
Fatale
Fell
Five Ghosts
I Kill Giants
Jink*
Kabuki*
Leave it to Chance
The Maxx
Morning Glories
Popgun (I've got the first three collections, and while the quality varies, there's some really great stuff in them)
Powers*
Saga
Shaman's Tears
Stormwatch (Ellis' run)
Tellos

That's a pretty solid library.

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