What is the state of Image comics right now?

They have been doing pretty good with the new items the pick up and print. Most recent to mind is KSBD. Heard the first print literally ran out before they realized it was gone.

Same great taste for a great price. Image comics.

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Pretty good. They've got a fuckload of comics out, so there's something for everyone. There are however some comics which are either on hiatus or are being late constantly, but I guess that's up to the creators and not Image itself.

P.S. Y'all better check out Stray Bullets

they now have to have 3 issues done before image will solicit it

but that won't stop the people who do an ongoing for 5 issues, stop for a year, announce a new image book, do 3 more issues of the old book, stop for six months, finally get 5 or 6 issues of the second book out, and then announce a new image book, and...

looking at you hickman

I agree with my fellow Unknown users! Do go out and buy an Image (TM) comic today, great tastes, great prices!

>Starstruck ripoff.

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What is this about?

>What is the state of Image comics right now?

Paper Girls
Jupiter's Legacy 2
Trees (when not delayed)
Rumble
The Wicked + the Divine
Snotgirl
East of West
Saga
Nowhere Men
Seven to Eternity

A pretty decent amount of stuff I'm reading from them. On average I'm buying twice as much from Image than DC/Marvel or any of the others.

Too many books. Too much delays.

Those suck.

A girl is about to lose her virginity with her boyfriend, then a demon from another dimension puts a key into her forehead that unlocks a gate that will trigger a war of conquest across all remaining parallel realities.

Forgetting the best Image book out right now, Manifest Destiny.

Sounds stupid.

Are all the demons WW2 jews?

>Those suck.
>Seven to Eternity
Not like you even read it, fag.

>Those suck.

I like Paper Girls. It's a pretty fun scifi comic.

Jupiter's Circle is a better Justice League comic book than the actual JL comic, and Legacy is a decent enough extension of that.

Trees is a bit ponderous but I'm patient. I like Ellis' other stuff like James Bond and Injection more though.

Rumble is a great action comic because I stopped read BPRD Hell on Earth a while ago.

Wicked + the Divine had an awkward start but it's really bearing fruit from all the sowing that was done in the early issues.

Snotgirl is so far a farcical slice-of-life story taken off the rails with murder and paranoia.

East of West is damn good alternate-universe scifi.

Saga is Saga.

Nowhere Men is a big mess that's got way too many characters and fumbled the alternate history take, but there's a modern take on the Fantastic Four hidden within it, which gives it a lot of charm.

I picked up the first issue of Seven to Eternity but haven't read it yet. Looks fun enough.

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Also, Manhattan Projects will NEVER be finished

>Sounds stupid.

Its selling point is the manic, frantic atmosphere of the story, because the main character is just a young woman from earth who has no idea what's going on. The story has a sense of humor and goes grandiose as a stylistic choice.

it's a webcomic original, you can read it for free.

Isn't Red One a different format completely?

Like two issues a year and then collecting that in an oversized HC

>haven't read it yet.
You should get on that.

>no one cares about Island

I dropped it after the arc with the little blue bird people.

I'm just not emotionally prepared to see what horrors the Sasquatch will unleash on Louis and Clark.

>but that won't stop the people who do an ongoing for 5 issues, stop for a year, announce a new image book, do 3 more issues of the old book, stop for six months, finally get 5 or 6 issues of the second book out, and then announce a new image book,

Seems like you are talking about Trees and Injection.

.... Nigga what?

The Selling point is it's vedic myth/ The Elder scrolls lore.

Shit is balls to the wall constantly. The main character was the weakest point until recently when she basically said "Fuck that being a normal girl shit, I'm god now"

Extrapolate.

Yeah, something like that.

I'm still a little confused as to why the v.1 HC is SO damn expensive for just 2 issues though. I know it's got bonus shit, but still. Seems too steep.

I was only reading it for Simon Roy's comic.

There's not enough in the anthology format to appeal to me.

I kind of want Brandon Graham to just draw a transsexual porn comic at this point because it's something he clearly has on his mind.

Remender sucks in general.

Yeah, that was fucked up.
I kept going after that, but I sorta lost the emotional investment. It was just too much for me to continue caring about the protagonists.

Who cares Ellis is a hack anyway.

>Shit is balls to the wall constantly.

That's what I said. We are agreeing.

I only like Pop Gun War. I will trade wait.

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yep, just about. however, i'll never understand why every single comics reader isn't buying Stray Bullets. that series is beyond fantastic. i also think Brandon Graham is great but he got carried away with Island and 8House. basically biting off more than he could chew. i want another series by him like King City or Multiple Warheads (though i'd prefer a King City sequel or at least stories in that world), pronto.

I dislike KSBD's art/

>nobody mentioning Invisible Republic or Lazarus

Just me, then?

>Who cares Ellis is a hack anyway.

His work on James Bond has been pretty inspired and clever.

His bad farts are better than half the stuff other are writing at their best.

Was Velvet /good/?

Is anyone reading Kill or be Killed?

>His bad farts are better than half the stuff other are writing at their best.
It ain't fair.

That's what Remender does with his fans lel.

i learned my lesson with Hickman the hard way with his SHIELD series, which i really dug. i also refuse to read/buy any Warren Ellis until he concludes the story. then again, it's been diminishing returns from both of them, anyways.

>James Bond
No thank you

>Stray Bullets
If I liked his AoA, will I dig it?

Great. It's my go to for my science fiction and space fix.

>sounds stupid
>stupid
it's a fucking comic book. they ALL sound stupid. man is a rodent suit fights criminals because he has mommy and daddy issues. alien with super powers fights crime because...? family goes to space and gets superpowers because radiation and ... wait for it ... fights crime! the last man on earth only wants to get back with his girl friend and has a pet monkey. the king of dreams is depressed and looking for a way to kill himself. mina harker and allen quartermain fight Martians! you have to suspend your stupidity threshold a bit as a comics fan is what i'm saying.

>i want another series by him like King City or Multiple Warheads (though i'd prefer a King City sequel or at least stories in that world), pronto.

King City's ownership rights are all fucked up. That it got a physical collection at all was apparently a small miracle.

Graham seems to have his mind set on being a writer/editor even if it works against his strengths. He wants his friends to have a little of the money and acclaim he got.

8house without Marian Churchland's art didn't appeal to me much either and Island's novelty went away quick.

Lazarus is good but written and paced like a book.

i have no idea what AoA is. Stray Bullets is crime fiction but it stretches the definition a bit. it's tense, hilarious, violent, horrific at the same time. and every issue tells a story. it's how Lapham defines it.while there are long arcs, each issue or chapter can reel you in. however, i suggest starting at the beginning with it as the narrative does build up.

I've got no idea what this is.

>Was Velvet /good/?

I was initially burned out on Brubaker after what a shitshow vol.6 of Captain America was, but then I actually read it and yeah it' pretty darn good.

Turns out if you take a character like Black Widow and have her old enough to be past her prime she suddenly becomes a lot more interesting. That idea combined with Ms. Moneypenny from James Bond and a few references to actual women who worked in espionage in WW2 gives it a healthy mythology to draw from.

It's a spy thriller potboiler, but done without pretentiousness. It's strong, inspired work from Brubaker.

>No thank you

Well then try Blackcross for superheroes by way of twin peaks.

Look at his old forgotten shit like Aetheric Mechanics or Frankenstein's Womb.

Calm your autism, son.

>shitshow vol.6 of Captain America
D'leet this!. He only wrote 14 issues of Winter Soldier which were great.
Hell, I honestly don't remember any of his vol.6 even though I know I read it and own it.

>It's strong, inspired work from Brubaker.
Cool. Might get the trades then.
I finally got around to finishing Fatale after having the issues laying around for...forever, and loved it.
AoA = Age of Apocalypse. How the fuck do you not know this?

i remember reading those a while back thinking these were great concepts for stories but not really stories in themselves. man, Ellis is really hit or miss with me. AM really let me down with that horrendous ending.

I liked Invisible Republic but I've dropped it to trade waiting.

Fuck Lazarus though. Fuck Rucka books in general. Motherfucker gets outpaced by a sloth

Haven't read any of Lapham's cape stuff so I wouldn't know, but the stuff I did read from him I either liked(Silverfish, Young Liars) or loved(Murder Me Dead, Stray Bullets).

>Hell, I honestly don't remember any of his vol.6 even though I know I read it and own it.

Hydra builds an imaginary dream world or something. Anyone reading it could tell Brubaker was completely out of ideas.

because i don't read X-Men books? wait, that's a lie, i read Morrison's run, which I found okay but not enough to have me read any more. same thing with the few issues i read of Peter David's X-Factor run. i also generally stay away from superhero comics and when i did read them i stayed away from all that 90's nonsense. well, not Valiant. i dug some of that companies 90's comics.

wew, calm the autism buddy.
what he meant was it sounded stupid in contrast to other hero stories that give characters a reason to push forward and motivates them to become ultimately better, of which there is none in the description you chalked up. and before you project even harder no, I have read the comic and find it incredibly bland and unengaging headfirst, there's a lot of 'this is going on here and now whether you give a shit or not' instances and we're expected to side up with the MC as soon as we meet her because everything is as convoluted to the reader as it is to her, and it ends up falling flat on its face because there simply is no driving force to keep me reading besides overdesigned backgrounds and busy character designs that resemble something out of a fucking AAA shooter these days which I'm apparently expected to care about.

Cause he didn't want to do it. It was obvious he just wanted to continue to fap over Bucky, and Marvel relaunched CA to try to get movie bucks

Huh. Yeah, not ringing any bells, and I remember practically everything I read.
I just know Peggy died in the first few issues, but it was boring as fuck.
Remender's run was zany and I liked Dimension Z, but it sorta got lame after Nuke showed up.

I liked his Steve in Uncanny Avengers more, even though they are the "same" they felt different.

I do remember being irritated about the #SYNERGY though.

Yeah, Ellis has trouble with characters some times. He defaults to jaded snarky smokers when he doesn't know what to do.

As his comic work has gotten more sparse, his prose work has gotten better though.

Frankenstein's Womb is a loveletter to Mary Shelly. I suspect it was from leftover research Ellis did for the Frankenstein castle issue of Planetary.

>his prose work has gotten better
has it? i started reading both Gun Machine and his first novel and could not continue past the first few chapters. i'm picky af when it comes to novels. actually, comics, too.

>projecting
i think you may have to look that up in a dictionary, mate. however, i do admit i sperged out in my response to that imbecilic post. i also admit i have never read the comic and cannot comment on its quality. my response was to the notion that one comic with fantastic elements is stupid while others with similar concepts is not. any kind of umbrella fantasy can be said to be stupid from superheroes to hobbits to giants to aliens. capisce?

holy fuck. no way in hell there's anyone dumber than you in this very board today.

>le dictionary hull point
do you have trouble grasping the concept of semantics?

>I also admit i have never read the comic and cannot comment on its quality.
so yours is a post consisting on elaborating on absolutely fucking nothing, got it. if you want to be smug and throw random buzzwords at me for using words that somehow hurt you then by all means go ahead, just refrain from acting high and mighty by using big scare words in a poor attempt at backing up a contender.

you ad hominem spouting fuckstain.

those things you mentioned are /nowhere/ near or alike the way KSBD introduces it's universe and characters which is the point he's making. it's a story with no buildup to the latter story arcs as it drops the reader straight into the fray.

In 2018, image comics will print a 25-page series which will change the course of the indie comics atmosphere

I come not from the future, but the predictive past

I may be a prophet, but I didn't pass English class

25-issue series*

But speaking of prophets, we already had a 25-issue series named Prophet which changed everything forever.

Image is shit. All cool kids read aftershock now.

Thank you messiah. You existance and your prophesies will be recorded and save. when the miracle is realized, you will not be forgotten.

Monkey's Paw

Brandon Graham gets Incase, Dmitrys, and Sparrow to do a Futanari-themed sex comic that outsells every other comic and wins an Eisner in every category.

California, soon to be Oregon.

>bait

Wait, afterwhatisthatcuzihavenevrheardofit?

What the hell is aftershock?

Does Aftershock even have any good books?

>ad hominem
there you go again, citing something you either do not fully comprehend or are using it so liberally it defies the term's definition. where in either post did i use an ad hominem attack? both posts, apart from my advice to look up the definition of projecting, took a position against the unsound point the previous poster took on comics and stupidity. also, what buzzwords am i using? from what i can grasp from your response is you're taking offense at my acting high and mighty and smug? again, how so? i criticized a poster when he insisted a comic is stupid. yeah, most comics are and i still love them! seems you want to pick a fight where there's none to be had, mate.

also, big scare words? what? lol.

That guy was undoubtedly baiting, but if you don't know what aftershock is, you're a fucking casual.

A comic publisher that popped up back in April 2015 or something. They got their first books out like a year ago and haven't heard a whisper on any of them.

Better than the Other Two writing-wise. Most of the writers works are stronger when they have their own characters to play with. I'm burnt out on cape comics for at least a century so they provide good alternatives.
The Goddamned
Southern Bastards
Stray Bullets
Kill or be killed/Brubaker's stuff
The Fix
Morning Glories (I liked the beginning. Nick Spencer's cape shit feels diluted compared.)
Brian K. Vaughan new stuff is still readable.

You can mock, but the fact that Image has a locked $10 for the first volume of any trade is solid.

Ahhh, i see. Give it two more years. If still unknown, it will forever remain underground.

yeah, i feel the same way. i'm over superhero stuff. been over it for a few years now actually.
i think Morning Glories started out great but as the narrative unfolded it really did feel like another LOST situation where the writer keeps on for the sake of keeping on. the series should have concluded with 24 or so issues, i'd say. maybe it's me. my interest in that story faded as it continued to add fantastical elements.

anyways, Stray Bullets is fucking marvelous. i still need to check out The Fix, though.

also, has Ales Kot quit doing work for Image? i found his Zero compelling before it went all Interzone. haven't read Wolf or that other one he was working on. are they any good?

This is how all publishers work if they last, or they aren't state/university funded small presses.

A bunch of hollywood pitches

God that gay thing in island was terrible.

>Seven to Eternity
Reading it now and god damn this is great. And wew the art is fucking amazing to. I don't wven care tgat he left marvel anymore

Alters but that's just my fetish talking.

The Fix might be the funniest book I've ever read.
It's so good I can overlook Nick Spencer's Twitter tantrums.

It's awesome.
Can't wait to see what's in store.
>engaging with creators outside the letters page

Is it Oh sigh dis or Oz eh dis

Speak english man

The main character's last name is Osidis.
How to pronounce?

Although it should probably be Oz id is on the second option.

The art was much better than the okay story

Oh sid iss but is suck at pronouncing names.

Why does Cred Forums not like sci fi? Faster Than Light is great. A nice space adventure about firat contact with many species. Somewhat like a star trek show but not utopian

It's not by a big name/s or a meme artist like Graham, so Cred Forums doesn't care.

Because the art is drawn over poser models.

>a meme artist like Graham

I do.

All I'm reading is walking dead, snotgirl & kill or be killed.

I finally got a chance to pick up a few weeks of comics so I'm a little late but the last issue was great
>black hole well, and time dialation consequences
>some sort of alien that contains an entire big bang

Loving it

I should also add, the added cell phone content it pretty cool sometimes. The latest had a Nasa video talking about a near by black hole being studied

>never heard of based Kaluta
You uncultured swine. No wonder you read Image.

Anybody else read Birthright?

No

>basically biting off more than he could chew
About a month or two ago he talked about hiring either a manager or and editor, I forget which, basically someone to keep on him about getting work done and not letting himself be pulled in so many directions at once

I believe he just finished his second art book so I guess now he's back to Multiple Warheads

How come?