25 years ago a bunch of Marvel artists left the Big Two and decided to form their company, with blackjack and hookers. This company would eventually become the closest to a third competitor for DC and Marvel (lol) and the best known creator-owned comic book company out there.
This week and maybe the next one I'll be posting some of Image's first series and maybe some of their recent hits as well.
So strap in, 'cause you're in for a trip down memory lane.
Next up is what happens when you give free reign to one of the X-Men visionarios, Marc Silvestri's Cyberforce
Spawn: Youngblood: WildC.A.T.s: Savage Dragon:
Julian Price
I don't think this ever had an animated series, so...
Ryder Parker
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Ian Sullivan
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Jayden Ross
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Easton Ward
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Dylan Smith
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Thomas Wood
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Jason Scott
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Samuel Cooper
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William Johnson
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Samuel Perry
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Anthony Howard
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Charles Harris
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Jose Johnson
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Robert Hughes
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Jacob Nguyen
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Brandon Brooks
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Evan Ramirez
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David Wright
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Jackson Davis
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Luke Roberts
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Carter Lopez
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Caleb Wright
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Ethan Hughes
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Gabriel Rodriguez
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Tyler Nguyen
Yo, anybody reading?
Zachary Ward
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Jason Davis
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Nolan Miller
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Jeremiah Sanders
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Bentley Cooper
I think of ALL the Image Teams, Cyberforce is the least subtle knock off of the X-Men.
One or two of the characters are OCs (Velocity, maybe Ripclaw, possibly Ballistic), but everyone else is a Reskinned X-Character.
Henry Nelson
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Grayson Adams
Yeah, it's pretty bad. I can't believe this is what Silvestri wanted to do on his own, reminds me of Byrne's Next Men.
Christian Cruz
Also, Ripclaw is totally not-Wolverine, c'mon.
Hunter Green
I am here for Best Girl, and pointing out obvious X-Reskins.
Angel Morgan
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Colton Foster
The thing is, I waifufag Velocity so hard I really don't much care. Which is lame as hell I know, but I don't give a damn. Most of what I've read is from her PoV anyway.
Camden Bell
Cool, cool.
Austin Bennett
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Benjamin Rogers
Yeah but he has a completely different look and attitude than Wolverine. He's cool headed and a bit stereo-typically mystical. Which is kind of fucked, but it's enough to keep him from being an obvious reskin like say Cyblade.
Jose Lee
We've all been there.
Jordan Davis
Cyblade is the worst haha, I'm pretty sure Silvestri waifu'd Psylocke so bad he wanted one of his own.
Zachary Powell
I was reading when this came out. Ripclaw is easily the necessary Wolverine analog that needed to be included in every team book since he was huge at the time. We're talking Cougar (Youngblood), Warblade (WildCATS), etc.
Nolan Nelson
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Oliver Garcia
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Blake Foster
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Brandon Howard
Yeah you need one small rippy guy, and you needed on big bruiser guy.
I'll be straight though, I get more of an Avengers vibe from Youngblood.
Colton Hughes
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Aiden Morgan
They were actually based on a rejected Teen Titans pitch by Liefeld, according to him.
Jackson Sanders
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Jaxson Williams
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Aaron Hall
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Brody Ortiz
So, is this supposed to be in the same Universe as Savage Dragon?
Levi Ortiz
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Logan Reed
Back in the early days of Image the founders sorta tried to push for a shared Image universe, but it never went anywhere.
Hunter Anderson
I get the feeling Silvestri had a bit too much fun writing Splitzkrieg.
How'd a conjoined twin have two different accents anyway?
Anthony Lopez
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Isaac Lopez
Yeah, kind of sad, but the teams have too similar premises (and team lineups!) to really bounce off eachother crossover wise.
Jackson Cox
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Owen Carter
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James Wood
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Matthew Phillips
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Gabriel Lopez
>Westchester
Swear to god, just once I'd like a Superhero comic to take place in St. Louis, Milwaukee or somewhere that's not jizzguzzling New fucking York.
David Cox
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William Hall
B-but user muh X-Men
Noah Rogers
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Jason Morales
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Nicholas Reed
This is not just an X-Men Gripe (even if it taking in the part of New york as the X-Men is fucking dicks), NYC is overplayed. Superheroes were invented in a great big, wide fucking continent with dozens of large scale cities on it, but it always comes back to the city of people who've had their manners surgically removed.
Nolan Collins
To be fair, it's mostly a Marvel meme.
Kayden Turner
Velocity realizes she's just been kidnapped from her kidnappers.
Aaron Russell
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Ryder Turner
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Easton Williams
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Sebastian Butler
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Kevin Myers
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Josiah Cooper
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Luke Harris
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Connor Turner
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Luke Johnson
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Caleb Morales
Credit where it's due, I dont think I've seen a superteam Dustup (..which could be an okay name for an Early Image character) feature two belligerents of it apologizing to each other for the mix up.
Camden Jenkins
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Isaac Peterson
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Nolan Bell
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Robert Gomez
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Lincoln Russell
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Hunter Perry
Mother May I, with the superpower to make you think she's your mother.
So is her weakness Orphans and kids who hated their mum?
