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.
For our final week, we'll be looking at modern Image, an age of superstar writers, popular artists, and... movie/TV pitches?
First up is the love story that took the world by storm, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga
Xavier Perry
Starting early today because I have the time.
Caleb Cruz
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Jacob Clark
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Nolan Anderson
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Oliver Robinson
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Jack Thomas
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Ryder Green
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Sebastian Rodriguez
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Chase Green
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Levi Jenkins
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Jaxon Nguyen
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Noah Rodriguez
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Caleb Harris
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Xavier Foster
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Josiah Foster
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Chase Brooks
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Nathan Garcia
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Easton Nelson
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Gabriel Rodriguez
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Connor Flores
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Isaiah Martin
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Lincoln Jackson
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Colton Scott
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Blake Powell
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Joseph Hughes
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Owen Clark
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Colton Taylor
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Brody Moore
Ah Saga I both love and hate you so much....I mostly like the series but man I hate how every cluttered the cast got and BKV issues of trying to be shocking makes me exhausted. Still I check it out so it must be doing something right.
Dominic Bennett
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Julian Reyes
I feel the exact same way. It's funny because I don't even like the universe of Saga, I think it's very poorly thought out, yet I still read this shit every time it comes out. Guess it really is a comic book reader's favorite soap opera.
Evan Martin
ah yiss, space magic cold war. dont know why this isn't more popular
Evan Thompson
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Ethan Brooks
You serious? It's Image's second best selling book, right behind TWD.
Andrew Bailey
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Colton Perry
but i don't know another person who reads it. and isnt TWD like actually 500times more popular.
Mason Brooks
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Ian Sanders
Eh, maybe it's just unpopular at your LCS, just look at the letters page every month, TONS of people read it. >and isnt TWD like actually 500times more popular. Sure, but that's because it's got a TV show. Imagine if Saga had one, how much it would sell.
Mason Rogers
ah reminds me that The Will is textbook sociopath, cares more about animals than people. and is apparently a FUCKING MONSTER. cant wait for whatever he does to get that title
Nolan Harris
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Gavin Murphy
In my comic shop it is loved but no one really seem to actually discuss it just that it is amazing. Or Lying Cat memes. I've also got looks when I didn't' call it the best book....at the time I said More Than MeetsI still think that. it handed all the LGBTwhaterever themes a whole lot better than saga and actually built up a universe with consistent concepts...based on toy robots I really wish BKV would just not introduce characters to kill them, it doesn't make it memorable if they die before we ever can care about them.
Parker Nguyen
Maybe Hazel just hates fat people.
Jose Harris
Fiona seems to go out of her way to have him covered in the blood of his enemies early on, cant wait till he gets back to that.
Jordan Lewis
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Logan Gutierrez
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Ian Martinez
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Anthony Lopez
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Jonathan Sanders
lol reminds me of the list of new names they gave him. my fave was The Wont
Tyler Bell
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Isaiah Cox
OK, that made me smirk.
John Russell
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Joseph Jones
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Owen Hill
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Kayden Morris
i dont believe the universe saga is in is particularly inconsistent. and BKV wrote for LOST and you can really tell how he spends the characters!
Mason Young
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Andrew Peterson
Esperanto translations, in case anyone cares >High Soldier Marko! >Stop! I'm warning you, don't touch me >You are pitiful! It literally means "worthy of compassion" which is probably not the tone he was going for. (I'm pretty sure BKV just used Google translate for all of this and it shows)
Isaiah Peterson
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Brandon Price
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Austin Bennett
Thanks, it's appreciated.
Josiah Powell
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Ayden Wright
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Adam Hill
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Benjamin Parker
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Ian Bell
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Asher Murphy
OP, are you storytiming all 40whatever issues or are you just doing an Image sampler all this week? I haven't caught any of your other threads so just curious
Josiah Foster
>Wither (I'd have gone with Velku to make it a command though)
Logan Thompson
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Camden Rogers
Only the first arc, as always.
Liam Nguyen
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Christian Green
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Jason Morgan
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Jeremiah Murphy
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Alexander Campbell
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Charles Watson
Has BKV or Staples said how long they intend for this book to run? It's starting to lose its charm, but I'd put up with the random dicks and trivial character shock deaths if I knew there was an actual endgame we're headed to
Jaxon Russell
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Isaiah Jackson
All I know it's that BKV said it's longer than any series he has written before, so at least 60+ issues I think.
Nathan Howard
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Ayden King
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James Jackson
Man what happened to this comic? Is it still going on? I feel like no one talks about it anymore
Wyatt Russell
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Cameron Powell
Is he just trying to avoid writing an ending because he knows he sucks at them?
Camden Walker
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Zachary Barnes
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Nathaniel Smith
it got lost in its own bloat and insistence on shock value. Everyone became unlikeable, and the story doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Or at least that's how it was when I dropped it, about a year's worth of issues ago.
Josiah Murphy
That's sort of what it feels like right now. I mean the story's kind of naturally where it feels it should be at, but you can still tell he's dragging his feet a bit.
Easton Wilson
Probably
Jaxson Jackson
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Juan Cox
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Lincoln Rodriguez
> the story doesn't seem to go anywhere There have been some neato moments, but this is the main thing. When Saga started, it was Marko and Alana with their hybrid kid on the run from both sides of the war. 42 issues later, it's Marko and Alana with their hybrid kid on the run from both sides of the war.
Isaac Parker
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Hunter Moore
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Nathan Long
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Adrian Gray
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Landon Sullivan
Fiona Staples art is so goddamn nice to look at. That and Hazel's narration really are the saving graces to this tumblr bait of a book.