Recent Image Comics

1. Any good Image comics series I should be checking out?
2. Heard about this one a while ago, actually worth reading?

Black Science and Deadly Class are both great works from Rick Remender
Saga from Brian K Vaugh
And Invincible from whoever.

I really like Snotgirl desu

Extremity by Darren Warren Johnson is good
I also like Sun Bakery by Corey Lewis

Spy Seal just started, it's very Tintin.

Deadly Class is my go to recommendation
I like Shutter but need to catch up on it
Snotgirl was pretty interesting from what I read of it.
I keep forgetting Extremity exists
Sunbakery is pretty rad but really I just want more Sharknife volumes.

I think Lewis said Sharknife will be showing up in Sunbakery

I saw some stuff on his instagram. Looks like he's getting it ready.

>Heard about this one a while ago, actually worth reading?

I read the first few issues and it's sort of fun

couldn't really get into it, but I dig the coming-of-age stuff with sci fi junk mixed in

I just got caught up on Paper Girls recently and I still don't know what the hell is going on.

Kill or be Killed by Brubaker has been pretty good.

Paper Girls is great, Saga is shit now.

same when I started

I dug the time travel and the goonies-esque interactions, but they lost me with the villains

I didn't get that far though

>saga sucks

can you spell it out for me, user?

I stopped reading when they used the tree rocket ship to escape and what's his name breaks his sword to do some magic

>I dug the time travel and the goonies-esque interactions, but they lost me with the villains

So is it kind of like Stranger Things?

Much like The Simpsons, there is no "jump the shark" point for Saga. Quality just started decreasing after the first compendium as pop-culture references increased (quoting Hillary Clinton) and forced issues from our world were forced more and more into their universe (ie. winged and horned aliens are "people of color") Also, Alana is drawn darker and darker each arc for no reason.

Paper Girls predates Stranger Things and is far more interesting, but like other anons say, it's still a mystery - god knows what it's really about other than time travel.

I second this.

Seven to Eternity for Lord of the Rings-esqe fantasy hero's journey
Descender for some damn good sci-fi
Snotgirl for cute millennial girl drama
Crosswinds just started but it seems alright so far for freaky Friday but with an assassin and a depressed suburban milf

>ie. winged and horned aliens are "people of color"

god why

>Snotgirl for cute millennial girl drama
That's a lie and you know it, hah.

Wasn't Snotgirl from the guy who did Scott Pilgrim?

So is this an okay series?

Yes, but it's completely different from Scott Pilgrim. Don't be fooled by the annoying lingo and seemingly vapid characters, O'Malley seems to be weaving something pretty interesting.

I'm only reading the Wicked + the Divine still

The only Image books I've loved are Stray Bullets and Prophet desu

Does Stray Bullets count as Image? They only published the finale, and omnibus.

They are publishing the miniseries that have spun out, so you have me there.

I guess? I really don't understand the publishing plan Lapham is using, why the fuck hasn't there been a Sunshine and Roses trade yet?

But it's a damn good book regardless

This. Stray Bullets is the only Image book that can claim the stakes to being a real classic.

Rat Queens, Monsters, Curse Words and Sex Criminal are among the best image books.

There are also those newfangled Street Angel comics.

And if you want something that's ended, read Five Weapons.

OH my God, fuck SwiftKey. I meant Monstress. And I love the fuck out of Paper Girls.

Just read Paper Girls Vol. 1, the story was alright until it just rushed from one thing to another without any pacing and now I don't know what's going on.

Rumble is pretty good user, the art is amazing and arcudi is writing it. It's been on hiatus but it seems like its going to start soon.

Headlopper is great to if your looking for something fun to read.

I'm glad there is a bunch of anons that don't understand papergirls,i thought I was the only one, I thought I might have missed something in the story and that's why it wasn't making sense. I just finished vol 2 and I'm wondering if I should get vol 3 when my lsc gets it or if I should just drop it.

thirding this. too bad its taking 3 years to complete.
How is it?

rock candy montain

Paklis is great.

Bitch Planet
Kill or be Killed
Near Death
Southern Bastards

Ongoing:
Manifest Destiny
Paklis
Spy Seal
Stray Bullets
The Fix

Pause:
Copperhead
Longer pause/Hiatus/Dead?:
Rock Candy Mountain
Casanova
Cry Havoc
Orc Stain

Deadly Class is amazing, one of my favourite comics.

I read the first trade of Snotgirl and wasn't sure if I liked it or hated it. The story was fairly interesting and unexpected, but the characters are all awful.

Empty Zone f you like cyberpunk. The writing is just okay/meh but it's an Image series so what do you expect. The art is fantastic and buying the two trade will enable the creator to do more.

> my hair is faggy and I must scream
no offense, the art is as you say

cyberpunk usually has faggy hair

>too bad its taking 3 years to complete
I thought it was progressing quite regularly. They did a pause between 4 and 5 I think but that's all.

>Sex Criminal are among the best image books.
Did Sex criminal put itself back up?
It was pretty aimless past the first arc. Especially after meeting the professor/former porn actress didn't lead anywhere.

too many of them go on huge ass delays
things like roc stain I understand because the art take time but something like southern bastards doesn't warrant 6 month delays for an issue of just people talking

People just like trash.

>because the art take time
Except Stokoe has been drawing plenty of stuff since. He just has no interest in doing more Orc Stain and that's that.

I have three words for you OP
I
HATE
FAIRYLAND

no he said orc stain doesn't make enough money to spend months on drawing it without an page rate
he works on the next trade between his other stuff, the next issue has been done for over a year

my pull list

>Black Monday Murders
>Seven to Eternity
>Monstress

fell behind on
>Autumnlands

checking out
>Shirtless Bear Fighter

I really like paper girls. I read them all this summer. Like other anons in this thread said, we don't really know what's going on, but neither do the main characters. I think that if everyone dissapeared, dinosaurs filled the skies, and we met future versions of ourselves, we wouldn't have everything spelled out for us at once.

I'm still reading it cause I'm determined to find out whats causing all this and why.

pretty. I will check it out.

Anything that's come out over the past couple years has started to stick to a more ridgid release schedule. They do enough for a trade and take 2-3 months off, then do enough for a trade again. I like this style of release

>the past couple years
it hasn't changed that much
the discipline
cry havoc
autumnlands
anything 8house
rumble
nowhere men for the second time
anything with warren ellis his name on it

The first issue of Redlands was interesting, but I hope it keeps up the quality. That's the problem with every Image book I start. The first arc or so is interesting and then the quality descends rapidly until cancelation.

Has Image always exclusively published genrefiction shit and things like I Kill Giants are the exception? I look at their catalogue and everything is either sci-fi, fantasy, crime, horror or a spaghetti of things. Is there any series currently that's not genre fiction that Image is putting out?

They ride what's popular at the time cause people come to them to publish. If a lot of people just want to write fantasy at the time they end up publishing more of it at the time. It's more a case of them being pulled in whatever direction that is popular rather than them making it popular

Royal City?

>Manhattan Projects to return never ever
It still hurts.

Oh I realize that but I still expected them to put out few actual indie books and not "indie" for capeshit audience and I still have to find indie books. Image is the biggest non big 2 publisher so I wish that they would put out some of the books usually published at Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics, so that those books and authors have potential to find bigger audience.

Yeah that counts I guess and you know it's only being published there because it has Lemire's name on it.

They probably could but the audience is different. Fans of that kind of stuff already know to go to D&Q and Fanta to get those books. Whereas Image's audience right now is people who want genre books. And I feel most of those guys probably wouldn't want to be published by Image anyway, they don't usually leave that corner of comics.

Whilst the plot meanders a bit, somewhere between Game Of Thrones and Good Omens, if you like worldbuilding East of West is pretty great.

Last indi book I got from them was Material by Ales Kot. Only lasted 4 issues though, kek. I liked it but it was hipster as fuck

>it's a Hackman's going "muh setup" episode
>it's a every character in Hackman's book an armchair philosopher episode
>it's a charts episode
>it's a Hackman book doesn't come regularly episode
I really don't know why I bothered with it since it won't be finished for another year and a half.

>They probably could but the audience is different.
Yeah but goal is definitely to diversify and a good amount of the Image books find the audience through great word of mouth and sell in trades.
>And I feel most of those guys probably wouldn't want to be published by Image anyway, they don't usually leave that corner of comics.
I don't know if that's true since always new guys are coming in the scene and looking to be published.
Lot is too much of an unironic psued for me, I could respect his attempt but he's just as big of a pretentious douche outside the books.