From: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Subject: Re: Why do people HATE Image?
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:08:47 GMT

In article <9211162234.AA15893@PCS.CNU.EDU>, rglass@PCS.CNU.EDU (Randall Glass) writes:
|>   What is the real reason many people hate Image comics?

I'm not sure if people "hate" Image. Many might just be disappointed with 
what they've done so far. I know I am. I would like to have a comic company
release their books ON TIME!!! The only one that's been doing that is Spawn
(this gives it a big plus for me, although with McFarlane doing it, it was
already carrying a plus).

|>   Is it because your favorite artist left your favorite book?

Not quite, I was glad to see some of them go. Either I was glad because I
didn't like their work, or I was glad because this is the oppurtunity of a
lifetime for them.

|>  or that you know your favorite artist will never draw any
|>  Marvel character ever again? (as in mcfarlanes case).

Who cares!

|>   OR do you hate image for not doing anything that couldn't be
|>  done in a marvel comic?

I guess this is where more disappointment comes in; if you go off to make a
comic company, do something innovative, something new. Give us a reason to
take it seriously. Instead of, "this is another superhero group ala X-Men; I've
seen it before".

|>   ORRRR do you hate image for 'stealing' all the good talent 
|>  from the big 2 (3?4?5?) for their own greedy purposes?

"All the good talent?"... I'm not sure about that. But "for their own greedy
purposes", yes I have a problem with this. It's one thing to pick Marvel clean
of a lot of talent (notice I didn't say, "all the good talent"), but they
gloat about it saying that they made the killing blow to Marvel... Well, they
didn't; Marvel's still going strong. If anything, they made a serious wound
to DC and some of the independents out there because the store owners will 
leave a lot of space for Marvel and for Image because they sell. This leaves
some of the good independent stuff with no shelf space so the store owner 
doesn't order them anymore.

|>  What are your reasons for hating Image?

As I said, I don't hate Image, as a matter of fact if they did their releases
on a regular basis, I'd probably like them more. I'm just disappointed with
what they've put out so far.

|>  As for me, i don't hate them... this is a company founded by artists,
|>  so i started getting the books for the art (there's nothing else to
|>  go on at first anyway!). so far the stories are pretty mundane.

This is another reason Image leaves a bad taste in people's mouths... They
say they don't need writers, and they don't need editors. Well, they're wrong.
Many of the "stories" are mundane because they are picture books. McFarlane
knows about the need of writers now or he wouldn't have invited all of those
writers to do issues of Spawn.

|>  i like Savage Dragon, Spawn (its ok). I get for the art: Wildcats,
|>  Cyberforce.  I'm interested in Wetworks, Pitt, and Darker Image.

I like Spawn, Savage Dragon and Cyberforce looks OK. Wild C.A.T.S needs a better
story (the art is fine). I'd like to see P.I.T.T and Wetworks looks so-so.

					Tony