Image Comics Witchblade
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Dec/080
Dec/080
Image Comics Witchblade
Why don't Image Comics characters have staying power?
How come Image Comics never seem to be able to sustain the popularity of any of their characters?
When they first came out, characters like Spawn, Savage Dragon, Witchblade, The Darkness, WildC.A.T.S, Young Blood, Gen13, Darkchild, Pitt... (to name a few)... were all immediately successful and popular. But after one to five years, they all faded away into either nothingness or obscurity? What is it exactly that Image does wrong? How come no characters have the staying power of Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Hulk and the likes?
Because the majority of Image characters are just rip-offs of ones that their creator's worked on at other companies. That's the biggie.
There are others. Many of the Image founders had trouble getting their books into a decent production schedule. Of the ones you mentioned, only McFarlane was able to get Spawn out on time regularly because he did most of his own inking. There's also the lack of good villains in the Image books as well. Again, Spawn lasted longer than the others because McFarlane established interesting and fun characters for Spawn to battle. Can you name a single villain from Witchblade, The Darkness or Youngblood? No? Neither can I.
Comic books live and die by their popular villains. FF has Dr Doom. Spiderman has Gobby. Batman has a list as long as my arm. X-men have Magneto.
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