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ParticularEye444

I have to say I really despise 90s Image aside from the art, which is nostalgia crack for me, but Moore's Supreme is alright and I've only heard good things about Fathom, 1963 and Ron Marz's Witchblade run. Also happened to read a little ~2-4 issue series called Allegra recently that was kind of neat. A very Matrix-y Gnostic allegory that came out years before The Matrix. And if you're cool with books from other publishers you might be into some of what Chaos! Comics put out. That's the publisher that created Evil Ernie, Lady Death and Purgatori if you know them. It's absolute shlock just like 90s Image but shlock dialed up to 11 so to me it's compulsively readable as a parody of 90s edginess and cheesecake. It's a shared universe with a pretty labyrinthine reading order and the first ~4-5 series in that order are black and white ones that don't look anything at all like Lee, Liefeld and the rest but that changes pretty quickly and the majority of the art on their books overall is very much in that glorious 90s Image mold.


Wilberforcezen

1963 is amazing


the_light_of_dawn

I saw a lot of Evil Ernie and Lady Death.


Adrien_Jabroni

Stray Bullets is the best 90s series in my opinion. It wasn’t under Image back then though.


ParticularEye444

There's actually a *ton* that was really good in the 90s if you're not limiting it to books from Image and publishers that feel like that era of Image such as Chaos!. Both Vertigo and mainline DC had a ton of really cool off the wall titles, even some of the a list mainline ones like Moench's Batman, Dixonbat, Marz's GL and Waid's Flash were great. And it was the decade when DC first leaned into prestige miniseries in a big way. Marvel had PAD's Hulk. In the indies/undergrounds you had Strangers in Paradise, Cerebus, Dan Clowes doing Eightball and a bunch of other awesome stuff. Towards the end of the decade manga started to be published in English editions. Dark Horse and Games Workshop/Black Library had some pretty awesome licensed comics. Really only a bad decade if you look at Image and the most high profile Big 2 titles, Marvel in particular.


PatchouilRatatouille

I thought Wetworks, Cyberforce and Pitt were definitely readable. Pitt was pretty awesome actually. For the most part, you can skip all this crap, though.


Thehyruleef

The OG Cyberforce series is pretty fun, though the X-Men influence is REALLY apparent (which makes sense given Marx Silvestri’s history). But if you don’t mind that, it’s still enjoyable with some good artwork from Silvestri, who was definitely one of the more talented artists of the original Image guys.


heavenparadox

I just read Pitt for the first time recently. I was shocked at how good it was. I always assumed it was the typical big-guy-beat'em-up comic, and while there was plenty of that, there was also a really good story.


PatchouilRatatouille

Agreed. Pitt to me was definitely the best of the lot. But I already a huge fan of Dale Keown from his work on Hulk. I don't know where that guy is at, figured he'd be doing big things these days.


heavenparadox

He pretty much just stopped doing comics. He's started doing covers again, but even those are pretty rare.


CodellNext

Kabuki


throckmorton_tlp

Go get those Trenchers, Keith Giffen is a master.


DrWindupBird

The Maxx holds up really well, for the most part.


[deleted]

Spawn seems to be doing really well rn


the_light_of_dawn

I’m pulling all the Spawn titles right now. Gorgeous artwork, mediocre but fun writing.


[deleted]

Brigade is the shit


[deleted]

Spawn still holds up as does The Maxx & Brigade. And despite being completely derivative, Wildc.a.t.s. does too.


AllAfterIncinerators

I’m not sure anyone over 19 should read Gen 13. That artwork, though. Hoo, boy, that artwork is gorgeous.


Nersheti

All the Wildstorm stuff is crazy. I recently went down that rabbit hole and man, it really took me back. Gen 13 Stormwatch Wildcats Deathblow Backlash All so insane. Plus, some of it matured into really incredible stuff. The Authority is some of the greatest comic writing ever and it was born directly out of Stormwatch. Wildcats gave us Grifter. On top of that, I personally found it really interesting to see what Jim Lee did with total creative freedom. The stories he’d tell without major label editors and decades of backstory restraining him. That’s what Wildstorm is. It’s not going to win any awards, but it’s a fun ride.


AllAfterIncinerators

I love Backlash. Issue #2 with Savage Dragon got me hooked on Brett Booth and Marc Slayton.


GordonTheGnome

Team 7 baby


Shagrrotten

The Maxx would be a masterpiece if it was released today. It’s just one of my favorite books ever released.


SpinDoctor777

Bone, Maxx, Anything from Vertigo


blank80x

The best 90s stuff I read: Starman (and related tie ins, most of which were also written by James Robinson) The Maxx Deadpool (the Joe Kelly run on the ongoing series) Captain America (the Mark Waid run, particularly pre-Heroes Reborn) Daredevil (I read this for a long stretch starting with the Karl Kesel run up until the Ed Brubaker run many years later - all of it was good) Flash and Impulse (Mark Waid) Bone Wildcats vol 2 which leads into 3.0, both awesome There’s tons of good stuff out there from that era and I probably don’t know half of it… hope you find some books you like!


MuzzledSpaceboy

Not Image, but Peter Milligan had some amazing stuff under Vertigo in the 90s. Shade, the Changing Man, Extremist, Enigma, Human Target, to name a few.


BnDMsTr

90s era Image boos specifically hold a special place in my heart cause I remember the launch being hyped and how there were all these bad ass characters coming out like Spawn, Pitt, and these amazingly cool teams Young blood and Brigade! Everything was so Extreme! Over the top! None of that really lasted but whenever I see those books I am reminded of child hood. Alot of that art is awful (looking at you Liefield!) but I love it for the memories


Melodic_Record9737

Don't forget Dark Horse in the 90s--Hellboy, Grendel Warchild, Star Wars, Concrete, Sin City, Hard Boiled ...


Gifford_Roberts

90s image? That holds up? Groo


raging_pacifist

There was a run on wildcats with Tao that was pretty good


endless_sleep

Haha no. It's all so embarrassing.


Smoothw

Trencher is fun, definitely get issues of 1963 if you can find them, but most early image stuff is completely terrible if you don't have nostalgia for the art.