Image or Valiant: which was worse?

haha yeah, furthermore he murdered every field character that he didn't create aside from Flint and Swift

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I am taking the '90s' and the past tense in the question to mean it's a historical comparison over the period when they were in competition, in which case Valiant easily - like ear nash I'm now reading a lot more Image than I would have imagined 20 years ago.

Request For Schooling: all the mainstream comic bk publishers were engaged in the same greedy and short-sighted publishing practices - but at the time it always seemed that they were chasing the same group of shitty popular artist/writers, and Image seemed to be all of them at once, together with an intensifying of all those practices - or was 11-year-old me just too black-and-white about it? I know I basically swore off Marvel over the rest of the decade as well.

oh i just meant, marvel and dc were also flooding the market with gimmick covers and polybagged 'collector's item' - and companies like Dark Horse were coming up with their own line of work-for-hire superhero comics and multipart crossovers.

No hate for Malibu?? I went all-in on Prime but boy what a dorky bunch of comics.

have a smidgen of affection for malibu's line cos they gave work to old school dudes like steve gerber and steve englehart, but yeah, terrible guff from terrible ppl, mainly

Malibu's Ultraverse stuff had some reasonable titles! Some really horrible ones, too. I never really read pre-Ultraverse Malibu, but I remember they were somewhat also into the gimmicks of the time. There was some book that had a giant hole punched through the middle because... some character got shot

it was Jab, a humour anthology on Adhesive edited by Too Much Coffee Man's Shannon Wheeler, that was shot with real actual guns. #3 iirc? "Dear God... it's - it's not mint!"

There was one variant that wasn't shot, so didn't have a hole, and one that was shot with a shotgun, so couldn't properly be read.

Here we go:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/protectors5.jpg

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/03/04/comic-book-legends-revealed-303/

sheesh, figures

Wow, great to get all that info and the scans. Good link.

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http://www.4thletter.net/gavok/wwf/cover1.jpg

http://4thletter.net/2007/06/stone-cold-steve-ditko-presents-wwf-battlemania-part-one/

amazin'

Wow, great to get all that info and the scans. Good link.

it was only because I couldn't get a direct image url on phone-GIS! glad to hear it wasn't a loss

So Savage Dragon has gotten weird

How weird

what happened, did it get super political or something

The Dragon is no longer the star of his own book

my... my god

lol

"The Dragon is no longer the star of his own book"

I'd figure with Savage Dragon #200 about ten issues away, it's probably not a permanent move. The status quo of the comic seems to change every so often.