Brant: May 2008 Archives

My feelings for Image Comics are very similar to my feelings for Kevin Smith movies. I generally don't like them, but I do like what they represent - championing the independent spirit of artists everywhere. I remember being extraordinarily excited in 1992 about what Image Comics could do for the world. Turns out, not a whole hell of a lot. But still, it was a defining moment in my adolescence, and I look back on it fondly.

So big BIG props go out to the folks at Atomic Comics for organizing an event (publicity stunt?) that, for me, ranks right up there with a Beatles reunion. The founding members of Image Comics gathered together again, signing autographs for fans young and old during Free Comic Book Day. Remember that issue of Wizard where Todd McFarlane went on record as saying "Rob Liefeld is dead to me"? Holy smokes. But here we have photographic evidence of McFarlane and Liefeld not only sitting next to each other in the autograph line, but actually breaking bread at the same dinner table.

Full details are at Comic Book Resources. Thanks for the great coverage, CBR.