History Creator / ImageComics

* DarkerAndEdgier: The '90s were especially notable in that they embodied UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks - "dark, edgy" and often completely immature! Nowadays they publish books in a wide variety of tones, from properly mature storytelling like ''Comicbook/{{Saga}}'' or ''Comicbook/{{Criminal}}'', to superhero stories BloodierAndGorier than the Big Two would allow on their mainstream lines (including popular revivals of those early series), to books for kids and young adults.

* ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}''

** ''ComicBook/RadiantRed''

* ''ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue'' (first 25 issues only, the rest of the series was published by Devil's Due independently.)
** ''ComicBook/GIJoeVsTheTransformers'' (first miniseries only, the remaining three were published by Devil's Due independently.)

* ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' (Vol. 3)

* ''ComicBook/MicronautsImage'' (main series and ''Micronauts: Karza'' miniseries through Devil's Due Publishing, which also released a short-lived continuation independently of Image)

* ''ComocBook/TheSagaOfRex''

* ''ComocBook/{{TheSagaOfRex}}''

* ''WhateverHappenedToBaronVonShock''

* ''ComicBook/RadiantBlack''

Image Comics eventually lost two founders: Rob Liefeld was fired[[note]]Though he [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he quit. The middle ground is the speculation that he quit ''just before'' he could get fired.[[/note]], and Jim Lee sold his Creator/{{Wildstorm}} Studios to Creator/DCComics after leaving Image[[note]]There was even a CrisisCrossover, ''Shattered Image'', devoted to writing Wildstorm's titles out of the Image universe, and vice versa.[[/note]]. Over the years, Image started GrowingTheBeard: they got a central editor to help control the schedule, and the quality of the art and maturity of the storylines started looking up somewhat. They also hired some other writers and with this they got some more diversity, with titles like Creator/JeffSmith's ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', Creator/KurtBusiek's ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' and Creator/RobertKirkman's ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' and ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead''. Whereas the original titles had at least paid lip service to being in some kind of Image SharedUniverse, these more recent titles have tended to exist as entirely independent works. Kirkman has recently been bumped up to the equivalent of founder status, forming his own studio, Skybound Entertainment. ''Spawn'' and ''Savage Dragon'' are also still published, and are better-regarded than in their heyday, whilst Image is giving a chance to many writers whose ideas would never be published by the "Big Two". Rob Liefeld even managed to make up with his ex-partners at Image, thanks to Kirkman's intervention, and managed to successfully relaunch a few of his old Extreme Studios properties, though he is still no longer a partner in the publisher. Their main competitor nowadays is Creator/DarkHorseComics rather than Marvel and DC, as both companies tend to release similar off-the-cuff, independent works, though Image actually does remarkably well in the trade paperback market, regularly beating out the Big Two. The company has managed to distance itself from its "grim and gritty" roots, and is generally highly regarded by comic readers, particularly those seeking non-superhero, non-licensed work.

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