Celebrating Artist Bo Hampton

Celebrating artist Bo Hampton on his birthday (June 29, 1954) with the Book of Shadows, a two issue mini-series from Image from April and May, 2006, featuring a frightened girl named Annie, who has to work with the goddess of blood and death to prevent an army of shape-shifting devils, dragons and other mythological creatures from plunging the Earth back into the dark ages....

Celebrating Artist Joe Jusko

Celebrating artist Joe Jusko on his birthday (September 1, 1959) with a few of his covers for the Image series featuring Lady Pendragon.

Lady Pendragon is a multigenerational story, featuring Lady Guinevere from Camelot, her modern day descendant Jennifer Drake who revives magic in the modern world, and Princess Iseult, who leads mankind to Mars in future.

Lady Pendragon #1 Joe Jusko variant and Dynamic Forces Foil cover (November, 1998)

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Lady Pendragon #4 (August, 1999)

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Lady Pendragon #1 and #8 (April, 1999 and February, 2000)

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Celebrating Artist Michael T. Gilbert

Celebrating artist Michael T. Gilbert on his birthday (May 7, 1951) by bringing out his friends.

Michael was the creator of Doc Stearn...Mr. Monster, and over the years, he met a few other characters, like Airboy and his cast of characters in Airboy and Mr. Monster #1 (August, 1987 for Eclipse), as well as a giant dinosaur (here, named Gorzilla) as well as Atomic Boy in Mr. Monster vs Gorzilla (July, 1998 for Image).

Image's Big Bang Comics

When Image Comics hit the scene 30 years ago, it created a revolution in comics, with highly stylized art by big names and flamboyant characters...but, where would that leave the old style of comics from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages?

Well, enter...Big Bang Comics!

For 35 issues (and a few specials) from May, 1996 to January, 2001, Big Bang Comics brought back the old school comics, with characters that looked familiar (Ultiman, the Knight Watchman, Kid Gallahad, Thunder Girl, the Blitz, the Whiz Kids and more), giving people new stories in older styles, while including modern Image heroes like Savage Dragon and Mighty Man!

the 1940s

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the 1950s

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the 1970s

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the 1980s

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Specials

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Big Bang Comics was a fun little exercise in "new nostalgia", giving readers old style comics with new characters...

...and survives now, as its own company, Big Bang Comics, with print on demand comics, which you can find here (highly recommended!).

Now, for more of what Image was usually known for, take a look at these columns by my fellow Super Blog Team-Up contributors:

Between The Pages Blog

Killer Walking Dead Cakes

Asterisk 51

Better Late Than Never: Spawn #1

Comics, Comics, Blog: 

Image Comics: Remembering my early days

Superhero Satellite Podcast Episode 3:

Image Comics Road To Revolution

In My Not So Humble Opinion:

Astro City: That Was Then…

Jesse Starcher - Source Material -

Darker Image!!! - 

Chris is on Infinite Earths

Cable Eats a Bagel: the de-imagification of Nathan Dayspring Askani’Son Summers

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