Why did Dark Horse's Legend imprint not really do anywhere? With the talent assembled, should it have not been the next Image?
>>147116015more money in niche books and manga.
>>147116015Too old and they didn't have that rock star image like Todd and co. did. I mean look at Mignola, he looks like your friend's dad when you were kids.Also I think Byrne said money issues arose pretty quickly and tore them apart.
>>147116015The 90s was just too a brutal time for the comic book industry. Probably the worst time in the history of the medium to be starting up new imprints and new companies, which, of course, is what everyone was doing at the time. And hey, I imagine that's why this imprint fell apart.If you really want a sob story though, go look into what happened to Jim Shooter and his two or three post-Marvel attempts to get back into the comic book business during the 90s.
>>147116015Some of those books did pretty well. The bigger issue was that Image published monthly comics. Legend did not.>>147116076Miller and Byrne 100% were as big as any of the Image guys. Money issues were a bigger problem.>>147116025When Miller first went to Dark Horse, but before Legend was started, his output was the biggest fucking thing Dark Horse had. Sales were never a problem.
>>147116015beyond the overhead cost others have pointed out there's also the fact that while Sin City, Hellboy and Next Men are inarguably each individually far better than anything Image ever spawned, pun intended, they simply weren't as marketable, flashy or accessible to a wider audience.
>>147116015>>147116076I'm guessing he's talking about Art Adams but not 100% sure.>Legend was inspired by Image, when Image was an imprint under Malibu. "What a great idea!" we thought. "Let's do the same -- only do it right." By "right", we meant no soliciting of books that never happened, no late books, no gimmicks, nothing, in fact, but comic books. And we had some of the finest talents then working in the business ready to produce those comic books.>Then reality set in. First we discovered some of the guys -- one in particular -- could not produce even the small amount of work promised. Then what might be politely deemed "other considerations" began to creep in ("Let's do a Legend card set! And let's include people who have only just joined but don't have any work out yet -- that won't really be the same as promoting projects that don't exist. . . "). Frank was the first to declare he would no longer use the Legend totem om his books. I followed his lead. And then I was thoroughly castigated online, by people who rather dramatically missed the point, when I did not use the emblem on WONDER WOMAN!
>>147116649>Miller and Byrne 100% were as big as any of the Image guys. Money issues were a bigger problem.It is but also at the same time Byrne's star was waning some because he got irritated that his books were getting outsold by Image books, and went back to DC to show he could sell as well as they couldMiller and Mignola were still doing their thing at Dark Horse even after the Legend line ended.Allred's Madman got published under Legend in 1995 and his stuff stayed at Dark Horse till like the early 00s or thereabouts.Art Adams managed only a few Monkeyman and O'Brien comicsPeople also seemed confused about whether the books were in the same universe or whatever, even though Hellboy and Danger Unlimited (and Monkeyman and O'Brien) shared a universe
>>147117052This reminds me of Kevin Eastman's doomed Tundra and how he was just giving money to people who never made anything.
>>147117236hellboy's first appearance was in Next Men so it was such a weird, poorly planned universe
>>147117808And it may not really be him, he was one of several characters like Concrete and some in-universe fictional characters that got brought to life by some character with reality-altering powers."real" Hellboy was introduced in the Hellboy miniseries
>>147116015>these are 10/10s in America
>>147116015fat schulby white dudes are the be all and end all that y'all think they are.don't misunderstand, i'm not saying they should all be black lesbian trannies.pretty much most creators, of whatever sex, tastes, looks, are talentless unimaginative hacks nowadays.
>>147118297Those are 3/10s in America, 5/10s in Europe.
>>147119089geeIwonderwhocouldbebehindthispost.jpg
Anyone remember their Maverick imprint? That was actually their most prolific imprint ever (and a relatively good one) and yet almost no one remembers it.
>>147116015Is this what you've got to look forward to in your mid-30s?
>>147119089Shut the fuck up you babbling faggot.
>>147119983>>147119256
>>147120295Fuck off you social parasite.
>>147119089genuine question, what point were you trying to make?
>>147116015The comics were popular but Legend itself was not really a brand built to last. Image was Image, people knew the company, logo and backstory almost as much as the comics. For Legend it was "Check it out, new creator-owned comics from Frank Miller and John Byrne, only at Dark Horse! Legend is the name of the imprint if anyone cares"
RIP Dark Horse
>>147119444no
>>147120295>This sexy actor with a shaved head is you, incel!Great comeback.
>>147117236>>147117808wait it had a whole universe? and Hellboy was a part of it?ive never heard about any of these Legend shit before in my life.
>>147126244I don't think Legend was a "universe".
>>147116015Why did they do it, bros?
>>147126244No, only some books shared a universe. Others were their own thing.Next Men was its own universeSin City was its own universeConcrete was its own universeDanger Unlimited, Babe, Monkeyman and O'Brien, and Hellboy share a universe
Dark Horse in general isn't run very well
Dark Horse was the best comics publisher of the 90s.
>>147117808Bendis made his first appearance in the next men letter pages
>>147116015I miss young Frank Miller.
>>147135045Same.
>>147132959Was it though?
