>champion of artists rights>wrote and drew some of the most iconic comics moments of all time>created based characters like Spawn>pioneer in making action figures more than just cheap toysIs he the greatest of all time?
>>152317147Thank you Todd, for making the industry a lot worse and for giving hacks like Jim Lee more power than he should have gotten,
>>152317271>more power than he should have gotten,Says who?
>>152317302Me, because DC Comics sucks every since he joined,
>>152317393Leagues better than Marvel
>>152317393DC acquiring Wildstorm was good for them both, things went downhill when Lee was promoted from artist to publisher in 2010.
>>152317147He's definitely better than Gaiman
>>152317147
Reminder that Todd was going to retire after spider-man to raise his daughter. Man has a healthy family life and is his own boss. In this industry, and as a man, he won.
Perfect storm of timing I think.I'm the biggest Venom fan but he's not my favorite.
>>152317703It's funny how this was made before the allegations against Neil were made.
Todd made the GOAT Soulcalibur character
It's a shame his company's modern toys aren't great. But apparently they still sell so I don't expect that to change.
>>152318123He was very cool. Specially his masked form.Wish they kept him in the series.
>>152317147A lot of people say he's an asshole, "hard to work with" and so on, but that's just a guy who wants it done the right way. If comics had a few more guys that actually gave a shit maybe they wouldn't be so dead.
He never should have brought back Family Guy
>>152317271>t. Gets all comic history from YouTube griftersWithout Todd the comic industry would literally just be Marvel and DC. And DC under Jim Lee hasn’t been this successful since before Marvel was a thing>but I don’t like itOkay that’s fine but it doesn’t change the fact DC is vastly more successful under Lee than it ever was under Levitz or Didio
>>152317147I honestly prefer Kneel Gayman.
>>152318294Give him a break he only does the voices now.
>>152318295>Without Todd the comic industry would literally just be Marvel and DCSo it would be effectively identical outside of an Amazon cartoon or two?
>>152318295Hey, Dark Horse comes in at #4.
>>152319570Still?
>>152318295it's not that clean cut. Image did edge out a bunch of indie publishers out of the marketplace.
>>152320144You're blaming Image for the death of Malibu, Defiant, Valiant etc?
>>152317147>>champion of artists rightsreally? the billionaire who stole Marvelman from Mick Anglo?
>>152320518He didn't steal him, he bought Eclipse assets and thought he owned Miracleman as a result. No one knew Mick didn't sell his rights in the 50s
>>152320553It's called due diligence anon, you don't just assume good faith when someone is selling you something, that's how you end up buying the brooklyn bridge from a guy who smells like he sucks dick for nickles at the bus station
>>152317147It was a lousy movement. At the time, many indie publishers were outselling Marvel and DC and had Hollywood deals. Image tried to cash in on this wave but ended up producing trendy garbage. Did they improve later on? Yes. But it was nothing like people make it out to be.
>>152317147No he's bad because.... uh... he bought a baseball... and he uh... he kinda gives me a heckin chud feel... even though he never actually did anything like that
>>152321201What a retarded fucking cope.
>>152317147Todd you aren't supposed to put your name in the subject field
>>152320990The rights were a total disorganized mess and Anglo owning them was something that wasn't even discovered until far more research was done. And it was more a case of him owning it by default.
>>152321401Yeah I'm not sure Mick even knew he retained ownership until it was discovered in 2009 and that's only because Gaimen insisted on clear proof of Todds ownership when Todd offered to trade the full rights to Marvelman to Gaimen for full rights to Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro. Had Neil just taken the trade without due diligence as Todd offered it we may never have known.
>>152321386It's true that Image only survived the 90s, but they were cashing in on the thriving indie market that began with the huge success of TMNT, which outsold the entire industry.
>>152317147Meh
>>152317147>created based charactersThe 90s are over
>>152317147wetodd mcfartlame lol
>>152318146>Wish they kept him in the series.SoulCal fans hated his fucking guts so they never brought him back.
>>152323029>The 90s are overAnd people wonder why the comics industry is in such dire straits and consistently getting their ass kicked by manga.
>>152320193>ValiantWell...
>>152323844Spawn is actually pretty good nowadays. The Scorched is a cool Spawn team book too, first team book Spawn has had. And Rat City is a future cyberpunk version of Spawn. The mainline book is pretty good as well, despite the 5 billion retcons that have happened throughout its history.
>>152320193Even smaller publishers, their big issue with Image is that it basically left to a turf war that killed the remnants of the 80's small time indie scene that was able to survive on sub-3,000 sales. That never recovered, which basically kept anything else from being able to grow the way the industry could in the 80s.
>>152325011Fuckin kek whats that from
>>152317496It really wasn’t, it was Jim Lee getting bailed for being a poor businessman.>>152325034Kill Image (1993)
>>152317147That's the thing about life. The Todd ALWAYS wins
>>152317147>>pioneer in making action figures more than just cheap toysNowadays his figures are bottom of the barrel. Temu knock offs have better quality than most of his shit.
>>152318123his soulcalibur 2 design are really good.
>>152317147I like Spawn's design but i really wished his comics were good,it's kinda sad how the best thing related to him is still the animated series
>>152317147I still like the third jersey he designed for the Edmonton Oilers. I hate it when sports teams over-rely on nostalgia and never create anything new.
