>>108081140>>108081190When did image related become the norm?
I'm thinking it was between the Image Exodus* and the popularity of Burton's Batman and Rami's Spider-Man when the stockholders started to see comics as IP farms to be managed rather than an end unto themselves.
*Yeah, I know that was Marble's Top Talent, but if you've ever seen a documentary about that time you'd know that they literally marched out of the Marble offices ( having just quit in mass ) and into the DC offices just down the road where the DC Editorial thought they'd just woken up on X-Mas fucking morning before they dropped the bomb that they weren't going to work for them EITHER!