My take on the mid-1990's

From what I remember, comics kinda tapered off in quality during the mid-to-later 1990s. 1990 and 1991 kicked off a monumental time for the 'upstarts' in the industry. we all know the usual suspects: McFarlane, Lee, Leifeld, Larson, etc... The artists reigned supreme! Single issues were selling in the millions of copies!

Image comics kicked off with bang, in the wake of all those talented aritsts leaving Marvel. It was great times for about...oh...2. maybe 3 years? 1991-1993 brought us WILDCats, Spawn, and the such. But then, those danged multi-variant covers!!

(never really liked them). Ok, yes I did. But so did everyone else! lol

The word for years was FOIL. Platinum Foil. Blue Foil. Red Foil. FOIL refraction covers. FOIL reFLECTIVE covers. Variants and foils!! And 'chromiums'. And Etched covers! But it was only cool covers. The quality of story, plot, sequencing, pacing INSIDE the books....all these elements were seriously lacking! It was ALL ABOUT THE COVERS.

And the art. The stories were rather whack. But the art was kick-ass! (if you could forgive such nuances like PROPORTION and PERSPECTIVE  lol )

And that is where I got lost. I'm guessing 1996 (right around the whole ONSLAUGHT brohaha), is where I tapered off of comics. All the revamps and relaunches, and deaths and rebirths.....it got really stupid, really fast.

For me, killing Superman (and bringing him back) and then killing all the Marvel Heroes... that was it for comics for awhile.

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