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The House that Jim Lee & Brandon Choi built

It’s 1991, and the six biggest artists in comics, plus Jim Valentino, decided to walk away from Marvel, and their record breaking sales, to go out on their own and created Image Comics. Each had their own fiefdom, (minus Whilce Portacio who was dealing with the death of his sister), and began creating their own comic universes.

First there was WildCATS, then came StormWatch, (which would be the inspiration for the name of their Universe), then Deathblow, and so on, and so on. In a few short years, Jim, Brandon, and their industry friends to build a lush, and complex universe all on its own. Ripe with sci-fi, intrigue, conspiracies aplenty, bleeding edge tech, alien species, Amazonian immortal goddess fighting machines. It sold really well. It was probably the most popular Image line at the time.

Flash forward to 1997, and the comics industry is in the proverbial can. Small presses were going bankrupt, Marvel was going belly up because their CEO tried to go too big, too fast, and it all came crashing down. Jim seeing the writing on the wall, decided to go to Marvel and DC the chance to buy his universe, which DC jumped on.

This thread is dedicated to fans of this lush universe to enjoy, talk and reminisce about the house that Jim and Brian built!