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Dec 7, 05 - 9:05 AM |
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I cannot really say how much of a role determination played in Kris' case. I do see where you are coming from adn would agree with it as a generality.
However Kris SIlver fell into indie comic history more through a series of fortunate events. At the time of teh black & white comics boom of 1986, literally ANYONE, regardless of talent,d rive or vision could and DID publish comic books. I am going to assume that, since you are citing Image comics as an example of poorly written independents, you are unafamiliar with the deluge of B&W books that followed TMNT(Eastman & Laird).
A few good companies, putting out high quality stuff emerged such as Dark Horse & Eclipse comics. A few decent companies also emerged putting out a mix of high quality and abyssmal garbage(Malibu, Aircel, Blackthorne etc.). And then there were the rest...
companies putting out titles that ranged from "so bad it is good" to "so terrible it could NEVER be good!"(too numerous to list here).
Amongst these last were Silverwolf Comics. While Kris stayed away from such fads as the 'Anthropomorphic Mutated Martial Arts Animals' craze, sticking to his "vision" of ultraviolent superheroes, his books were every bit as poorly written and WORSE than such crap as "Pre-Teen Dirty Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos"(Blackthorne) and the yet to come Image books like Shadowhawk and Spawn.
In fact, there are no other writers who have ever worked in comics who quite reach Kris' level of incompetence. Youngblood and Spawn(even the very early issues) as bad as they were(are?) looked like Hugo Awared winning material in comparison.
You would have to read some of Silver's books to fully grok the totality of what I am saying.
And, as I mentioned before, Kris was both lucky adn unlucky early on in terms of the artists he managed to nab. ROn Lim got his start there doing the first issues of Eradicators and Grips(which was later tossed out adn redrawn by Vigil, thankfully). Brandon McKinney(Elfquest) did Legion X-1 #'s 1 & 2. In 1986 he hired a young unknown by the name of Rob Liefeld(I know...BLECHHH!)to take over "Stech"( a spin off from Eradicators which only lasted one issue) but that guy took off to work for Marvel before he did any work at SW Comics.
And most importantly there was Tim Vigil who did 5 issues of Grips(four *officially* published), 2 issues of Dragon Quest, 2 issues of Nightmaster(one published), a few ads for Nightmaster and Grips(for which he was never paid) a cover or two, 5 Grips portfolios and a few 6 page stories for the "Fantastic Fables" anthology(one of which was limited to less than 200 copies distributed) and managed to carry the company.
Without Vigil, Grips would not have seen a 3rd issue(maybe not a 2nd! Most of SW's titles were lucky to see an issue #2) and SW would have vanished, as so many others without causing a stir.
Image was terrible yes but even their writers(or artists who try to write) are not anywhere NEAR the same league of poor scribery as Kris Silver. |
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