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I was an edgy teen in the 90s, and oof the comics supposedly for “edgy teens” were not for me. Aside from indie vampire comics, the 90s were by far my most conservative comics buying decade: Batman throughout, Spidey until the Clone Saga, Wolverine and GI Joe throughout, then Midnight Sons but only at first. Then prestige- writer DC in the back half of the decade.
Image crashed and burned for me utterly, I only made it through the first 20 issues or so of Spawn.
 
I never found Shadowhawk all that interesting compared to some of the other Image characters, but I have been using the rooftop diorama that came with the original McFarlane figure for decades.
 
I make no apologies for being into Image Comics when they first hit. Being a teenage comics fan in the early 90s was a lot of fun. I never got past 2 issues of Shadowhawk, however. Was it because it was always late or I just didn't care? Yes.
 
For reference, I was 12-22 in the 90s, so 14 when Image launched and having read McFarlane’s “Torment” Spidey story in real-time, and loving the art (if not so much the story).
I will say that I collected a lot of (at that time) cool action figures from books I would never be interested in reading.
 
AceofKnaves said:
I was an edgy teen in the 90s, and oof the comics supposedly for “edgy teens” were not for me. Aside from indie vampire comics, the 90s were by far my most conservative comics buying decade: Batman throughout, Spidey until the Clone Saga, Wolverine and GI Joe throughout, then Midnight Sons but only at first. Then prestige- writer DC in the back half of the decade.
Image crashed and burned for me utterly, I only made it through the first 20 issues or so of Spawn.
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I was pretty similar, but while I never even read Spawn at the time, I really miss seeing that stuff everywhere. There were suddenly comics stores everywhere in my tiny hometown, even though none lasted past that initial boom. There's a lot of nostalgia for me in the look and feel of a 90's comic shop, even if I was drawn to the more writer-friendly titles of DC and Vertigo at the time. Today, picking up a terribly cheesy 90's Image issue is like a time machine to my high school years.
 
RexMason said:
There's a lot of nostalgia for me in the look and feel of a 90's comic shop, even if I was drawn to the more writer-friendly titles of DC and Vertigo at the time. Today, picking up a terribly cheesy 90's Image issue is like a time machine to my high school years.
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I can relate to all of this.
 
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For what it’s worth, one of the reasons I loved - and still love - the G2 era of Transformers comics was how it reflected the early 1990s era of comics so well.
 
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