Post your favorite absurdities from the '90s
'90s thread
Oliver Richardson
Ian Clark
Jason Wilson
What's really funny about that comic is that Supreme is actually the guest star.
Only in an 90s Image comic will you have a guest appearance where they slaughter the main cast of the book.
Adrian Martin
Cable has to be the most 90s-looking comic character in existence.
John Morales
Stan Lee appears in a TV special with Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld where he gives them the name of a character, Overkill, and they then have to draw what this character looks like. Spends the whole time heckling them, then reminds them that he now owns the character.
McFarlane decides that this frankenstein of a character design is actually really good and wants to use it, but Stan Lee said he now owns Overkill! What to do? Change it to OVERT-KILL, the best 90's name in existence.
Jeremiah Ortiz
Nathaniel Carter
2099 was the best of 90s retardation, because it never went TOO over the top unless it was on purpose. They had enough self-awareness about the 90s-ness of it to keep it within reasonable levels most of the time and to only push it to absurdity when it was in a humorous way.
By contrast, the shit Image was publishing was 100% serious and clearly made by people who had no idea how retarded their own comics were and that nobody other than speculators was dumb enough to buy them.
Blake Cook
I still think Grifter's design is really cool even if it's dated now.
Ayden Rivera
Is he killing Bloodstorm, Bloodstrike, or Bloodblood?
the OTHER shitty superhero team liefeld creation.
Oliver Hernandez
THIS BLOOD'S FOR YOU
Caleb Perez
>Cable has to be the most 90s-looking comic character in existence.
Cable was the original character that defined that look, and inspired many imitators
>McFarlane decides that this frankenstein of a character design is actually really good and wants to use it, but Stan Lee said he now owns Overkill! What to do? Change it to OVERT-KILL, the best 90's name in existence.
IIRC, Marvel did already have a character named Overkill, which probably forced the name change.
Liam Anderson
>By contrast, the shit Image was publishing was 100% serious and clearly made by people who had no idea how retarded their own comics were and that nobody other than speculators was dumb enough to buy them.
Most of the people at Image were still in their 20s or early 30s, at a time when most of the audience were adolescent boys. They may have been more in tune with their audience than anyone before or since. Most of the books were by artists whose strengths were not in writing, but don't pretend only speculators were buying them.
Ayden Nelson
I think I know why Toriyama created the false Super Saiyan 2 in the Cell arc: a potshot at Liefeld
Ethan Butler
Well Bloodstrike is the comic about a government team that gets brought back from the dead every time they die. Which is a really fun idea that the comic never uses in a way to make it stand out from the other two government superhero teams Liefeld created
Camden King
Yeah when Image was at it's peak I wasn't reading comics yet, but the toys always stood out from everything else to me. I was getting Cyberforce and Spawn figures years before I knew what they were.
Brayden Stewart
Dominic King
>Which is a really fun idea that the comic never uses in a way to make it stand out from the other two government superhero teams Liefeld created
One was Youngblood, what was the other?
Gabriel Bell
>By contrast, the shit Image was publishing was 100% serious and clearly made by people who had no idea how retarded their own comics were and that nobody other than speculators was dumb enough to buy them.
Are you retarded, Zoomer? Image was all the hottest artists of the 90s under their own punk rock label surpassing Dark Horse as the dark horse of comics.
Don't talk about years you weren't alive for.
Matthew Sullivan
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I like to imagine Stan Lee drained a couple years of lifeforce from these two while murdering them with words.
John Roberts
People today can't understand how popular these guys were.
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Nathan Evans
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And what could have been:
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Nolan Howard
Youngblood looks the best out of all of those unironically
Angel Butler
Cooper Scott
There was nothing absurd about the '90s.
John Hernandez
>at a time when most of the audience were adolescent boys
You obviously are too young to remember the comics industry back then. I'm old enough to have worked in a LCS in the 90s. The audience then was primarily 20-somethings. And by "primarily" I mean "almost entirely". As opposed to now where it's mostly 30-somethings.
Chase Kelly
I actually can't tell if this post is ironic or if you're literally retarded.
David Sullivan
>70's frank castle would cringe reading that list.
Justin Barnes
>WHERE ARE THEY NOW
>Youngblood
>owned by pajeet
>Spawn
>same story told on repeat
>Savage Dragon
>parody of former self but consistent
>Wildcats
>parody of former self and mockery of independent comics in general
Cooper Kelly
I agree. X-Force was very EXTREME. Nothing more EXTREME than setting an anniversary issue at a hippie festival that's 99% characters hanging out.
Jacob Thompson
Brigade
Brody Flores
Landon Hill
Whose the guy with two swords?
Alan "Two-Swords" Jackson?
Asher Clark
Shatterstar
Nathaniel Smith
Based and Jakepilled
Landon Ward
Arguably /thread
Dominic Rivera
All of the 2099 issues could count, but this was fucking crazy all around
Ryan Thompson
Suicide Squad?
Leo Nelson
>free flowing yet skin tight mask
how?
Mason Reyes
Isn't he literally a literal kid kind of like Mr. Sinister was supposed to be.
Mr. Sinister himself and Goblin Queen are actually 80s characters not 90s though.
I was going to suggest Venom but he's slightly before the 90s.
Carnage is 90s though.
Robert Gonzalez
Form your ideal 90s Team! Heroes or Villains.
Must be characters created in the 90s or specific versions/incarnations of characters from the 90s.
Pic related my Villainous team, unfinished.
Alexander Mitchell
Most characters have kept their designs or as close as possible to them, so any character created in the '90s probably tops him.
Christopher Flores
Omega red was badass
Josiah Bennett
How come there weren't FF or Avengers 2099?
Lincoln Young
>7 characters
>0 feet
Parker Cook
RIP Cable
William Torres
Think of it more as a bandana.
Connor Walker
There was FF2099. And Avengers 2099 (the actual one from the 90s and not the new 2010s one)
Hunter Harris
Bought this comic the other day for a buck. Got the Shatterstar card. He was always cool.
Jordan Robinson
Liefeld Supreme: Henry Cavill
Moore Supreme: Christopher Reeve (pre-accident)
Chase Peterson
>Wildcats are part of DC
>Spawn is going to be in Mortal Kombat
>Savage Dragon has turned into a weird fetish comic to own the conservitards
Boy, shit got weird.
Angel Lopez
>Stan outwitting the Memeage boys
Based
Nicholas Ramirez
>this zoomer as fuck post
BEGONE PUNY MORTAL
Jeremiah Butler
Is that a belt fed revolver?
Isaac Sanchez
Keep your foot fetish to yourself.
Henry Brooks
Grant Morrison is right. 90s was shit and boomers terminally can't do art.
Charles Hernandez
I'm sorry, but the character you are looking for is actually Shatterstar. Cable is close but Shatterstar takes it just a step further.
Owen Morales
Michel Fiffe is right. 90s comics art has SOUL, unlike the tepid and formulaic modern art.
Ayden Williams
Micheal Turner started like classic 90s artists but when he got good at it he was the best of them all
Isaac Wood
and he would go all out sometimes on detailed rooms
Caleb Barnes
who dis?
it would be a cool concept for a magic user especially considering that the bags don't have to hold (lead) bullets necessarily
Joseph Roberts
Weren't Brigade working against the government, not for them?
The later 1990s became a whole new era where the big 2 moved away from the extreme style. People talking about 1990s comics rarely mean 1997-1999.
Kayden Murphy
90's cable parody
Owen Anderson
His thin waist anatomy actually got worse later when he did DC stuff, it was the only notably flaw with his work for me.
He was my favorite artist when I got into comics around 2007.
Love how he drew Cap.
Ian Sanchez
Early unfinished line up for my heroic team...
> Scarlet Witch (deodato outfit)
> Daredevil (armor)
> Ghost Rider (dk)
> Sara Pezzini & The Witchblade (top cow)
> Arena (malibu)
Nicholas Morgan
Evil Ernie is a fascinating relic of the 90's. His book wasn't really good per se but the idea of a horror villain being the protagonist with the antagonist being the final girl hero was a fairly interesting one.
Chaos! Comics in general was 90's as fuck.
Andrew Campbell
The edginess of the 90's lingered for way too long.
Jordan Reed
I love the retarded enthusiasm of 90s XTREME comics because the artists actually liked things and wanted to draw those things. So much of it is them going "dude I just saw anime for the first time and it was fucking awesome"
Give me artist driven comics over writer driven ones any day of the week, because writers only like themselves
Ayden Murphy
teen tony
Jordan Morales
X-treme tech.
Luis Allen
>Give me artist driven comics over writer driven ones any day of the week, because writers only like themselves
I'm really starting to believe that after reading some comics in the 00's and 10's.
Jace Phillips
>when he got good
When he died? Turner art was atrocious
David Roberts
> Scarlet Witch (deodato outfit)
The Avengers costumes were designed by Joe Madureira. Only Thor was designed by Deodato.
Jeremiah Williams
Many 90's comics had interesting concepts and premises.
I just can't stand the art.
James Gomez
The Pouch.
Cooper Garcia
Wasn't there some Shi'ar character - Deathbird or something? - who was part of X-Force for a while?
Nathaniel Morales
The animation looks better than anything being made today.
But that has more to do with how animation gets done nowadays.
Henry Clark
That's why a good company should have the writer and artist work together as a team.
Not have 'super star' writer paired with just some guy. Or the artist just drawing whatever the hell he wants with a writer just filling in the word balloons.
Dominic Perry
That's Kill-Pouch.
Dominic Howard
Great page
Luis Myers
>hey guys get this
>Hulk
>but with guns and one liners
Isaac White
xtreme 90s had energy, shit exploded off the page. It was retarded energy but that's still energy
Oliver Gray
it's like the art equivalent of retard strength
Zachary Adams
Your mom having sex
Jaxon Fisher
You forgot the bunny slippers.
Joseph Lopez
See, you say that, but I look at a page like the one you post, and I don't feel energy, I just feel insanity, a mess without heads or tails
Lincoln Peterson
>It was retarded energy but that's still energy
Computers made people lazy because they no longer needed to be innovative by pushing the boundaries of what they could do
Computer based comics IE webcomics reached the boundary of what they could do in the mid-2000s with infinite canvas and eventually COA with Homestuck
Lucas Walker
But... that's one of Skeletor's goons in the movie...
Nolan Butler
This shit
The run itself was a mess but all Foot Clan stuff was gold
Justin Stewart
A remastered version (with colors) is currently published by IDW with the promise that the final issues will see the light of day
Noah Kelly
>one of those guilty of the 2000s, arguably the worse age of comics, wants to shit talk the 90s
Brody King
why is the hulk shooting cigarettes?
Jack Watson
>Cable was the original character that defined that look, and inspired many imitators
Well someone had to DRAW first BLOOD!
Lincoln Nguyen
People had been talking a lot about how they kill.
Ian Long
Grifter’s mask defies all known laws of physics. Dude can basically pull it out of thin air.
Justin Thomas
Wyatt Harris
> “I just saw anime for the first time”
none of the trash posted in this thread looks like it took after anime
Colton Diaz
>Vibro-knux-flesh-shred-ding knuckle duster
hu ho
Owen Sullivan
>Plasma gas cannon
???
Jaxson Rodriguez
It shoots white hot farts
Henry Walker
Christopher Ortiz
Plasma is ionized gas in the first place so it's a redundancy
Jack Green
, , There’s also the crushing backround knowledge (particularly if you work at DC or Marvel) that comic books as an industry is dying and has been dying slowly for over twenty-five years, and that there’s nothing you or anyone else can do to actually stop cape books from becoming merely a method to extend legal control over valuable intellectual properties.
Imagine finally working with something you truly love doing, only the only way you can ever do it is to in effect become a human rubber stamp machine that is forced to turn out shit that you know is absolute trash because no amount of quality will ever financially matter to the parent company.
That has GOT to kill your artistic spirit pretty bad.
Nolan Turner
yeah i have a lot of respect for what image accomplished. even if a lot of it wasn't to my taste
Nicholas Walker
i love this guy too
Nathan Morales
TMNT originally was quite edgy though, what made this so much different?
William Cook
>but Stan Lee said he now owns Overkill!
Holy fuck was he a fucking cunt