Creator driven comics.

[Cducharme]

I have been reading a lot of creator driven or controlled comics lately. I'm finding they seem to be better than the bullshit committee approach that marvel and DC Jack off over.

Titles I've read (or in some cases re-read) recently.
The Boys
Crossed
Hellraiser dark watch
Preacher
Spawn
And an assload of one shots that never panned out.

And I've enjoyed all of them more than I would the average mainstream comic abortion of the month.

Any one else love these types of stories or are you all twats in tights fans?

[lugnut]

I haven't read comics since the mid-90s, but I recall just in the brief period of say, '92-95, watching the first big rise of the creator-driven comics and then watching most of them quickly fall apart by either getting way up their own ass or making decisions just as bad as anything the majors did. I mean fuck, McFarlane signed off on that shitty Spawn movie? Other stuff like The Savage Dragon or WildCATS sold out as quick as possible by being turned into watered-down Saturday morning cartoon adaptations. It seemed like by the time I pretty much gave up on comics, that whole scene that had promised to revolutionize the industry had more or less collapsed on itself.

So yeah, I don't think it's necessarily an arbiter of quality by any means.

[Cducharme]

I should have mentioned I believe it gives the property a better chance of quality not being utter shit

[R&ROVER]

I haven't been interested in Marvel or DC since the early 90s. My interest was waning even then as I thought the quality was slipping....especially the art.

[Steve]

I just bought, by reputation alone, the first trade collection of The Fade Out. Fatale was enough to convince me that Brubaker and Philips shit gold.