Pro tip: Stop calling every indie book an 'Image clone' without reading it

I was at my local shop in Austin last Saturday and this guy picked up a gritty crime comic and goes 'oh another Image clone.' The book was set in 1970s Detroit with zero superhero or sci-fi elements. How can you lump something like that in with Saga or The Walking Dead just because it's not Marvel or DC?

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morgan_butler27d agoMost Upvoted

Ask him what he thinks makes something an Image clone anyway?

amyh211mo ago

Wait till this guy discovers that indie publishers existed before Image did. I swear some people think comics started in 1992 and ended with Walking Dead. Not every crime book or slice of life comic has to have a guy in a cape and a logo on the cover to count as legit. That 70s Detroit book sounds sick actually, hope he didn't scare you off from grabbing it. Maybe next time he'll confuse a police procedural for an X-Men crossover too.

jennifer_mitchell531mo ago

Actually the funny thing about that 70s Detroit book is it reminds me of how a lot of those early indie publishers like Kitchen Sink or Last Gasp were putting out stuff that was totally wild but nobody talks about them anymore. My buddy collects old underground comix and some of those crime stories from the 70s are gritty as hell way more real than any superhero book trying to be dark. The guy at the shop probably never cracked open a copy of something like "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" or even an old "Love and Rockets" run. Bet he thinks "A Contract with God" is some kinda new thing too.

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