Rob Liefeld even managed to make up with his ex-partners at Image, thanks to Kirkman's intervention, and managed to successfully relaunch a few of his old Extreme Studios properties, though he is still no longer a partner in the publisher. Spawn and Savage Dragon are also still published, and are better-regarded than in their heyday, whilst Image is giving a chance to many writers whose ideas would never be published by the "Big Two". Kirkman has recently been bumped up to the equivalent of founder status, forming his own studio, Skybound Entertainment. Whereas the original titles had at least paid lip service to being in some kind of Image Shared Universe, these more recent titles have tended to exist as entirely independent works. They also hired some other writers and with this they got some more diversity, with titles like Jeff Smith's Bone, Kurt Busiek's Astro City and Robert Kirkman's Invincible and The Walking Dead. Over the years, Image started Growing the Beard: they got a central editor to help control the schedule, and the quality of the art and maturity of the storylines started looking up somewhat. ![]() note There was even a Crisis Crossover, Shattered Image, devoted to writing Wildstorm's titles out of the Image universe, and vice versa. ![]() The middle ground is the speculation that he quit just before he could get fired., and Jim Lee sold his WildStorm Studios to DC Comics after leaving Image. Image Comics eventually lost two founders: Rob Liefeld was fired note Though he insists that he quit. At first success was so intense that series were added, either ex-novo (like Sam Keith's The Maxx, Dale Keown's Pitt, Keith Giffen's Trencher, and Nick Manabat's Cybernary) or being "filiated" from the original ones like Freak Force, Vanguard, and the Deadly Duo (from Savage Dragon), Gen13, Stormwatch, Deathblow and Team 7 (from Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.s universe), and Glory, Prophet, and Supreme (from Youngblood), but soon after things began to fall apart.
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