And porn.
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, in the D&D stuff I just gave away there were a bunch of early game modules with Willingham art. Comico had a decent hit rate -- The Jam, Elementals, Grendel.
― rack of lamb of god (WilliamC), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
I like that initial run of Mage a lot, that was the only Comico thing I've held onto
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
First was a pretty solid company but then DC pretty much picked their talent away wholesale and they didn't have a second run of series or the ability to do back list sales to keep the line going like they do now. Nexus, American Flagg! and GrimJack were some of my favorite comics as a teenager.
Thing is that many of those titles sold crazy numbers compared to now. I seem to recall finding some tidbit in a mid-run version of Mr. Monster talking about how sales for like #4 or #3 was over 30000. That would be a sick number by today's standards but this was on a mid-line Eclipse comic back in the 80s.
― earlnash, Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
Aztec Ace on Eclipse was a neat Moench time travel thing.
I loooved cap'n quick and a foozle #1
― Corn on the macabre (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
Willingham didn't rly do porn, and definitely not in the '80s
DC pretty much picked their talent away wholesale
iirc DC taking over their distro was the biggest kiss of death
"oh hey turns out we made you print nine times as many copies as before but no one even ordered 3 copies? Oops. Bye."
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2015 04:28 (eight years ago) link