The discussion over Jim Lee's bigger handling of DC got me thinking
In retrospect, how would you rate his handling of Wildstorm Productions from 1998 to 2010 when it was a DC imprint?
Not just the main Wildstorm stuff Jim Lee himself made but also all the other creator owned other titles and licenseshit it released
It existed
James Gunn going to make the wolf storm characters the big bad in the DCU. The authority going to be the main villains of Superman legacy.
>The authority going to be the main villains of Superman legacy.
That’s moronic. It’s probably true isn’t it?
People clapped when Gunn did his thing with Peacemaker and Vigilante, so now he has free reign to just make the Authority the Elite.
You bet he's gonna meld Manchester Black and Jenny Sparks into one character.
Joe Casey's Wildcats 3.0 was Kino
Jim Lee let writers go nuts and disrupt status quos. Ellis obviously changed everything. Morrison's aborted run seemed interesting.
It gave us Planetary. And in a way, it gave us Moore's ABC line.
The licensed shit was okay, interesting with mixed results. Would have loved to the New Line Cinema horror line be more than just a failed experiment.
It peaked during the 2000s.
I wish it lasted a little longer before being closed and absorbed by the main DCU.
interesting I enjoyed gears of war and residen evil ones.
I have no idea why you old Gen Xers don’t get that Jim Lee doesn’t give a shit about Wildstorm except grifter. He used it as collateral to get into DC . Now he’s got a steady gig running a company and doesn’t care about his z-listers
>t. moronic zoomer
It’s facts, sorry you thought WildCATS was the coolest shit 30 years ago but Jim hasn’t cared about it in 20+ years.
WildCATs was literally my favorite thing ever growing up but I accepted this fact decades ago. Lee never seemed too terribly interested in doing creative stuff it just seems like he likes the business side of stuff. He tried buying Marvel back in the 90s during the latter half of Heroes Reborn but him half assing that latter half killed that deal. But he was a tit hair away from owning Marvel.
No way Jim Lee was that rich
It was the 90s.
Image was on top of the world, and Marvel was bankrupt.
Marvel was balls deep in bankruptcy at the time and Liefeld, Lee, and McFarlane made a metric frick ton of money from early 90s Marvel and founding Image. Like Liefeld talks about how the artists in his studio would wreck his fancy cars and he’d just buy new ones. Marvel was not worth anywhere near the $4 billion that Disney paid for it at the time…this was way before the MCU, Spider-Man, X-Men, and even Blade movies. The only Marvel character at the time that managed to get on the silver screen was Howard the Duck.
>reading comprehension
Thread is about what it was like back when he ran the thing as a whole
Not just his own creations but getting other creations be made
Lee didn't do anything special, it was the brit and Brubaker who made things interesting.
This is about him a publisher/editor/head of an imprint, not as an actual writer
And what he did as publisher is throw his creations to the wolves and have them break and remake them to try and capture what Ellis and Millar and Hitch and Quietly did. Again, he stopped caring. Getting a monthly Batman book was miles more important to him than owning a company of d-listers.
If something the brits improved everything
He did good
>Jim Lee doesn't give a shit about Wildstorm except Grifter, Apollo and Midnighter
Fixed
I've seen people say Jim Lee doesn't even care about anything at this point
Why would he? He has over 100 million dollars already and a lifetime salary to do absolutely nothing.
He cares about being attached to a big property, I think he loved the idea of the New 52 being the basis for the movies. I mean some of his most extensive work in the last 10 years was storyboarding Zack Snyder’s Justice League trilogy concept.
Lee really believed the DCEU was gonna be a milestone
Why couldn't he turn Wildstorm into that big property?
Are wildstorm IPs still present in mainline dc or is that not a thing anymore?
Isn't Wildcats having a mini now?
There's a WildCats book but the team is from another Earth.
It's a mess of a book and will probably never impact outside of itself.
So it's not canon then?
No one will ever reference it at least.
theres a stormwatch serial happening in the Batman anthology monthly as well.
canon doesn't exist in big2 comics, its only "canon" if whatever current stories happening reference or don't completely refute.
Jim Lee didn't do shit, he was pretty much hands off besides hiring a few people to run the show
I feel like DC didn't do a good job advertising their existence honestly.
I do enjoy that they got to exist at least, for however long. Its sad how many publisher and imprints Marvel has purchased that just languish.
Would it kill him if he gave a frick about Majestic?
he runs DC and can draw a superman book whenever he wants, he doesn't need his OC donut steel, who isn't even the most popular Wildstorm OC Superman, anymore.
I still remember when Helspont beat Supes
That's a shit logo
I just want sexy teenagers back on comics. It's that wrong?
I'd r8 it gr8, because he handed it off to Scott Dunbier and got out of the way and played vidya instead.
Imagine if we had a Wildstorm Cinematic Universe (tm)
What would yours look like, anons?
>Wildstorm Cinematic Universe
>Directed by Zack Snyder
Kino or kuso?
kys
He's the right fit for that specific mind of capeshit
Really?
Start with Stormwatch and set up the Authority by the end of the movie.
I see more potential in StormWatch than just setting up the Authority (although that is a given). The general arc of the first 20 or so issues of the original series, culminating in the clash with Despot and the Warguard and the destruction of SkyWatch is pretty rich with material, and there were a number of different versions that sprang up as well.
How would you set up WildCATS? With Team 7?
Nah, straight up adaptation of the original mini series
Team 7 happens when everybody is introduced, and we've 'made it' - it's essentially a crossover story, or even part of one. Mind, Team 7 needs to be a part of Gen13, as well
Jim Lee is a fricking traitor who cares more about money than actual quality. Wildstorm was great in the 90s but has suffered since then. I know DC is trying desperately to make Grifter stay relevant in the post-nu 52 landscape but none of the writers actually understand what made Grifter a fan favorite. Jim Lee does not give a single shit anymore about Wildstorm and DC only keeps some of the characters in the public consciousness because they don't want their investment to be for nothing.
Gen13 was the best WildStorm team