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Wildstorm was one of the founding studios that joined together in 1992 to form Image Comics. Wildstorm grew out of Homage Studios which was founded by artists Scott Williams, Whilce Portacio , Jim Lee, and Joe Chiodo in San Diego, California. Lee, Williams, and Portacio had gained notoriety from their work on various X-Men titles at Marvel Comics.
In late 1992 penciler Marc Silvestri joined the studio to work on the first issue of "Cyberforce". Although he worked at the studio, his projects were to debut as a new Image imprint named Top Cow. Silvestri continued to work out of Wildstorm's studio for about two years, then moved his staff up to Santa Monica so that he could be closer to Hollywood. Although there was some thought of grabbing talent from the "Big Two"" ( Marvel and DC), Lee decided instead to find new talent.
Lee's talent search yielded Brett Booth in 1992, and then J. Scott Campbell in 1993. Apart from McFarlane's Spawn, Wildstorm produced the most consistently commercially successful comics from Image, including Lee's own titles WildC.A.T.s and the teen hero title Gen13, illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. Like many other Image titles, some of the Wildstorm titles were plagued with inconsistent completion and shipping, resulting in "monthly" comics coming out every few months. This era however, produced a number of titles of varying popularity including the afformentioned Gen 13 and WildC.A.T.s, Stormwatch, Deathblow , Cybernary , and Whilce Portacio's Wetworks .
Attempts to get his studio's characters into other media were disappointing. A Saturday morning cartoon series of "WildCATS" suffered from poor production values, and lasted only a single season, while a full-length animated version of "Gen-13" was completed, but never saw the light of day due to Disney's distribution problems. Toys from both titles were less successful than those made by Todd McFarlane, partly due to bad marketing and partly due to the fact that the McFarlane toys were targeted for a more mature audience.
19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t debuted the Cliffhanger imprint - a line of creator-owned comic books which included to this day such popular works as J. Scott Campbell's Danger GirlDanger Girl is a comic book written and illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. The comic features a trio of busty, scantily-clad secret agents. Image Comics titles., Joe Madureira's Battle Chasers , Humberto Ramos 's Crimson , Joe Kelly 's SteampunkSteampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner. It includes ficti and Warren EllisThis article is about Warren Ellis, the writer of comic books. There is a separate article about Warren Ellis, the violinist and composer. Warren Ellis is a British author of comic books and graphic novels. Ellis' writing career started in the British ind's Red , Tokyo Stom Warning , Mek and ReloadReload can refer to: 1997 album named Reload by Metallica. 1999 album named Reload by Tom Jones..This year also saw a huge revamp of all the Wildstorm universe titles, including such prominent comic book names as Alan MooreAlan Moore (born November 18, 1953) is a British writer and co-creator of comic books such as Watchmen and V for Vendetta''. Beginning his career writing strips for publications such as Doctor Who Monthly (or Weekly as it was then), Moore went on to work, Warren Ellis, Adam Warren , Sean Phillips and Joe Casey . After this revamp the new Wildcats series, Stormwatch and Dv8 took the places of the most popular and the most commercialy sucessfull comics of the Wildstorm Universe.