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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9464078" data-attributes="member: 7044704">I mean, nothing stays hot forever.  It certainly did very well for Dark Horse, and retains a lot of popularity as an IP.  There's reasons it's had multiple movies, even if their quality is...erratic.  Nobody's doing a remake of Barb Wire.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A good example of "not hot forever" but still, a big success that will likely be remembered for a long time - and brought back by nostalgia miners in another ten-fifteen years.  Similar for Invincible, methinks.The success of individual books was all over the place, but yeah, as a line the winners won BIG and it made up for the failed experiments and then some.  Closest thing I can think of from Marvel might be their experiments with the <a href="https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Epic_Comics" target="_blank">Epic Comics line</a> that was spun off of Epic Illustrated, which I enjoyed quite a bit as a kid even if it often felt like a weak imitation of Heavy Metal (which was harder to find and much harder to get past the prudish parents).  Never compared to Vertigo for sales as a line, but at least wasn't all spandex stories and we did get some pretty great stuff out of it.  Still have a soft spot for Dreadstar, the Alien Legion stuff was a solid read (especially for a gamer), and of course Sam & Max are some of the finest products of the entire comics industry.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh.  Looking at the title listings reminds me that Sachs & Violens existed.  The solicits for that book came about about three weeks before the FLGS owner and some of his friends were going to sign a printing contract for their own book Sex & Violence (no relation to the one that did get printed eventually) and they decided to can the whole project in response.  Boy, they were mad about the timing on that.</blockquote>

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