An Open Letter To Image Comics: You’re Doing Beautiful Work For The Culture

Dear Image Comics, A couple years ago in 2010, I was involved in a poetry slam competition that was for fun. It was the beauty vs brawn (women vs men) slam. The men lose every year and this particular year the women were out for bodies man, no prisoners taken breh. It was rough, EIC Will Evans was captain, he could tell you ’bout it. Although things looked bleak but we persevered through the words of Co-Captain Ayinde Russel as we took hits Ayinde walked up and down in his tight tank, muscles flaring, looking each of us in the eye, in the windows of our fucking soul and saying, [quote_simple]“Hey! We’re just here to do beautiful work. Okay? Don’t you worry about this, we’re here for beautiful work!”[/quote_simple] To this day when we remember Ayinde speaking that mantra into existence, like clockwork, Will Evans always states, [quote_simple]”That was the most gangsta non-misogynist shit [said] in a battle of sexes competition.”[/quote_simple]

I say that to say this, y’all been doing beautiful work and I keep feeling like you don’t get the credit you deserve. You been Top 5 Dead or Alive for the longest but folk always talk about Marvel and DC Comics as the big two. It’s 2017 and we need to dead that noise. It’s the Big 3 right now, and best believe it’s not in that order either ’cause y’all been dropping ether. I know y’all banded together on some FUBU (for us artist by us artist) shit to get y’all creators’ creations out in the world and have ’em get the proper credit and m…