The 10 Best IMAGE COMICS Series EVER!

You've probably heard the story before. In 1992, Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino and While Portacio -- seven of the biggest artists in the comics industry-- left lucrative work-for-hire gigs to form Image Comics, a publisher built on creator ownership and autonomous control.

This week, Image Comics notched its 20th anniversary, and to celebrate, we've assembled a list of The 10 Best Image Comics Series of their First 20 Years. The company's released a lot of great comics over the years, so of course this list is entirely subjective and hardly exhaustive when it comes to the quality material from the past two decades -- as you'll see, we're kind of fudging with "10 best" anyway. (And if you're wondering, since Warren Ellis's seminal run on Stormwatch bled through to the DC-published The Authority, we elected not to count it for the purposes of this particular list, but can certainly see an argument for both sides.)

Image Comics has evolved a great deal in 20 years while sticking to their creator-owned roots. To take a look at some of the best of what they're produced, click "start here" in the upper-left corner.

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