The road to success at Image has been achieved by enough creators recently to create a recognizable pattern. Garner attention with a small, self-published title, write or draw for Marvel and DC until you get bored, pitch to Image as an ‘established creator,’ return triumphantly to creator-owned books, but now with the third largest publisher promoting your work. Whether intentional or not, Image is inheriting all of the disparities in representation that plague the industry at large. I sure am glad more people are seeing comics differently because of Image, but without real commitment to diversifying their content and creators, then where is the real change? It’s just the same folks making the same comics for the same people, and anything that succeeds outside of that is just icing on the cake. The comics industry doesn’t need another publisher that has to explain why there are so few women and minorities behind and in their comics.