The Wildstorm Universe kicked off in 1992 with WildC.A.T.s #1 (by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, Scott Williams, Joe Rosas, and Michael Heisler), right around the time when Image Comics first launched. Wildstorm didn't have the problems that Image did: they were on a much better schedule, and they had an entire universe of fleshed-out characters. Wildstorm was eventually sold to DC Comics, where the line and world soldiered on as its own entity into the 2000s.