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Honestly, I'm more surprised that IDW is still in business. :o


Heh.

I'm good with IDW doing VALIANT via Alien. It could be good. IDW does make high quality comics, no? I mean in terms of production values and such.

And, who knows, maybe someone in Hollywood is looking and this could be a ...

Honestly, I'm more surprised that IDW is still in business.

I can't help but wonder what the numbers would be if Derek Kolstad wasn't involved would they be lower, the same, or higher? :hm:
Some of this success is because he's wrote the John Wick movies (and FTR I love the John Wick movies) but that is an easy selling point *From the writer of John Wick ...

Chiclo wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 7:55 am So, is National Booksmugglers’ Day an appropriate holiday to remember this thread?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_book_smugglers

Why not? It's way off topic anyway.

Great to see the round 2 arrive with more reasonable expectations! As a fan since the beginning of Defiant until the end, I can’t wait to read Schism after all these years.

I’ve personally avoided reading the plot and produced pages that have been available online for years for some odd reason ...

Maybe they can help Alien get Valiant back on track.


There's a something here about a WWE wrestler saving Acclaim when VALIANT began with publishing WWE comics...


AFAIK Jeff Jarrett has not worked for WWE for at least 10-30 years as in-ring wrestler some of it being that Steve Austin didn ...

To know how to stop it. Obliviously.

What does Star Trek have to do with Detmer? :?


Detmer is a character in Star Trek Discovery.


You are not killing the joke properly.


There's a joke? How is Detmer a joke? I don't get the reference other than the name of the character in Discovery.


I am making a joke that ...

Think of the GK3 like Star Trek or Transformers the owners of IP license them to whoever they want for as long a certain amount of time/sales requirement. They might have certain rules of what you can do major characters (Captain Kirk or Optimus Prime) but more freedom with secondary ...

No, Alien Books is not DMG in disguise, they are a separate company that licensed the VALIANT characters FROM DMG to make comics, the same way Voyager licensed Solar, Magnus, and Turok from Random House/Classic Media.


Voyager licensed the characters directly from Western Publishing, one of ...

If he’s a bot, how can he have an iq? Aren’t bots just scripts that have a pretty limited range of responses? No capacity that would be described by iq.

Your inconsistency distracts from your otherwise rambling and unfocused ad hominem attacks, dude.


There is a Transformers joke here I just ...

This is when that botched Eternal Warrior Kickstarter is really going to bite them in the *SQUEE*. Maybe they overdeliver with the Bloodshot Kickstarter and build some enthusiasm. But I don't think it's going to shake out that way with the rewards shipping in phases and the story already ...

Massive goes Lunar and adds sub distribution arm, Massive Indies

Massive is adding an interesting wrinkle to their plan however: Massive Indies, a sub-distribution program for smaller publishers to go through Lunar via Massive:

This will be an open platform for submitting titles for ...

Valiant is about as popular as Ultraverse in that it's still seen by non-Valiant fans as a popular but failed 90s comics company that is often at best seen now by those non-Valiant fans as a cautionary tale of greedy 90s excess and/or as a joke. Valiant is a cult classic line like Chaos, Defiant ...

I didn’t think it would hit them so heavily. I’m so sad for this and hope they figure out new distribution. I would buy direct, if necessary.

Poor creators who were counting on the work.


This is what happens why you have a monopoly. Companies like Image, Dark Horse, Valiant, IDW, Boom ...

Or even simple trade paper backs since to get new people into Defiant and older fans who don't remember much and don't want to go digging through their collections trying to find all their old issues. I would love to see Warriors of Plasm #0, Dark Dominion #0, Glory #0, and The Good Guys #1/2 ...

I think it would be fun to have multiple events happen at the same time similar to Y The Last Man leaving the reader question which event caused the expansion of powers in the universe. I would use the wish fulfillment plotline, mixed with the reactor meltdown, mixed with something happening in ...

Charlemagne in Latin is Carolus Magnus, though Shooter has said that the similarity between the names is just a coincidence.


Nice. Doesn't Magnus mean Great or 'the Great one'? I had a Great-grandpa named Magnus. Danish :)


It's actually name of the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire ...

Or even simple trade paper backs since to get new people into Defiant and older fans who don't remember much and don't want to go digging through their collections trying to find all their old issues. I would love to see Warriors of Plasm #0, Dark Dominion #0, Glory #0, and The Good Guys #1/2 get ...

Since the same company owns Defiant, Broadway, and the Gold Key characters I've often wondered what a shared universe with all those characters would look like.

Weird.


But nonetheless interesting.

"Doctor Solar meets Plasm"...


Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom meets The Good Guys meets ...

Defiant was a bit of an odd company, and as happy I am about the Schism Kickstarter project. I would also love to see a Defiant Omnibus collecting all the series Warriors of Plasm, Dark Dominion, The Good Guys, Charlamagne, War Dancer, Dogs of War, and the rest of them along with the associated ...

nycjadie wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:02 am It’s huge. End of an era. Maybe for the best. Maybe not.

It could be the end of Diamond remember Marvel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and they're alive and well.

ManofTheAtom wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:24 am Since the same company owns Defiant, Broadway, and the Gold Key characters I've often wondered what a shared universe with all those characters would look like.

Weird.