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I was able to get a press pass and will be attending LBCC this year. I'll be there to take photos of cosplayers and panels mostly. I'll be there for the Valiant panel on Sat. I see that CGC will be there. Has anyone slabbed their comic(s) through CGC at a convention? Is it recommended and is the pro...

Got some photos to share with you guys from Comikaze Expo this weekend in Los Angeles, CA. I went all 3 days and took a ton of photos of cosplayers, panels, random stuff, and of course Valiant's panel on Friday evening. The Valiant booth: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7380/10666147504_6d60269593_b.j...

I was at the Valiant panel at SDCC 2013. I took some pictures from my seat. Normally I will move around for small rooms, but I was pretty exhausted from carrying around 35lbs of camera gear and stuff all day. So my pictures are really of just the panel. Full album on G+: https://plus.google.com/phot...

Yes, do not buy the pullbox variants at more than cover. VEI messed up a bit here by marking these "Variant cover" in the UPC box, same as they do with the limited variants. (Not that I have a good solution.) Many shops cannot be bothered to know what is going on with them. I'd suggest yo...

Midtown comics has some..You can even order them online. :thumb: Yup, I'm thinking that this is where comic shopping should be done if you really want to get something. Smaller, local shops don't have the muscle to compete against chains and businesses that order in such high quantity and are able ...

See if paradise comics is within your area they are north side. I stopped by on my way through last month and they were all very nice there. Ed, one of the owners is active here as well. Edit* oh and get a slice of movie star approved pizza from amores next door... The all meat was delicious! ;-) I...

So I've been back into collecting comics again after nearly 17 years. I've been reading the new Valiants and other comics for about a month and a half now, and I'm noticing that variant covers are the new thing now? There's ratios like 1:25, 1:50, 1:100 etc. Those I can understand, they are small in...

I'm a big fan of social networks/media. I'm finding this forum to be a bit old school -- which is fine if that's everyone else's thing. Forums just doesn't integrate well into my workflow of how I consume and interact with digital information. Also a bit of a pain to search for things with keywords...

I just joined the G+ community for Valiant Comic Fans. :) There's also a Comic Book Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/116640187442726311437 I'm a big fan of social networks/media. I'm finding this forum to be a bit old school -- which is fine if that's everyone else's thing. Forums just...

Twenty years ago Valiant was on the cover of Wizard magazine issue #17 (January 1993). There's an article (The State of Valiant Address) in there by Rober Samsel with an interview with Steve Massarsky , Bob Layton , Jon Hartz and Barry Windsor-Smith (BWS) . I thought it was pretty interesting and th...

For any photogs out there, I used a Canon 5DM3 with my 24-105 f/4 L lens. I don't know what that is, but those are some nice pictures! There were a handful of us (board members) there. We'll have to meet up at the next con. Welcome to the board. :thumb: Thanks! In SoCal I try to attend as many cons...

For any photogs out there, I used a Canon 5DM3 with my 24-105 f/4 L lens. Those turned out good. The lighting at conventions can be less than desirable. I use a Nikon D60. I won't be giving it up anytime soon, but how do you like Canon? (photograph geek alert) I really enjoy my Canon gear. Not to s...

That's me! Totally small world, or maybe Los Angeles is where all the cool VFs are at? I'm still blown away how much exposure to in real life (IRL) VFs I've had in the past month since I picked up Valiant again! Besides Elveen and drmirage, a lot of stores I visit, the people working there have noth...

Nice meeting you too drmirage! Small world indeed!

Just a week before LBCC, I found out that Valiant was back. I didn't do much research before going to LBCC and was surprised to see Valiant there. They were giving out some Archer & Armstrong #1 Golds, and I was able to get one! All around a great panel with a lot of great questions coming from ...

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I haven't used a traditional forum in such a long time. I've mostly been on the StackExchange (SE) sites such as the SciFi SE: http://scifi.stackexchange.com to get my nerd on. Hope I can get used to this quickly!

Hi, this is my first post on ValiantFans. Here's my Valiant story... I first really got into comics in 1992, when I heard on the news that DC Comics was going to kill Superman. I read comics a bit before, but I never really visited a comic shop before. Back then, I was a young teenager that had my m...