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I had to fill out dismissal paperwork with Valiant, and all new hire forms when I was hired at Alien Books. But I know this is not what the poll is asking lol.

I’m kind of on your side, I think the problem is Fred Pierce who hires the editors and the fact they kept Lysa Hawkins who has continued to produce ‘patchy’ at best books is the issue. We need new vision, someone in charge who can pick better creators more consistently. I assume Hawkins has been be...

What was the goal? Blame?

Oh boy

PS I bought ManoftheAtom a gift card so he can read some of the releases. Enjoy!

Anyway, this is as good a place as any to say!

I actually logged in today to say goodbye to you guys! I have left Alien Books for another opportunity. I will still visit.

It will be nice to be back on the fan side of Valiant!

Jae Lee did the cover for the VIP trAshcan, so I am predisposed to take the side of anyone feuding with him. I was aghast he was allowed to do a Valiant cover. VIP aside, it was a messed up situation. Antos and Tom King tried to end his career, and in Tom King’s case, tried to save face after. Anto...

Hopefully X is finally going to die out as a website sometime soon.

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That's interesting. I never thought about it like that. Who still needs an ending from Dysart? I posted above but may have gotten overlooked in my responses to people. LaD is a great ending for a contained story, but everything is in place for Harada and all the characters to come back and be picke...

Either way it was fun chatting with you guys. I hope I cleared up some confusion. The best thing now is that there is a future ahead!

Well Antos is initiating those like she did with Tom King for Jae’s blacklisting, so not really a feed the trolls. And how often were you told by retailers why they weren’t ordering Valiant any longer? I feel like that would happen as often as when i tell a waitress the food sucked, which is rarely...

If there were conversations had about those tweets, I wasn't there for them - I was always of the practice "don't feed the trolls" We had Jae lee on an exclusive cover for Rai 2019, that also later got used for the deluxe, so as far as seeing personal "feuds" influencing the mate...

Forgive me for asking, What is Renie? I'm not just saying this, but I am truly clueless about her social media use things and what they meant for the books. I am not sure we even followed each other on twitter tbh? Who she was outside of the office was whatever - I liked working with her because she...

From my perspective, it felt like the 'DMG' Valiant comics were always super focused on trying to bring in new and younger readers instead of trying to figure out what the current, older Valiant fans wanted to read. That's fair enough, and understandable from a business perspective. But as an older...

From my perspective, it felt like the 'DMG' Valiant comics were always super focused on trying to bring in new and younger readers instead of trying to figure out what the current, older Valiant fans wanted to read. That's fair enough, and understandable from a business perspective. But as an older...

Could we get something impactful that Hawkins or Antos did do in their Valiant roles while you were there? impactful? WIt’s Valiant, a brand that’s had its share of highs and lows over the years, and people have always had mixed feelings about it no matter what. What’s considered impactful varies f...

They did all that, but there was still a boss above them who could say yes or no, or give orders. Works that way in most places, depending on who is the manager. Some places give more freedom - most don't I don't know how much clearer you need it. I don't have an autopsy report with every single day...

Fred Pierce was in full charge after Dinesh left. That's it. That was the boss. Editors pitched books, but no single editor had FULL control over the publishing line, talent, etc - Everything had to be approved by Fred, even before it went higher up. Both Lysa and Heather did the best they could, w...

I shouldn't have brought it up, I'm only interested in the comics themselves. But since comic book 'eras' are usually classified by who the EiC is, I thought it noteworthy that post-Antos DMG and Alien will have the same head editor. Take from that whatever you want. :? Antos was only (one of) the ...

The 2024 line! But I am biased :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Well there’s thousands of posts on this site from people who actually buy the comics, so you can see what works and what goes down like a lead balloon. Virtually everything after Dinesh was ousted up until Alien got involved was a car crash (wi...

The 2024 line!


But I am biased

It’s on the way. It got missed on FOC by diamond UK (what I was told) Alien got enough copies together to fulfill the order. It’s on the way. Sorry for the wait. I’ll see if I could get an ETA for you This could well be an explanation for LOTS of issues in the UK at the moment. facepalm I don't kno...

Oh it’s allllll possible

It’s on the way. It got missed on FOC by diamond UK (what I was told)
Alien got enough copies together to fulfill the order. It’s on the way. Sorry for the wait. I’ll see if I could get an ETA for you

I wonder if so many of these came out because of the extras the printer was skimming for themselves (Jim Shooter mistakenly likes to tell the story about this as "Bootleg comics" lol) or if it was just a genuine lack of quality control at the time since soo much was coming out! Chromium is...