Were the last days of Acclaim/Valiant good ones?

CLA · Post by **CLA** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:07:59 pm

I noticed the creators on the covers of the Accliams'. Maguire, Waid, Guice and other very popular creators. My question is, how could these books be in low demand when the best talent in the industry was working on them?

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:18:29 pm

CLA wrote:I noticed the creators on the covers of the Accliams'. Maguire, Waid, Guice and other very popular creators. My question is, how could these books be in low demand when the best talent in the industry was working on them?

Very easy. Many Store owners were feeling burnt by Valiant and didn't order many. Some stores I know of didn't order any at all. The books ignored what came before in Valiant history. It is never good to turn on your fan base. Q&W did get some support but not enough to kick them going.

CLA · Post by **CLA** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:23:49 pm

x-omatic wrote:Very easy. Many Store owners were feeling burnt by Valiant and didn't order many. Some stores I know of didn't order any at all. The books ignored what came before in Valiant history. It is never good to turn on your fan base. Q&W did get some support but not enough to kick them going.

So these guys totally ignored continuity? Wow. That's a big no-no in the comic industry.
Were the Acclaim/Valiants good books?

CLA · Post by **CLA** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:42:50 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:The Valiant books were GREAT... Acclaim.... well they should have stuck to Video games

I'm a little lost. Was Acclaim publishing books labeled as "Acclaim/Valiant" and "Valiant" at the same time?

CLA · Post by **CLA** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:49:09 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:no no... dont quote me on Acclaim. I was thinking you meant Valiant or Acclaim/Valiant... I dont really consider them the same.

So...I should stay away from the "Acclaim/Valiant" label?

CLA · Post by **CLA** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:52:22 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:I would read a few and see if you like them.

Personally I am a die hard Valiant (VH1) fan. Everything else... well, to me it just looks bad. Guess I am old school.

Was there any really good stuff after Shooter left?

R Daneel · Post by **R Daneel** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:17:10 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:Still my favorite of favorite times were when Shooter was writing the early Valiant stuff.

Pre-Unity and Unity were by far my favorite times - I can't think of anything going on at that time that I did NOT like.

comicguy · Post by **comicguy** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:41:10 am

Those Unity and preunity comics were like magic in a sense. We were getting at that time what was not available in most comics good art with a great story.

I tended to drift away from comics in general about the time of chaos affect. I started a new business and had a family to support, so comic lost out.

That being said by the time I came back to comics Valiant was gone!! and it did not even occur to me at that time to finish my runs, when I did start I found that most of the Valiant comics were getting kinda suckey towards the end

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:22:22 pm

what about turok? i only have a few of the earlier issues, but i do have the last one. what about up till then? bloodshot turned on me at about issue 45.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:53:32 pm

Knightt_333 wrote: So my question is this... is there ANY Valiant title out there that was a good read up to the end ?

Shadowman!

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