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kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:51 pm

My sketch covers so far; a Diego Bernard X-O and a Matt Kindt Ninjak. I love the last annotation on Ninjak:

grendeljd · Post by **grendeljd** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:54 pm

jmatt wrote:
grendeljd wrote:Oh, man... what if Bloodshot Island is a remote isolated place where they've dumped a bunch of soldiers who were previously part of the early experiential phases of the Bloodshot project?
Sounds really cool. The art looks great. Is that Suayan?

Looks like his style...

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:55 pm

Some Faith covers we may not have seen before:

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:55 pm

Eternal Warrior and Rai meet:

grendeljd · Post by **grendeljd** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:56 pm

kjjohanson wrote:
jaden_sai wrote:
kjjohanson wrote:
Beware Cyclops wrote:
grendeljd wrote:
kjjohanson wrote:Rai statue coming next year.

CGC branded covers planned for the near future
What do they mean by CGC branded covers?
The covers feature the cgc labelling as if the entire comic was slabbed. With the characters reacting to having been slabbed.
I actually mentioned this idea to Dinesh a couple months ago through a message on the board here. When they announced it at the panel, they mentioned they had been working on this for a while. I spoke to him after the panel and commented that he hadn't mentioned that when I proposed the idea, and he clarified that they had been working on it since I proposed it. It's going to be fun trying to find a 9.8 of the 9.8 covers.
Are the Variants going to be 9.9 and the hard to find 10 ?
I thought it would be cool if they did a number of variations at the different grades, with a couple being incentives for the top grades, but I can understand that being a big risk, so it looks like there will be one per book. There were a couple of images show, but below is the one I got a pic of. It appears as if the label says "Valiant's CGC Variant Edition," which is what I imagine the actual label would read. I'll be trying to get a 9.8 to slab of the A&A, but I probably won't strive to get a 3.0 of the WotEW.

what a fun idea for variants!

grendeljd · Post by **grendeljd** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:57 pm

kjjohanson wrote:The Rai statue prototype:

Holy crap, that RAI statue is amazing!!!

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:00 pm

A few other notes:

At the panel, I asked whether we might be seeing an ongoing series starring a female character, since they teased an icon-level female character. The response was that a news site speculated on that, and tossed the question to the Faith writer.

As DBS speculated, it does seem that Divinity 2 is going to feature a serious involvement of the female cosmonaut from the first mini.

I asked Matt Kindt whether he would be continuing on Rai and Ninjak after the first dozen issues, and while he said that he initially invisioned about a year on Ninjak, he came up with more avenues he'd like to explore, so he'll be on the book longer. And Rai offers a whole world to explore, so he doesn't anticipate going anywhere soon. Crain too seemed to see a future on Rai after the current arc (no pun intended).

jmatt · Post by **jmatt** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 11:38 pm

grendeljd wrote:Holy crap, that RAI statue is amazing!!!

The weird Crain thigh gap even made it to the statue!

Ras the future fan · Post by **Ras the future fan** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:07 am

grendeljd wrote:Oh, man... what if Bloodshot Island is a remote isolated place where they've dumped a bunch of soldiers who were previously part of the early experiential phases of the Bloodshot project?

Like the TV show The Prisoner, just with Bloodshots cool idea.

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:11 am

I know they mentioned this previously, but they once again teased something with 4001. No details.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:10 am

jmatt wrote:
grendeljd wrote:Holy crap, that RAI statue is amazing!!!
The weird Crain thigh gap even made it to the statue!

Thigh gap is Shrn.

BugsySig · Post by **BugsySig** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:57 am

The CGC covers are hilarious. What a cool idea.

4001...I know it would be major speculation and hopefulness, but what if we got a last page reveal of Magnus: Robot Fighter

nscc · Post by **nscc** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:29 pm

BugsySig wrote:The CGC covers are hilarious. What a cool idea.

4001...I know it would be major speculation and hopefulness, but what if we got a last page reveal of Magnus: Robot Fighter

Agree on the covers and I'd be just as happy if it was Gilad: Robot Fighter But yours would be great too!

agent_graves · Post by **agent_graves** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:35 pm

Those CGC Variants, thats a pretty cool idea, and those statues are must haves.

grendeljd · Post by **grendeljd** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:57 pm

jmatt wrote:
grendeljd wrote:Holy crap, that RAI statue is amazing!!!
The weird Crain thigh gap even made it to the statue!

tiredofmyself · Post by **tiredofmyself** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:14 am

Are they in the same scale? I don't know whether Rai is bigger than normal human.

DirtbagSailor · Post by **DirtbagSailor** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:28 am

tiredofmyself wrote:Are they in the same scale? I don't know whether Rai is bigger than normal human.

I've always figured that Bloodshot stands about 6' 3" at about 230-250 lbs (similar in build to Batman; Superman; Conan; and Captain America).

Rai, as a positron, likely would be engineered differently from the ground-up. I suspect he is more along the lines of a bulked NBA start at about 7' at 275-300 lbs.

Lebron James is 6' 8" at 250 lbs

Dwight Howard is 6' 10" at 270 lbs

Karl Malone is 6' 10" at 270

Blake Griffin is 6' 10" at 260 lbs

Serge Ibaka is 6' 10 at 245 lbs

David Robinson is 7' 1" at 270 lbs

Rai has a similar build, but a good 10-20% more mass. I suspect 7' at 300 is a good call.

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:51 pm

I was at the panel on Saturday as well. Enjoyed hearing about all the new stuff coming down the pipe.

Also got some pics of the Eternal Warrior decaled car - I'll post them up later this week.

And for sure I went back to the Valiant booth after the panel and spoke the secret word - THANKS FOR THE GOLD BOOKS, VEI!!!

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:12 pm

The office tour was very small this year, perhaps because it was the last day of the convention. A bunch of people signed up for it but there were only about 6 of us that went. Their new offices are right around the corner from my office, so getting the box of con exclusives should be a lot easier than I was expecting. (I hadn't realized that they moved until this weekend.) They just moved a couple of weeks ago so they were still in the unpacking process. Not sure exactly what I can say about what I saw, but I know there's a lot that I can't say, so I'm just going to say that if you get the chance to come to NYCC in the future, don't miss the office tour.

jmatt · Post by **jmatt** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:18 pm

kjjohanson wrote:(I hadn't realized that they moved until this weekend.)

I hadn't heard anything about that either. Rent in Manhattan is crazy, it makes sense to go to a smaller place. Wish I could have been there.

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:02 am

jmatt wrote:
kjjohanson wrote:(I hadn't realized that they moved until this weekend.)
I hadn't heard anything about that either. Rent in Manhattan is crazy, it makes sense to go to a smaller place. Wish I could have been there.

The place is actually a little bigger. (At least it seems so, but there's no significant size difference.)

kjjohanson · Post by **kjjohanson** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:03 am

jmatt wrote:
kjjohanson wrote:(I hadn't realized that they moved until this weekend.)
I hadn't heard anything about that either. Rent in Manhattan is crazy, it makes sense to go to a smaller place. Wish I could have been there.

And yes, rent is crazy. My studio's lease is up next summer, and rent has doubled in the last five years (in the same neighborhood as the Valiant offices)

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