June 2016 Solicitations

[Keith]

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....um... Imperium?

[jeremycoe]

Sad to see no Imperium, but that probably is due to the fact that sales have been so poor. They can only keep it going so long if the sales aren't there.

[iggy101us]

From legendary writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Eisner Award-winning artist Ashley Wood (Zombies Vs. Robots), discover the acclaimed series that inspired the hit Shadowman video game series – collected here for the first time ever!

"acclaimed series"

[JCP]

A few observations:

1. Agreed! No Imperium?!

2. I love that Bloodshot Reborn mustard yellow variant with dueling guns. I know there has been a lot of discussion about variants on the board, but it's art and some are better than others. This one just looks pretty cool.

3. There is another linewide variant. Any details about the ratio?

4. The 6.0 Bloodshot Reborn CGC is hilarious! All of these CGC variants have been fun. VEI hit a home run with these different covers and they're fun to put all together as a set.

5. There is a goofy-looking, cartoonish Divinity variant. I hope it isn't the high-ratio book. It looks pretty hideous.

[jeremycoe]

I'm excited to see the Ivar deluxe edition. I also really like the Kano cover for Bloodshot Reborn.

[Donovan]

Love that Lafuente Archer & Armstrong cover!

[ValiantCentral]

i'm assuming the linewide will be another 1:100

[jeremycoe]

I would love to see some of the "top secret" covers for X-O.

[BugsySig]

Sad to see Imperium go. Hopefully we will get more Harbinger soon, though.

Digging the mega-interlocking covers for 4001

[Sven the Returned]

Everytime i see one of these threads:

[agent_graves]

http://www.newsarama.com/28510-valiant- ... tions.html

....um... Imperium?

Damn, I didn't even notice, until I went to list what I'd be picking up. Imperium would of made it a 10 (total) issue month...

4001 A.D. #2 (of 4)
4001 A.D.: BLOODSHOT #1
BLOODSHOT REBORN #14 (NEW ARC! “BLOODSHOT ISLAND” – PART 1)
DIVINITY II #3 (of 4)
NINJAK #16
RAI #14 (4001 A.D.)
WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR #8
X-O MANOWAR #47 (NEW ARC! “LONG LIVE THE KING” - PART 1)

[wwise03]

This community can be so paranoid sometimes. I wouldn't jump the gun proclaiming that Imperium is dead. It's most likely just not releasing in June due to the fact that issue 16 is coming out the last week of May. It's far more reasonable to expect a 5 week break in the book than VEI's first ever sneak cancellation. I'm fairly certain that when the book is set to end, we will see a note about it in the solicitation.

[agent_graves]

5. There is a goofy-looking, cartoonish Divinity variant. I hope it isn't the high-ratio book. It looks pretty hideous.

+1

i'm assuming the linewide will be another 1:100

My thoughts as well.....

[BugsySig]

This community can be so paranoid sometimes. I wouldn't jump the gun proclaiming that Imperium is dead. It's most likely just not releasing in June due to the fact that issue 16 is coming out the last week of May. It's far more reasonable to expect a 5 week break in the book than VEI's first ever sneak cancellation. I'm fairly certain that when the book is set to end, we will see a note about it in the solicitation.

Fair enough, but let's not forget Eternal Warrior ending...excuse me, "going on hiatus"...abruptly. I'm sure someone will ask Dino about it on twitter or facebook and he will let us know for sure.

[jeremycoe]

This community can be so paranoid sometimes. I wouldn't jump the gun proclaiming that Imperium is dead. It's most likely just not releasing in June due to the fact that issue 16 is coming out the last week of May. It's far more reasonable to expect a 5 week break in the book than VEI's first ever sneak cancellation. I'm fairly certain that when the book is set to end, we will see a note about it in the solicitation.

Fair enough, but let's not forget Eternal Warrior ending...excuse me, "going on hiatus"...abruptly. I'm sure someone will ask Dino about it on twitter or facebook and he will let us know for sure.

And Shadowman and Quantum & Woody.

[JCP]

Speaking of May and June solicitations, I don't think he's offering it, but I wish Ed was offering sets of the 4001 AD one-shot books.

[JCP]

I don't know how the Divinity high-ratio variant goes from this beautiful cover:



To this scuba Steve looking thing:

[kjjohanson]

This community can be so paranoid sometimes. I wouldn't jump the gun proclaiming that Imperium is dead. It's most likely just not releasing in June due to the fact that issue 16 is coming out the last week of May. It's far more reasonable to expect a 5 week break in the book than VEI's first ever sneak cancellation. I'm fairly certain that when the book is set to end, we will see a note about it in the solicitation.

Unless there's some sort of surprise in the last issue.

[hunter_peterson]

Everytime i see one of these threads:

Wow, 4001 Bloodshot looks so much better here than in the design sheet, it's shocking! Suddenly love it!

Also, hopefully Imperium will be back promptly. It would suck if it was more than that.

[Keith]

The solicit for May's issue (in spoilers for the purists)

Toyo Harada has gone to war to save his vision of world peace from the twin threats of his former protégé Livewire and Major Charlie Palmer’s H.A.R.D. Corps! Amid the chaos, the tables have turned…and now, members of Harada’s own team are angling to knife each other in the back! When the villains trying to save humanity fi ght their noblest instincts and the heroes who are trying to stop them struggle against their own demons…can anybody win?

And, now, even as the walls of Harada’s IMPERIUM begin to the fall, the seeds of his
biggest strike yet are already being sown...
Doesn't sound like an ending to me... sounds like setup for a new arc.

[wwise03]

This community can be so paranoid sometimes. I wouldn't jump the gun proclaiming that Imperium is dead. It's most likely just not releasing in June due to the fact that issue 16 is coming out the last week of May. It's far more reasonable to expect a 5 week break in the book than VEI's first ever sneak cancellation. I'm fairly certain that when the book is set to end, we will see a note about it in the solicitation.

Unless there's some sort of surprise in the last issue.

I actually wouldn't mind a surprise. I sometimes wish I had the power to avoid looking at solicitations just so I could be surprised. Wouldn't it be more fun to not know what the next arc of Bloodshot was going to bring until you got the actual issue? Of course I am sure I will continue scouring comic book websites for solicitations every month haha.

[agent_graves]

I asked Dinesh about Imperium on Twitter....

Response..... #LooseLipsSinkShips

It's convention season tho, I'll see if I can get anymore info @ Sccomicon next weekend. But truth is, will know, when they want us to know, hopefully sooner, than later.

[dornwolf]

I don't know how the Divinity high-ratio variant goes from this beautiful cover:



To this scuba Steve looking thing:

Very Archie-esque

[dornwolf]

Don't want to double post but I just realized that Rai's look changed permanently. I was originally thinking that the red arm/side look was just a wound that would be healed eventually. It seems though in an effort to have Rai not look like Bloodshot 4001 basically they moved his red circle to the side and expanded it. I fell so dumb for just now noticing.

[Keith]

I asked Dinesh about Imperium on Twitter....

Response..... #LooseLipsSinkShips

It's convention season tho, I'll see if I can get anymore info @ Sccomicon next weekend. But truth is, will know, when they want us to know, hopefully sooner, than later.

Yeah, here is his responses from overnight:

#LooseLipsSinkShips
#GoneButNotOver
What could have happened? What surprises do the crazy cats @ValiantComics have in store?
Something tells me @JoshuaDysart is not done with that story just yet
Agree! @JoshuaDysart you have some answering to do! What in the world do you have planned?

I'm leaning towards the series ending but perhaps a mini-series to close it out, a la Shadowman.