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Did anyone else see the poster by mico Suyan featuring all the characters? It includes Shadowman!
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I am excited. There's some footage of Bloodshot fighting some dudes that looks really good.

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Joshua wrote:I am excited. There's some footage of Bloodshot fighting some dudes that looks really good.
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BugsySig wrote:Did anyone else see the poster by mico Suyan featuring all the characters? It includes Shadowman!
no i havent seen that .... :o

if there is a pic floating out there .. please post it here.
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bygranddesign wrote:
BugsySig wrote:Did anyone else see the poster by mico Suyan featuring all the characters? It includes Shadowman!
no i havent seen that .... :o

if there is a pic floating out there .. please post it here.
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Loving that poster :cloud9:

Roku rules that poster .. awesome to see. :high-five:
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battlepark wrote:plenty of positive posts about it in the comments section!
Hell yeah! Lets keep that going

Everyone here who likes the trailer ... Just click the thumbs up for the video ... and post a comment of support

Share the video on social media ... share it with your friends and family

Currently at 115K views / 4,300 likes ... I'd love to see this get to 200K views / 10,000 likes by Monday midnight :thumb:

Lets do this!!!

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I've shared the trailer all over to get word out on Valiant because I'm tired of Iron Fist and Luke Cage getting all the spotlight lately. I am, however, a little nervous about the production quality of the web series. I know it isn't Hollywood budget, but this first impression has to win the general public over, in order for people to take Valiant seriously.

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I wonder if Bat in the Sun came up with their name or their logo first.
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chriskay99 wrote:I wonder if Bat in the Sun came up with their name or their logo first.
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Anyone else notice the Savage easter egg? :)

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Moots wrote:Anyone else notice the Savage easter egg? :)
No. Do tell.
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Finally got a chance to watch it. Some notes along the way:

The Valiant Digital logo sequence is really beautiful. Crisp, clean, and simple, perfectly contrasting to the nostalgia-laden logos Marvel and DC have gone for nowadays. I also liked the music. Very 90s arcadey, felt appropriate.

With Valiant's support this should be Bat in the Sun going as all-out as they can, and it really looks it. Everything looks pretty solid, even most of the CGI....save for a couple really glaring standouts (namely the X-O armor at the end and the shot of MI6 at the beginning). Those could be potentially ironed out before release, but will they is another question.

Back when it was first teased I referred to it as "Super Power Beat Down with a Valiant paint-job", and with a name like "Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe" that description is sounding more and more spot-on. And I said previously that that wasn't necessarily bad, since it can work as a good first impression of what Valiant has in store for the non-comics audience. I also found a reaction vid that made another excellent point: this could also be a very extensive proof-of-concept to Sony, showing both how to do their characters right and how much potential they have.

Speaking of reactions, I tried scoping around a bit to see how response has been, particularly with the non-comics crowd. It's looking like Bat in the Sun has their audience's interest, and I'm also seeing a lot of good vibes from fans of Jason David Frank and Arrow's Deadshot specifically. So yeah, Valiant's definitely pulling at all the right circles here.

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Phoenix8008 wrote:
Moots wrote:Anyone else notice the Savage easter egg? :)
No. Do tell.

0:30 in the drawer there is a note saying "Where is Savage?"

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Looks like a helluva lotta fun, can't wait to see more! :clap: :thumb:
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Elveen wrote:Who can we name in the trailer?
Sonic Dan in the MI6 scene!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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grendeljd wrote:
Elveen wrote:Who can we name in the trailer?
Sonic Dan in the MI6 scene!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
The man stands out, because I saw him on my first view of it, among all the awesome s***. A Natural!!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

This can be the superhero thing that neither Marvel or DC can do, right now: just showing off the properties, no need for a super thick plot, just blow everyone's mind away with Ninjak, Bloodshot, etc, doing their thing.

That shot with BS closing the head bullet wound, and the knife... that's adult level violence that only an indie publisher can use as a greeting card: Valiant superheroes SHOULD be more indie, non-conventional and all that. This series can give viewers a taste of what's happening here for the last 4 1/2 years.

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Moots wrote:
Phoenix8008 wrote:
Moots wrote:Anyone else notice the Savage easter egg? :)
No. Do tell.

0:30 in the drawer there is a note saying "Where is Savage?"
I noticed and was gonna post. You beat me to it!

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ShadowTuga wrote:
grendeljd wrote:
Elveen wrote:Who can we name in the trailer?
Sonic Dan in the MI6 scene!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
The man stands out, because I saw him on my first view of it, among all the awesome s***. A Natural!!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

This can be the superhero thing that neither Marvel or DC can do, right now: just showing off the properties, no need for a super thick plot, just blow everyone's mind away with Ninjak, Bloodshot, etc, doing their thing.

That shot with BS closing the head bullet wound, and the knife... that's adult level violence that only an indie publisher can use as a greeting card: Valiant superheroes SHOULD be more indie, non-conventional and all that. This series can give viewers a taste of what's happening here for the last 4 1/2 years.


I know this will be great for us, at least. Seeing Livewire made me lose all my cool moves.
+100000000000000

Couldn't agree more. :thumb:

From everything I've seen - they got the tone right.

It's a superhero universe ... But it's mature, hard boiled and provocative. I'm glad they didn't water down the violence especially when it comes to bloodshot.
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I am so so excited for this! Can't release soon enough!
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God, the actress playing Roku is terrible. The other stuff looked neat, though, especially the split second of X-O in flight. The level of violence is something that I don;t really want to see, but I hoe the web series does what Valiant wants it to for them. :hope:

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Tim wrote:God, the actress playing Roku is terrible. The other stuff looked neat, though, especially the split second of X-O in flight. The level of violence is something that I don;t really want to see, but I hoe the web series does what Valiant wants it to for them. :hope:
That guy that threatens Bloodshot with a grenade in the Bloodshot trailer is bloody awful too. It looks to me like there will be some parts of this that are amazing, and some that really, well, aren't.

I'm going to patiently reserve my thoughts on this one until I see the final cut however :)



On another note, I did read today that apparently the first and final episodes will be double length at 15 mins apiece, which is cool
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This is all very exciting to me! I can't wait for a few other things to come up! What I do know is we need more views of this though! Gotta get lots more people talking about this.

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greg wrote:This is one of those "where were you when..." events.

Where were you when you saw live action Valiant? :D
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Aram wrote:
greg wrote:This is one of those "where were you when..." events.

Where were you when you saw live action Valiant? :D
Right here, just now. :lol:

Or rather on a bench outside my work with my phone..
The more people that respond to this question, the less I think it probably actually is a "Where were you when..." event.

We're all just like "at home" or "at work". No-one yet like "I saw it on my phone whilst riding my unicycle through Times Square during an epic lightning storm" or "whilst free-climbing up a formation in Death Valley"
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