Valiant resurgence

reekdog · Post by **reekdog** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:34 am

Hi,

just found this site and am glad to know that I'm not the only one out there who still enjoy's the Valiant Universe! (I even have complete sets unopened packs Valiant Universe trading cards) :littlesmile:

At one time, Valiant comic book's were some of the most hyped and sought after titles produced but, then everything came to a halt.

My question is, what happened to cause the interest in Valiant's Universe to die out?

Also, is there a chance that we might see a resurgence of interest or, a revival of characters like XO Man-O-War?

reekdog

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:23 am

reekdog wrote: My question is, what happened to cause the interest in Valiant's Universe to die out?

Many dealer felt "burned" when they couldn't turn around and sell last weeks book for double or more cover price in a week. Bad writing lost many readers. And the company stopped making books.

reekdog wrote: Also, is there a chance that we might see a resurgence of interest or, a revival of characters like XO Man-O-War?
reekdog

Dark Horse is reprinting Gold Key Magnus & Solar.
I-Books is going to have new Magnus stories in Graphic Novel formate next year.

reekdog · Post by **reekdog** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:41 am

What about XO Man-O-War and Shadowman? Are those titles still being produced?

reekdog

dave · Post by **dave** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:24 am

no-actually no new material is being produced as far as i know...even the new dark horse and i-books stuff is reprinted material-isn't it x-o?

i'm not 100% sure-but i believe that to be the case anyway...

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:35 am

As of right now, none of the Valiant titles are being produced. Valiant has been folded and Acclaim now owns all rights to the properties except Magnus, Solar and Turok. Acclaim at the moment is going through bankruptcy and have no plans whatsoever to relaunch these books.

As for the Magnus and Solar books coming out soon, they are reprints of the early Gold Key comics from what I heard.

reekdog · Post by **reekdog** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:40 am

Thank's for the update.

Btw, what happened to Jim Shooter and is he still writing/drawing comics?

reekdog

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:08 pm

The i-books Magnus will be all new material.

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:22 pm

dave wrote:no-actually no new material is being produced as far as i know...even the new dark horse and i-books stuff is reprinted material-isn't it x-o?

i'm not 100% sure-but i believe that to be the case anyway...

I-Books will be new stories and art. Not reprint stuff.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:06 pm

reekdog wrote:Thank's for the update.

Btw, what happened to Jim Shooter and is he still writing/drawing comics?

reekdog

After Valiant he created two more companies (Defiant Comics and Broadway Comics) both of which died like every other new company in the 90's. If you do a word search for "Defiant and Broadway Comics" you can find atleast one fan site (with forums) devoted to the companies.

In 1999, Shooter was hired by Accliam (who bought Valiant) to write his characters one last time in a series called Unity 2000 but the company stopped publishing in midseries (information on the miniseries can be found in the site contents for this site).

Shooter has since moved on to work at a sci-fi company named Phobos which can be found at www.phobosweb.com Sadly he hasn't done comics since 1999.

reekdog · Post by **reekdog** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:29 pm

Thank's.

You guy's are gooood...

reekdog

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:52 am

Keep hanging around. Sometimes we behave badly!

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