Bart Sears posted Turok #1 Cover

chimchim · Post by **chimchim** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:54 pm

He posted over at http://www.ominousblog.com the cover art to Turok#1 with a tiny bit of a story.

Just an FYI

dino · Post by **dino** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:02 pm

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:03 pm

I like that Wolvie cover!!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:44 pm

It's really to bad that they could not have made the whole cover in chromium as they originally intended. I would have liked to have seen it.

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:46 pm

I agree. It was a shame that the cover had to be reduced, and cobbled together, even though I think they did a pretty good job of it.

Personally, I never liked what Valiant did with Turok. I actually loathed the story I was drawing.

I did like the X-O's I did with Turok. I thought Ron did a good job of capturing Turoc, or at least made him more interesting. But I am admittedly biased, I've always liked Ron's heroic writing.

Bart Sears

Valiant OCD · Post by **Valiant OCD** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:01 pm

You know Mr. Sears, I originally got hooked on Valiant titles after seeing the cover to XO #10. I just had to read the story that went with that hand bursting out of the ground. I was sure that issue would be my favorite civer for years....... that is until I saw XO #14

I'm glad I have a chance to tell you what an amazing oiece of art that is. Thanks!

greg · Post by **greg** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:32 pm

Interesting... so the original plans were for a full chromium cover.
I think there were also print ads for the book as a chromium "card" cover
(which it was) along with a full foil cover/edges (everwhere besides the card)...

Do you remember what happened to the "full foil" cover (2nd choice) plan?

VanHook · Post by **VanHook** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:09 am

The original idea for the Turok cover was for it to be the first Chromium, full metal coverage, edge to edge. The folks who manufactured the Chromium printing, couldn't get them to not stick together in packaging. Many problems at that point. That's why the hybrid cover. It wasn't until XO #0, shortly after that, (June after April shipping, to the best of my memory) that we were able to actually ship a full-chromium cover. That was a wraparound.

Others followed.

Best,
KV

Hey, Bart!

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:22 am

Glad you guys liked the X-O stuff. I was always under the impression that the core Valiant fans didn't like my stuff...

Hey Kevin, it was good seeing you in san Diego... what was that three years ago???

Sears

COMICKINGS · Post by **COMICKINGS** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:23 am

Sears wrote:Glad you guys liked the X-O stuff. I was always under the impression that the core Valiant fans didn't like my stuff...

Sears

Man,what ever gave you that idea??You gave X-O a look that has never been done better!!

Byrneout · Post by **Byrneout** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:09 am

Mr. Sears, Mr. VanHook,

Just a moment to first state that we very much appreciate you taking the time to post here. I know it made my day to see those names in the left column.

That said, I will relay the fact that most professional wrestlers are closet comic books geeks.

I say this because when I first read this topic late last night, there were two other wrestlers/Valiant fans near my computer. When we saw the post, we immediatly reverted into full geek mode. So, there's a mental image for you - three wrestlers jumping up and down because Bart Sears was talking X-O and Turok.

David_Cody · Post by **David_Cody** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:19 am

WHAT? Are you kiddin' me?! X-O 14 was my very first Valiant comic I ever purchased.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:17 am

Sears wrote:Glad you guys liked the X-O stuff. I was always under the impression that the core Valiant fans didn't like my stuff...

Sears

It's too bad you could not have come here a lot sooner. We would have gladly put that myth to rest for you. Nice to see you back BTW.

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:19 am

Morning,

Wow... three pro wrestlers jumping excitedly up and down, all over a posting on a web-site - sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit. Seriously, thanks. Glad you three, and the rest of you here, liked my X-O work. Hype has often been used in advertising a book..."the comic I was meant to draw..." etc. but I did have an affinity for X-O that I felt always showed in the work.

Just happy you guys liked it.

Thanks,

Bart

VanHook · Post by **VanHook** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:16 pm

Hey, gang--
Great to see the wrestler/comic fans (of course, I used to be a big wrestling fan...imagine that!) I designed trading cards for WWF about 5 years ago, for instance....

Anyway, Bart, how could you possibly think that Valiant fans weren't into your art? You drove the sales forever!

That Turok appearance in XO kicked off a wave of success fo the company.

So, Duh. (in a good way).

Yep, about three years ago at SD Con...Maybe two years. Time flies.

If I could draw a tenth as well as you do, I'd have stayed in the business!

All my best,
KV

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:34 am

wish I was around to read this stuff when it was happening, glad its still here, big ups to Greg.

Crow331 · Post by **Crow331** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:22 pm

Yeah bummer! I wish the link still worked! Does anyone have the art that they can post?

I was a HUGE fan of Bart's work on X-O

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