Is VEI dead or dying?

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:14 am

It's a nice little convo, filled with rhetoric and wishful thinking but it still says nothing about VEI's intention.

Shooter is more than a comic book guy, he's a name in the media business. Whether that media be monthy pamphlets advertising towards movies, tv, whatever.

In the next couple years VEI will be forced to publish something again, to keep their TM (or copyrights, I constantly forget which is which) active. Just as Marvel had to do every 5 years or so with Captain Marvel, even though the title sold like *SQUEE*.

so in awhile they will start to ramp some advertising up, get us amped up for "new" material and it will either be something ongoing or it will be something to keep their claim active.

Time tells all truths. I'm going to be on the sideline until I see some sustained activity.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:59 am

Cheers for posting that. Who fancies a little wager that we will/won't see any comics before 2012

(I wish there was a pot stirring emoticon).

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:40 am

Draco wrote:
jedimarley wrote:I see Mike removed/deleted my facebook posts.
I dont recall you posting on that thread dude, you sure it was that one?

They were removed. Nothing more to say.

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:42 am

The fact is that VEI need look no further than themselves for any groundswell of negativity. A lot of people showed good faith in them in buying hardcover collections of material that most of them probbaly had already - have VEI repaid that faith through their actions?

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:54 am

jedimarley wrote:
The fact is that VEI need look no further than themselves for any groundswell of negativity. A lot of people showed good faith in them in buying hardcover collections of material that most of them probbaly had already - have VEI repaid that faith through their actions?

I recognise that comment.

And I stand by it.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Thu May 19, 2011 10:30 am

jedimarley wrote:
Draco wrote:
jedimarley wrote:I see Mike removed/deleted my facebook posts.
I dont recall you posting on that thread dude, you sure it was that one?

They were removed. Nothing more to say.

Right, Mike must have done so pretty quick.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Thu May 19, 2011 1:36 pm

Mike certainly does know some stuff most don't about VEI, but he certainly isn't certain about any information on their plans to release anything.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:03 pm

I don't even question it anymore. I am letting VEI make an announcement be a true surprise.

-slym

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:01 am

Their website has been updated. I don't see links to the other content anymore though.

NapoleonBlownapart noticed the VEI webiste update and posted a thread about it on the DK board.

http://www.valiantentertainment.com/

Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:11 am

iggy101us wrote:Their website has been updated. I don't see links to the other content anymore though.

NapoleonBlownapart noticed the VEI webiste update and posted a thread about it on the DK board.

http://www.valiantentertainment.com/

Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Not so much updated as there is just a front-page and no access elsewhere right now?

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:35 am

leonmallett wrote:
iggy101us wrote:Their website has been updated. I don't see links to the other content anymore though.

NapoleonBlownapart noticed the VEI webiste update and posted a thread about it on the DK board.

http://www.valiantentertainment.com/

Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.
Not so much updated as there is just a front-page and no access elsewhere right now?

Honestly, I think I prefer it this way. At least with the new front page there is some for of life without the false promises of HCs that will never come topped with failed movie attempts. I look at it as a fresh start, and a hope of things to come.

Blood of Heroes · Post by **Blood of Heroes** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:39 am

iggy101us wrote:
Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Looks like Bloodshot to me...

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Sat May 28, 2011 11:42 am

Blood of Heroes wrote:
iggy101us wrote:
Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Looks like Bloodshot to me...

Was it the gun?

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Sat May 28, 2011 12:04 pm

Blood of Heroes wrote:
iggy101us wrote:
Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Looks like Bloodshot to me...

Yep. Btw, there is text that becomes visible only by marking it.

/Magnus

jridd28 · Post by **jridd28** » Sat May 28, 2011 12:09 pm

Also, at the bottom right it says "Nanites at Work"!

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Sat May 28, 2011 12:15 pm

So there really is a Bloodshot movie in the works?

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Sat May 28, 2011 1:39 pm

iggy101us wrote:So there really is a Bloodshot movie in the works?

I don't think a changed front page is proof/evidence that a movie is moving ahead. That is not to say that it isn't happening, just that this page means nothing in that regard.

Imdb lists a movie titled "Bloodshot" for 2013, but that is no guarantee (does any willing board memeber have full imdb access to gather more info BTW?).

BruceReville · Post by **BruceReville** » Sat May 28, 2011 1:52 pm

leonmallett wrote:
iggy101us wrote:So there really is a Bloodshot movie in the works?
I don't think a changed front page is proof/evidence that a movie is moving ahead. That is not to say that it isn't happening, just that this page means nothing in that regard.

Imdb lists a movie titled "Bloodshot" for 2013, but that is no guarantee (does any willing board memeber have full imdb access to gather more info BTW?).

Harbinger movie had a director announced in 2008 and had a Paramount push but what has come of that? Nada - so until I see something more than an off-handed remark from Matthew Vaughn I wouldn't hold my breath.

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Sat May 28, 2011 2:41 pm

leonmallett wrote:
iggy101us wrote:So there really is a Bloodshot movie in the works?
I don't think a changed front page is proof/evidence that a movie is moving ahead. That is not to say that it isn't happening, just that this page means nothing in that regard.

Imdb lists a movie titled "Bloodshot" for 2013, but that is no guarantee (does any willing board memeber have full imdb access to gather more info BTW?).

IMDB is updated by its users, like wikipedia (I think..correct me if I am wrong) so its information is often conjecture and rumour mongering.

Updating a webpage is *SQUEE* simple. hell if I were in charge of said company I would be paying somebody to at least update the content on the webpage every week. I don't care with what, anything. I'd learn the html and do it myself, though buying a program that makes it *SQUEE* easy is a business expense anyways.

my ex-wife used to like to spend money, getting into new hobbies all the time to leave them half done. I can't tell you how many half finished "projects" of hers I have found cleaning out this place after she left.

This smells like that to me. Apologies for the negativity.

caxiotis · Post by **caxiotis** » Sat May 28, 2011 3:04 pm

Have you guys checked out their website today? They took their site down and there is just a new imAge of bloodshot?

Is this their movie announcement?

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Sun May 29, 2011 9:25 pm

magnusr wrote:
Blood of Heroes wrote:
iggy101us wrote:
Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Looks like Bloodshot to me...
Yep. Btw, there is text that becomes visible only by marking it.

/Magnus

Text?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun May 29, 2011 10:19 pm

etos45 wrote:
magnusr wrote:
Blood of Heroes wrote:
iggy101us wrote:
Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Looks like Bloodshot to me...
Yep. Btw, there is text that becomes visible only by marking it.

/Magnus
Text?

yardstick · Post by **yardstick** » Sun May 29, 2011 10:53 pm

Ryan wrote:
etos45 wrote:
magnusr wrote:
Blood of Heroes wrote:
iggy101us wrote:
Maybe it's the cover to Rai #00.

Looks like Bloodshot to me...
Yep. Btw, there is text that becomes visible only by marking it.

/Magnus
Text?
All content ™ and © 2011 Valiant Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of The Harbinger Foundation [hidden text]

Nice little easter egg there....

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:42 am

Is this all BS so the TM's don't lapse?

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:46 am

jedimarley wrote:Is this all BS so the TM's don't lapse?

Good point, and one I think you and I have considered in the past.

To maintain trademarks don't you have to actively use them? Would the partial site update count? The only viable vehicle I can see is some kind of VEI sampler one-shot incorporating pretty much everything, but I may well be wrong on all three counts.