Comics Bulletin Interview w/ Fred Pierce of Valiant Revival

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:00 pm

dino wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:Could be, but some of the ideas they came up with did work. I think it would be foolish to simply cast everything Acclaim did to the curb just because some of it was dreck.
Quoted for truth.

Yes! I liked quite a bit of Acclaim and believe there are several golden nuggets in many of those runs that could be useable to VEI. Again, I can't wait!

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:09 am

dino wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
yardstick wrote: I think this means that the acclaim versions of these characters are out.
Could be, but some of the ideas they came up with did work. I think it would be foolish to simply cast everything Acclaim did to the curb just because some of it was dreck.
Quoted for truth.

Quoted for dare.

Michael Woods · Post by **Michael Woods** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:20 am

greg wrote:
dino wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
yardstick wrote: I think this means that the acclaim versions of these characters are out.
Could be, but some of the ideas they came up with did work. I think it would be foolish to simply cast everything Acclaim did to the curb just because some of it was dreck.
Quoted for truth.
Quoted for dare.

This could get interesting.

cplsimon · Post by **cplsimon** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:34 am

I am glad they plan on including Rai . With Magnus and Solar out, the 4001 universe could suffer. I am most interested to see this title come to print. Also what direction Shadowman goes in. I want jack back, but a I liked both versions.

Heath · Post by **Heath** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:29 am

I wouldn't mind them incorporating the *new* concepts and characters that was part of Acclaim. Q&W jumps to mind, of course. But, for the characters that were revamped with Acclaim, I hope VEI sticks to the original Valiant versions. Especially Shadowman.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:03 am

I really like what I've read of Shadowman. I'm usually a character driven guy and I enjoyed Jack Boniface, but in this rare case, I think I enjoyed the Shadowman concept better. I mean they really didn't develop Jack. We know he played sax and not too much more.

If they wanted to stick to the rai 0 story and go with a different Shadowman, i would be good with that. They could even develop the character before he became Shadowman.

SJS4 · Post by **SJS4** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:44 am

geocarr wrote:
dino wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:Could be, but some of the ideas they came up with did work. I think it would be foolish to simply cast everything Acclaim did to the curb just because some of it was dreck.
Quoted for truth.
Yes! I liked quite a bit of Acclaim and believe there are several golden nuggets in many of those runs that could be useable to VEI. Again, I can't wait!

I bought all the "eternal warriors" issues, but overall I don't remember liking much of the "Acclaim" reboots. Which ones were good or worth reading? I just started re-reading my old valiant comics (still on the pre-unity stuff) but I might pick up some of the acclaim stuff if its cheap and entertaining.

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:48 am

SJS4 wrote:
geocarr wrote:
dino wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:Could be, but some of the ideas they came up with did work. I think it would be foolish to simply cast everything Acclaim did to the curb just because some of it was dreck.
Quoted for truth.
Yes! I liked quite a bit of Acclaim and believe there are several golden nuggets in many of those runs that could be useable to VEI. Again, I can't wait!
I bought all the "eternal warriors" issues, but overall I don't remember liking much of the "Acclaim" reboots. Which ones were good or worth reading? I just started re-reading my old valiant comics (still on the pre-unity stuff) but I might pick up some of the acclaim stuff if its cheap and entertaining.

I didn't like Acclaim Eternal Warriors that much either. I like Master Darque/Darque Passages, Deadside (too bad #4 was never published), Q&W, Shadowman V3, and Solar.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:56 am

iggy101us wrote:
SJS4 wrote:
geocarr wrote:
dino wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:Could be, but some of the ideas they came up with did work. I think it would be foolish to simply cast everything Acclaim did to the curb just because some of it was dreck.
Quoted for truth.
Yes! I liked quite a bit of Acclaim and believe there are several golden nuggets in many of those runs that could be useable to VEI. Again, I can't wait!
I bought all the "eternal warriors" issues, but overall I don't remember liking much of the "Acclaim" reboots. Which ones were good or worth reading? I just started re-reading my old valiant comics (still on the pre-unity stuff) but I might pick up some of the acclaim stuff if its cheap and entertaining.
I didn't like Acclaim Eternal Warriors that much either. I like Master Darque/Darque Passages, Deadside (too bad #4 was never published), Q&W, Shadowman V3, and Solar.

I thought the Acclaim Eternal Warriors premise was interesting, but I did not like the way Gilad was portrayed. He seemed more like villain than a hero.

dbngaa · Post by **dbngaa** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:48 am

Not to get TOO off-topic, but since Iggy mentioned the un-published Deadside #4 I was thinking...would VEI ever publish that issue (if it actually exists in some form), or any of the other un-published items that they might have in their possesion. I realize the market wuld be about 4 people, but I'd love to have some of those issues. Not high on their priority list I'm sure.

Michael Woods · Post by **Michael Woods** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:22 pm

dbngaa wrote:Not to get TOO off-topic, but since Iggy mentioned the un-published Deadside #4 I was thinking...would VEI ever publish that issue (if it actually exists in some form), or any of the other un-published items that they might have in their possesion. I realize the market wuld be about 4 people, but I'd love to have some of those issues. Not high on their priority list I'm sure.

Maybe in digital depending on how complete the issue is, but I would imagine if they were going to put anything in print, it would be the rest of the VH1 books and maybe a Q&W omnibus.