Harbinger: The Beginning - initial details revealed! 5/24
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Re: Harbinger: The Beginning - EDIT - details revealed!
Any idea why they would do a re-coloring? Something production related?Ryan wrote:Yeah I love the coloring of the originals, hopefully it's more of a re-mastering than a re-coloring.jedimarley wrote:My only beef is that we lose JJ's coloring.
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Re: Harbinger: The Beginning - EDIT - details revealed!
Just guessing, but there is quite a difference between the color originals and the printed comics in terms of how vivid the colors are. Maybe the production requires better originals than can be extracted from the books. The inks however can be extracted and then recolored.ckb wrote:Any idea why they would do a re-coloring? Something production related?Ryan wrote:Yeah I love the coloring of the originals, hopefully it's more of a re-mastering than a re-coloring.jedimarley wrote:My only beef is that we lose JJ's coloring.
And I totally agree with Frank.
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Wasn't there a little back story of Harada on the coupons in the issues? (I distinctly remember seeing a Harada as a child in a boardroom.) Could Shooter be revisiting that or have dug up his old notes?Second_Death wrote: I wonder though, is this old material previously unreleased or is this a story conceived by Jim since his departure in 1992 just for this new release?If this is a story of recent origin, does this mean Jim is involved with VEI in its relaunch attempt?
Not that it really matters either way.
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thank the power of frenchnessgreg wrote:Looks like the "Monday surprise" was posted on the Previews website early this morning.
That's almost a week before the catalogs are in anyone's hands next Wednesday.
As it is now, the details are "leaked" early, but since they only posted on the Diamond
website early this morning, I'd say the fans are STILL the first to know.
We're the only guys who are already informed these first few hours...
(...though I would imagine the news will continue to travel fast!)
P.S. I did not know about the Shooter story for the Harada origin!
Bravo!
(I've also edited the first post...)
(or at least décalage horaire 
)Maybe we did not learn befoe everybody but at least we try not to be the last...news are being spread across boards like masterworks and such....
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Who is drawing it?mavros wrote:Wasn't there a little back story of Harada on the coupons in the issues? (I distinctly remember seeing a Harada as a child in a boardroom.) Could Shooter be revisiting that or have dug up his old notes?Second_Death wrote: I wonder though, is this old material previously unreleased or is this a story conceived by Jim since his departure in 1992 just for this new release?
Not that it really matters either way.
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why wouldn't lapham do it if he has the time...he did work for Big Jim at defiant too and I don't remember hearing that they parted on poor terms...maybe Dino and Jason have been talking to him...xodacia81 wrote:The perfect answer to who is illustrating it, unless it turns out to be just the cards and or script pages, is Lapham. I don't know if he would do it, however. If they have to get someone else, well, Shooter himself draws a little. Maybe he did the art. It won't be great, but it'll be serviceable.
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It is interesting that the artist wasn't mentioned.myron wrote:why wouldn't lapham do it if he has the time...he did work for Big Jim at defiant too and I don't remember hearing that they parted on poor terms...maybe Dino and Jason have been talking to him...xodacia81 wrote:The perfect answer to who is illustrating it, unless it turns out to be just the cards and or script pages, is Lapham. I don't know if he would do it, however. If they have to get someone else, well, Shooter himself draws a little. Maybe he did the art. It won't be great, but it'll be serviceable.
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well they certainly weren't mentioned alot in pre-unity house style...leonmallett wrote:It is interesting that the artist wasn't mentioned.myron wrote:why wouldn't lapham do it if he has the time...he did work for Big Jim at defiant too and I don't remember hearing that they parted on poor terms...maybe Dino and Jason have been talking to him...xodacia81 wrote:The perfect answer to who is illustrating it, unless it turns out to be just the cards and or script pages, is Lapham. I don't know if he would do it, however. If they have to get someone else, well, Shooter himself draws a little. Maybe he did the art. It won't be great, but it'll be serviceable.
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Lapham is writing books for DC and Marvel, as well as continuing Stray Bullets for El Capitan (although there hasn't been a new one for a while). So it's hard to say how much time he has, but it would be awesome to see him doing Valiant stuff again. Although his style has progressed a lot since the Valiant 'house style' days.myron wrote:why wouldn't lapham do it if he has the time...he did work for Big Jim at defiant too and I don't remember hearing that they parted on poor terms...maybe Dino and Jason have been talking to him...xodacia81 wrote:The perfect answer to who is illustrating it, unless it turns out to be just the cards and or script pages, is Lapham. I don't know if he would do it, however. If they have to get someone else, well, Shooter himself draws a little. Maybe he did the art. It won't be great, but it'll be serviceable.
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Thanks for posting those Dan, I knew you would come throughsonicdan wrote:
I saved these pix that were posted awhile back ago...
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It's hard to tell from the scans, but if I had to guess an artist I would say Paul Creddick (
) with Layton applying the inks. The boy genius taking over a company is an interesting story for Shooter to write since he was something of a boy genius himself and was top dog at Marvel at such a young age.-
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niiiiicccee...Ryan wrote:Thanks for posting those Dan, I knew you would come throughsonicdan wrote:
I saved these pix that were posted awhile back ago...
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It's hard to tell from the scans, but if I had to guess an artist I would say Paul Creddick (
...wasn't he drawing for DC at 13?http://comics.org/details.lasso?id=20149Ryan wrote:he was something of a boy genius himself
This and the following issues were his first published books. Shooter submitted scripts and detailed layouts to DC and they were so impressed they published them.
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