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[k_c_collectibles]

Damn - that would be SWEET! I don't think my girlfriend Kristi would like it much though...

Seems like it might be worth it to find out.

What would your wife do if you had a delivery of that nature?

Chris

[dellamorte]

Greg said I'm a winner too but I'm not on the AICN page.

[ManofTheAtom]

Greg said I'm a winner too but I'm not on the AICN page.

I'm gonna guess that at least 10 of the 15 winners came from the board, heh.

[greg]

Greg said I'm a winner too but I'm not on the AICN page.

The winners that were missing the addresses weren't reported (yet).

[dellamorte]

Greg said I'm a winner too but I'm not on the AICN page.

The winners that were missing the addresses weren't reported (yet).

Any word on who won the signed or remarked books?

[Elveen]

Greg said I'm a winner too but I'm not on the AICN page.

I'm gonna guess that at least 10 of the 15 winners came from the board, heh.

I think that Greg told me that 5 of us were chosen.

[ManofTheAtom]

I think that Greg told me that 5 of us were chosen.

1.-

Ok, this is what I sent.

Ivar The Timewalker

(original concept summary from the VALIANT Reader, 1993).

Ivar, the Timewalker, has experienced the passage of thousands of years, just like his immortal brothers, Gilad and Aram. Unlike them, or anyone else, Ivar has spent his years skipping around from one point in history to the next. Able to find natural "time-arcs" that carry him from era to era, Ivar might be in the present one week, and in the 41st-Century North Am the next. This gets to be tricky for Ivar, who must take care to do nothing that could change history--even though this pledge of non-interference often leads to some difficult choices. But his time jumps aren't motivated by curiosity or adventure; Ivar only hopes that the next arc will place him back in the arms of his one, great love--lost in another time.

Original revamp idea by Michael Sacal (a new direction for the original concept).

"Through the Looking Glass"

Wrapped in his own concerns, Ivar finds himself in Muskogee, OK on the fateful night that Phil Seleski jumped into the nuclear reactor that transformed him into Solar, the Man of the Atom. Unaware of his fellow hero's origin, Ivar stops Phil from jumping into the furnace, inadvertingly preventing his transformation. Stopping the meltdown using future-tech at his disposal, Ivar departs through a time arc unaware that Erica Pierce was present in the room with them and has been changed by the out-of-control radiation from Seleski's "wish machine" into Mothergod, the Woman of the Atom.

Exiting the time arc exactly a year later, Ivar discovers that the world is now ruled by MotherGod, who from her Rainbow Tower oversees a valiant new world.

His time tracker destroyed, Ivar is captured and forced to fight for his survival in MotherGod's arena. Rescued by Rebecca Simms, aka Doctor Tomorrow, an agent of the time enforcement agency known as the Time Vaulters, a group charged with keeping the integrity of the timeline, Ivar must navigate through a world populated with familiar faces in extremely different roles in search of a way to put right what he made wrong.

Working together, Ivar manages to return to the point of divergence (Muskogee, OK), while Rebecca uses Time Vaulter technology to fulfill a long-standing temporal hole in VALIANT history.

Believing that the meltdown at the Edgewater plant will kill the people of Muskogee, Ivar is forced to choose between their safety and letting the world fall under MotherGod's rule. In the end he makes the right choice and lets Phil leap into the furnace to save the world, and as the timeline is repaired and Ivar leaps into a time arc, Rebecca's device diverts the necromantic energy created as a result of the "death" of the alternative timeline into it, thus leading Ivar into the opening page of Chaos Effect Alpha and the deluge of necromantic energy into the world.

2.-

here is what I sent in.......



Good day,

This is how I would re-introduce Galad Anni-Padda, the Eternal Warrior. I would start by going backwards. I would show various "key" events in history that have come to pass because of Gilly. (I always liked the flash back scenes in the first few pages of EW, so this is a process already set up in the Valiant Universe, and the true Valiant fans are going to want the foundation of the New Valiant Universe to incorporate the old Val. Uni.) The specific historical events used are not important, but here is the main thing. Harbingers can be introduced as historical figures (thus laying the foundation for the "Harbingers" of the future: Sting, Harada, Flamingo, ect.) What if David's (David and Goliath) harbinger power was a type of super-vision, which allowed him to sling the stone right between Goliath's eyes. What if Hannibal's harbinger power was the ability to "communicate" with animals, and that is how he got the elephants to cross the Alps. What if Hitler's harbinger power was mind control, and that is how a no-name, short, ugly, man got so many people to follow him completly. What if Jack the Ripper's harbinger power was the ability to turn into a shadow, and that is why he was never caught.

You get the picture. This format could be used to introduce Gilly and who he is what he does (the Fist and Steel), and also make a link to the present, the Harbingers. Lastly, Harada and Sting's ancestors could be intorduced, and it could be shown that the harbinger power started in their family, slowly, but eventually building into the Omega Harbinger Power. A great story could be set in early Japan.

Queen Jingo, and her son, Ojin, sent military expedition to Korea. The legend goes, gentle winds and god-like fish are said to have helped their armada cross the sea to Korea, so that no oars had to be used. Then supposedly a tidal wave took the fleet inland. (I see a harbinger power here, possilbly weather control?) Ojin died in the year 310 BCE, when he was 110 years-old. After his death he was deified as Hachiman, the God of War. What if Harada's lineage could be traced back to Ojin, the God of War.

Thanks, hope you like it.

3.-

Here is my entry. Nothing stellar by any means, but I thought it up in about 10 minutes.

At the end of X-O Manowar #68 Aric learns that everything we think he has done has been a dream and that he is on the Spider Alien spaceship. I propose that this be used as the launching pad for a new X-O series.

Aric captures the X-O Manowar armor and escapes just like in issue #0. Then he can meet many of the same people he "dreamed" about. He will have a sense of deja-vu about his surroundings and the people he meets, but will still be a strong willed barbarian or "Conan in a can" as he was called back in the day.

I think the sense of stranger in a strange land is one of the things that initially drew me to the original series and I believe it will be important in the relaunch as well.

He can meet Ken, take over Orb Industries in pretty much the same fashion as before, but then the curve balls start flying! Breaking from previous continuity there would be no Unity saga (I don't know how Valiant Entertainment could pull it off without Solar in the Universe). Aric would become more agressive in his pursuit of the Spider Aliens on earth as he seeks revenge for their keeping him in captivity for all the years. He would not really care about the methods he uses to destroy them as the end justifies the means in his barbarian mind.

He would occasionally team up with the other Valiant heroes in efforts to destroy the aliens, but only when it suited him. He would be more of a loose cannon in the Valiant Universe hell bent on Spider Alien destruction. He would also gradually integrate into society and become a little less reckless and more concerned about the people around him than his own personal safety.

I could go on for a while with my ideas of what could be, but I think I have met the requirements for an entry into your contest

4.-

Ok I sent mine in, I really shouldn't do these things with the kids running around it knocks my concentration off but since it's sent I can't touch it up now. I was going to do one based on the Shadowman 4 scripts that I wrote but instead I went with Ninjak.

Picking up the existing continuity for the original series set in the current day. Over the course of several story arcs I would try to reconfigure the Ninjak character into less of a Batman clone and more his own man.

The first arc would is The Web. This would start with the status quo of Dr. Silk fighting the ravages of old age taking one last crack at his old enemy. The initial arc ends with Colin King having lost everything and killing Silk (returning the character to the heavily violent actions that dominated his early issues)

The second arc is Nomad as Colin roams the earth searching for a purpose. Colin dedicates his efforts to helping those abandoned by fate and overrun by the criminal element.

The third arc is Assassin as Colin finds his purpose. With the Corporate wars begun foreshadowing the Harbinger wars to come Colin makes a choice to commit a great good by assassinating Toyo Harada.

Arc four is Pawn. The assassination fails and Colin becomes a puppet of Toyo Harada used as a bodyguard and dispatcher of Toyo’s enemies.

5.-

X-0 Manowar Reboot

Background:

A command ship carrying Spider Alien champion Veesk is on route to a battle in the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Refueling with minerals found on the Earth’s moon, the ship hides on the far side. Veesk wanders out to investigate the planet in his X-0 armor during the down time. An intense solar flare, not predicted by the Spider Aliens, erupts as he was headed towards the Earth. It paralyzes Kiskerra, the armor bred specifically for Veesk, sending them both crashing to the Earth below. They fall from the sky and slam into Poland in the year 1939. Nazi spies report back to Hitler of the amazing find and its dead operator and the German leader drums up a false reason leading to the invasion of Poland to retrieve to armor.
Johann Standt, a dedicated Nazi and loyal party member, is given the armor at a secret Nazi science facility in Austria. With the X-0 armor and the super soldier inside, Axis forces attempt to conquer the world, but as history plays itself out, the Germans are eventually defeated. After the war, Standt and his armor are hunted, but he is able to evade the governments pursuing him.
Eventually he leaves the earth, exiling himself for seventy years.

Today:

Upon his arrival, he finds a different world and a Germany that shames its past.

Johann has arrived in modern times and has to convince the world (all the Valiant heroes and Villains) that the war was along time ago and he now fights to stop people who would repeat the past crimes the Nazi’s wrought upon the Earth. He is pursued by members of a secret Nazi revival organization that wants the armor to help bring the Fourth Reich to power. Mainstream Valiant heroes will want to know which side of history he is on and how he fits into modern society. Johann’s guilt of his war time activities help drive him to fight the evil that inhabits the Earth. When Johann’s life begins to settle, a Spider Alien command ship carrying a thousand Wolf-class champions from throughout the galaxy arrive to claim Veesk’s armor.

6.-

My idea revolves, not around re-introdcing the characters, but re-introducing the issue sequences.

I thought it might be fun to have Valiant begin publishing starting with issue numbers as if they had never stopped publishing.

Subsequently, Valiant would issue annuals for each year that they were not publishing, giving outlines (similar to Rai 0) for each of those years.

"Filler" issues for the unpublished years could come in 6 issue mini series (2 for each year, for each character)

Oh-oh.

Someone didn't make it....

[greg]

do you suppose it is too late to submit?

[ManofTheAtom]

Urgh.

Guess he didn't send it in after all.

[k_c_collectibles]

Has anyone received their copies yet? I haven't...

I am hoping to get a signed copy, but would be happy with a regular edition.

Chris

[ManofTheAtom]

Has anyone received their copies yet? I haven't...

I am hoping to get a signed copy, but would be happy with a regular edition.

Chris

Still waiting

[Elveen]

I "talked" to a person in the "know" and they told me that mine was shipped. This was middle of last week, (I think).

[dellamorte]

I got a message saying that mine was shipped out late last week. So with any luck we should all be getting them soon.

[dellamorte]

Cool beans. I got my HC from the contest today. Thanks to everyone involved.

[Elveen]

Cool beans. I got my HC from the contest today. Thanks to everyone involved.

Did not get mine today, but I am sure it is any day now.

Congrats again Della. Now give us some more Shadowman vol 4.

[ManofTheAtom]

[dellamorte]

Cool beans. I got my HC from the contest today. Thanks to everyone involved.

Did not get mine today, but I am sure it is any day now.

Congrats again Della. Now give us some more Shadowman vol 4.

Not gonna happen. Sorry. If you want a quick outline of where it was heading send me a pm and I'll give you as much as I know.

[Elveen]

Cool beans. I got my HC from the contest today. Thanks to everyone involved.

Did not get mine today, but I am sure it is any day now.

Congrats again Della. Now give us some more Shadowman vol 4.

Not gonna happen. Sorry. If you want a quick outline of where it was heading send me a pm and I'll give you as much as I know.

Too bad, I really liked what I read.

If not now, hopefully sometime. I can wait, I don't plan on going anywhere.

I understand that it is alot of work and time.

[Elveen]

....and I got my Harby HC today. Have not had time to read it yet, but I'm pumped to have it.

[ManofTheAtom]

[dellamorte]

Cool beans. I got my HC from the contest today. Thanks to everyone involved.

Did not get mine today, but I am sure it is any day now.

Congrats again Della. Now give us some more Shadowman vol 4.

Not gonna happen. Sorry. If you want a quick outline of where it was heading send me a pm and I'll give you as much as I know.

Too bad, I really liked what I read.

If not now, hopefully sometime. I can wait, I don't plan on going anywhere.

I understand that it is alot of work and time.

Thanks for the kind words. I had fun working on it but writing comics is a ton of work and I just don't have the time to do it for fun. Between work and family any extra time writing gets spent on something I hope may have a future.

[ManofTheAtom]

The hardcover from the AICN contest arrived today

[Elveen]

The hardcover from the AICN contest arrived today

Really, .... I have had mine for a bit. I guess shipping internaitonally takes a good bit longer.

[ManofTheAtom]

The hardcover from the AICN contest arrived today

Really, .... I have had mine for a bit. I guess shipping internaitonally takes a good bit longer.

It took three days shy of three weeks from when I was told it was coming, which is the standard time frame. That's how long it takes me to get a package from MailorderComics.

[Elveen]

The hardcover from the AICN contest arrived today

Really, .... I have had mine for a bit. I guess shipping internaitonally takes a good bit longer.

It took three days short of three weeks from when I was told it was coming, which is the standard time frame. That's how long it takes me to get a package from MailorderComics.

Well, I am glad you got it now.