Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
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Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
Not a lot of new info but some additional coverage of the present situation at Valiant.
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Re: Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
It's been time to pull the plug for a while now.
Hopefully the IP will wind up with someone (Dino ) who will relaunch it and treat it properly as opposed to languishing unused.
Hopefully the IP will wind up with someone (Dino ) who will relaunch it and treat it properly as opposed to languishing unused.
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Re: Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
Looks like they are trying to trickle out another X-O book.... saw the solicit for it on DCBS tonight.
What volume has X-O as a run been swiss cheesed into now?
I think the last Valiant anything I bought was the X-O trade that one of the guy's here solicited to the board - the one with the sidebar branding down the book. Haven't even read that one yet.
Many of the Valiant I.P.'s are great and story worthy, but the truth is that it's very hard to organically capture the feeling of what that first year of Valiant was and was doing in the 90's. The launch of a new title back then was a big deal and the build up once Unity was announced was the best marketing on the planet at the time. Back then the whole Unity thing felt so special as if we were all waiting ten years for a culminating Avengers Endgame but on the scale of High School and comic books.
What volume has X-O as a run been swiss cheesed into now?
I think the last Valiant anything I bought was the X-O trade that one of the guy's here solicited to the board - the one with the sidebar branding down the book. Haven't even read that one yet.
Many of the Valiant I.P.'s are great and story worthy, but the truth is that it's very hard to organically capture the feeling of what that first year of Valiant was and was doing in the 90's. The launch of a new title back then was a big deal and the build up once Unity was announced was the best marketing on the planet at the time. Back then the whole Unity thing felt so special as if we were all waiting ten years for a culminating Avengers Endgame but on the scale of High School and comic books.
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Re: Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
Actually, the new artist, Liam Sharp, is kind of world class. I genuinely can't believe Valiant can afford him.
Sidebar branding? Any other hints?I think the last Valiant anything I bought was the X-O trade that one of the guy's here solicited to the board - the one with the sidebar branding down the book. Haven't even read that one yet.
Honestly, VEI captured that feeling for several years, and one single year is nothing to write home about. Don't get me wrong, Pre-Unity is the real deal, but at the end of the day, it was just a year.Many of the Valiant I.P.'s are great and story worthy, but the truth is that it's very hard to organically capture the feeling of what that first year of Valiant was and was doing in the 90's. The launch of a new title back then was a big deal and the build up once Unity was announced was the best marketing on the planet at the time. Back then the whole Unity thing felt so special as if we were all waiting ten years for a culminating Avengers Endgame but on the scale of High School and comic books.
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Re: Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
The more I see Sharp’s art the more I agree! His Green Lantern stuff was incredibly detailed and he’s a genuine A lister.TheFerg714 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:39:31 pm Actually, the new artist, Liam Sharp, is kind of world class. I genuinely can't believe Valiant can afford him.
My only concern for the new XO is the Cloonan/Conrad writing, I haven’t read their stuff personally but not heard good things from reviewers.
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Re: Mass layoffs leave a skeleton crew at Valiant Entertainment
Haven't been on for a while. Look like I missed a lot . . . or maybe not much . . . still reading through the threads.