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Excellent pickups! I picked up one page (set of pencils & inks) from that series years ago as well - love Paulo & Joe Rivera’s work on it! There were more pages I wanted to get from the series but missed out on them.

Also agree Shadowman would be a great next movie with VH1 being the inspiration. Mutant X was fun. I'll take any superpowered shows - The Gifted, Alphas, etc. Sent from my Pixel Fold using Tapatalk JMS was working on a Shadowman script, but that clearly went nowhere. All the movies went nowhere whe...

I tend to think that an A&A tv show would be really awesome if it were more based on the tone and elegant comedy of the BWS era. I like the initial VEI series of A&A but it’s missing an element that BWS did much better. And subsequent outings of A&A since have suffered as further, paler ...

And I would also comment that many things in pop culture do not stand the test of time or age well… comics included. Times & tastes change (not always for the better, but not always for the worse either), and I think most examples of entertainment simply cement themselves in the era they were cr...

#RestoreTheShooterverse Hot take, it hasn't aged well. There are some great ideas but the execution feels even older than the 90s, you can feel the rush they were under too, and the sexual proclivities Shooter often includes in his stores are done in a way that we would no longer consider them appr...

Chiclo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:44:32 pm Fellas, hold on to those Sven first appearances.

lorddunlow wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:48:57 pm Let the hoarding begin!

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Did it ever stop?

I posted this on another topic, but it belongs here, too. Where did everyone go? Well... ... maybe they decided they were done because they wouldn't ever be done. So all who are left are the people that care about the stories while the collectors/investors raptured themselves? I don't think the few...

I’ve been noticing a hell of a lot of kids in all the cities around here seem to suddenly have all the same haircut… my wife describes it as a mushroom top - shaved sides that flare up to as much of a curly poof on top as they can manage to grow :lol: Broccoli head or broccoli cut is the most commo...

That’s a very interesting thought. If he had stayed at Valiant longer, he wouldn’t have had to suffer the diminishing returns of trying the same business model in subsequent companies. Could he have maintained the same momentum through more years with Valiant? Who can say… but we probably would hav...

I voted new blood - also with the hopeful caveat that whomever that is had some knowledge and or respect for the history of the characters too. Ideally I would have picked Dinesh to return, but since Alien is licensing the IP & DMG retains ownership I don’t think this scenario will happen. I’d h...

Just look at how much activity has occurred just best an old member returned and began a posting spree. I wasn't on here until 2010 and mostly lurked until the VEI relaunch. Definitely I came because of a love for Valiant, but I stayed and was very active because of the community, but it's that awk...

I should also say, in light of my two immediate posts above - that while I was fiercely loyal to Dinesh and co while they were still at Valiant, and felt like it was a great wrong that was done to him there… that loyalty did not entirely transfer over to Bad Idea. I am less invested in Bad Idea but ...

Yeah it didn't actually bother me, I think for the most part they were just excited like any fan would be. It's just that they all seemed to disappear which is too bad. So I've seen. What happened, though? Apathy toward VEI? DMG? Did they get bored of each other? Good questions. My theory is that t...

Every fanbase needs new fans coming in to survive. Where did all the VEI fans and nanny boo club go? Became Bad Idea fans and to twitter I guess. I think people should be free to express their true thoughts on a fan message board, as long as it doesn't devolve into personal or nasty attacks. Anyone...

Sunlight on Snow wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:34:25 pm Alien Books?!?

It sounds like a really really bad joke.

Unless they're actually Spider Alien Books!!!

Of course, that's just wishful thinking.

There’s a kernel of a good spoof idea in that, if it’s done right!

I’ve been noticing a hell of a lot of kids in all the cities around here seem to suddenly have all the same haircut… my wife describes it as a mushroom top - shaved sides that flare up to as much of a curly poof on top as they can manage to grow :lol: Broccoli head or broccoli cut is the most commo...

That's pretty much right. No one really knows how much of an effect DMG had on the final product. What's clear it that VEI had different plans. It was initially supposed to be $4, double-sized issues. The first half (by Kindt/Giorello) would be about the overall "war," and the big players...

Social media is like fad haircuts... everyone does the same thing for a while, then stops completely... with regret when they look back later. hairfads.jpg We're more like the "never goes out of style" basic cut around here. normalhair.jpg It's not going to win any popularity contests, bu...

I posted this on another topic, but it belongs here, too. Where did everyone go? Well... A collector of pre-Unity Valiant anytime between 1992 and 2011 would have meant building a collection of 60 books over 20 years. Throw in the Valiant variants, gold issues, and key first appearances and you'd s...

And taking that Divinity idea one step further in detail… while it’s more based on multiversal solutions, it would be possible to keep that minimal and achieve something close to what you are seeking out. What if he was essentially peering into the VH1 version of his reality, and could see that anot...

Just to be clear, I don't think the plot points or specific characters are as important as going back to the principles of Pre-Unity VALIANT storytelling (which would be a whole nother thread lol). Basically a grown-up version of 60s and 80s Marvel. Focus is on story and clear storytelling over fan...

Also, forums like this simply aren't really a thing anymore. Most people use social media. I think perhaps the combination of being in this unfortunately poor post-DMG takeover era in tandem with TheFerg’s point about social media apps over forum use are two of the biggest factors to explain the dr...

the sky is falling How is this bad news? DMG is still in charge. that's it. that equals bad news. They got rid of people who cared about building the IP in the medium it came from: comic books. Then they nearly stopped supporting the IP, and wondered why their IP wasn't making money like they wante...

I think I can speak for some of the old school/Shooterverse fans. The schism (hehe) that happened between VEI and Shooter that sent VEI into a reboot and Shooter to DH with the GK3 split some of the fans off as well. Not trying to re-litigate what happened, just stating the fact that certain type o...

This is a lot of discussion to take in and respond to, but I’ll try! :lol: Coming at this from the perspective of an old school VH1 fan who also really enjoyed a great deal of the Dinesh-era of VEI… I really think that trying to build anything around the Gold-Key properties again is an impossible dr...