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by SwiftMann
Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:02:32 am
Forum: Dead Universes - Issue Lists
Topic: Crossgen - Issue List
Replies: 231
Views: 81670

Re: Crossgen - Issue List

Preordered it. Just a collection of the original #1s. Assumed to be an IP copyright continuation play more than a sign that there will be more original content.
by SwiftMann
Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:21:27 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: ETERNAL WARRIOR: SCORCHED EARTH
Replies: 249
Views: 17183

Re: ETERNAL WARRIOR: SCORCHED EARTH

syzhang28 wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 11:18:06 am Surely kickstarter will get involved right?
Absolutely not. That is the risk of all crowd funding and Kickstarter has a million and one disclaimers to that point. It was always a risk.
by SwiftMann
Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:23:08 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: ETERNAL WARRIOR: SCORCHED EARTH
Replies: 249
Views: 17183

Re: ETERNAL WARRIOR: SCORCHED EARTH

The money is there to fund it already… The money WAS there. It all comes down to whether they set it aside to facilitate the creation and shipping* of this KS or did they turn it into a Ponzi scheme (intentionally or not) to cover some of the costs of the past year. Whether it ends up good or not, ...
by SwiftMann
Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:17:41 pm
Forum: Professionally Graded Comics (CGC and CBCS)
Topic: Daredevil #1 Need Help Evaluating
Replies: 9
Views: 1270

Re: Daredevil #1 Need Help Evaluating

Based on the sales linked for what seem like lower grade books than this one, yes, they will net well over $1750 if they find a buyer. They always would if they bothered to do all of this.

If they wanted to sell it as is, no, they weren't going to do better.
by SwiftMann
Sat Aug 06, 2022 6:37:08 pm
Forum: Professionally Graded Comics (CGC and CBCS)
Topic: Daredevil #1 Need Help Evaluating
Replies: 9
Views: 1270

Re: Daredevil #1 Need Help Evaluating

I love all these people who come to my shop saying "if you get it graded it's worth X." Yeah, but it's not and we don't know the grade and it's going to take a long time to get it back from grading, so unless you are willing to do that I'm not getting that. Even if it was graded, we aren't...
by SwiftMann
Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:20:17 pm
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Book of Shadows #1
Replies: 8
Views: 1210

Re: Book of Shadows #1

Isn't this Persephone somehow the result of Deadside gets (stupidly) personified from the last Shadowman run? As for this issue, so many problems. First is I'm not in for Bunn. That's my problem. The rest is on the book itself. The inside cover intros are reused word for word halfway through the boo...
by SwiftMann
Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:16:37 pm
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Armorclads #5 (2022)
Replies: 1
Views: 516

Re: Armorclads #5 (2022)

The "decent movie sequence" of last issue turns into Matrix Revolutions when the machines invade Zion. For several pages. And then everything just ends with no real resolution or reasoning for this series to exist. They throw in an "after credits" type of sequence to tease a larg...
by SwiftMann
Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:16:10 pm
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Armorclads #4
Replies: 3
Views: 736

Re: Armorclads #4

Probably would make for a decent movie sequence (which this entire series seems to have been made for anyway), but the artist isn't quite up to snuff to make it work in comics.
by SwiftMann
Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:00:22 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Layoffs & Resignations Leave VALIANT’s Future in Doubt
Replies: 21
Views: 1652

Re: Layoffs & Resignations Leave VALIANT’s Future in Doubt

It's genuinely amazing they were able to publish the little they did post-pencils down. It was mostly terrible, but they still scraped together enough for a while. The article doesn't mention any creatives specifically. Be interesting to know if Bunn or Cloonan or Parker have posted anything publicl...
by SwiftMann
Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:58:09 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: ETERNAL WARRIOR: SCORCHED EARTH
Replies: 249
Views: 17183

Re: ETERNAL WARRIOR: SCORCHED EARTH

I was highly skeptical of the timeline and their ability to handle the logistics, but I backed anyway.

I would imagine this KS gets added to the two other comics KSs that didn't deliver (still looking at you Liefeld).
by SwiftMann
Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:48:10 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: DMG & Valiant scammed NFT investors
Replies: 5
Views: 874

Re: DMG & Valiant scammed NFT investors

Do they need some jpgs to calm them down.

I mean... NFT and scam go hand in hand. Even when something is delivered.
by SwiftMann
Thu Jun 16, 2022 7:43:23 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: VALIANT(DMG) APRIL 2022 SALES CHART!
Replies: 28
Views: 2635

Re: VALIANT(DMG) APRIL 2022 SALES CHART!

Red line is when it was announced DMG had taken full control. Caveat/Disclaimer: The numbers here are intended to show the long-term patterns over time. The numbers can't be perfect as they do not include reorders and then there's your standard icv2 and comichron do they best they can but are always...
by SwiftMann
Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:50:05 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: VALIANT(DMG) APRIL 2022 SALES CHART!
Replies: 28
Views: 2635

Re: VALIANT(DMG) APRIL 2022 SALES CHART!

How often was Shadowman a bigger title than Harbinger? In the VEI era, they've been pretty much the same (give or take a few hundred copies). 2013 - Both were in the 10-12k range (decreasing from 12k to 10k as the year went on). 2014 - By 2014 they were both in the 7800 range. And while there are n...
by SwiftMann
Sat May 28, 2022 4:24:59 pm
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Armorclads #3
Replies: 5
Views: 701

Re: Armorclads #3

Oh I couldn't tell you a name or codename for any character in this book. But I couldn't do that for other new world books like New Masters or We Live either. I'm just getting old that way. And to be fair, the genericness of it all is on par with the books I mentioned but this is definitely better t...
by SwiftMann
Sat May 28, 2022 9:11:31 am
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Armorclads #3
Replies: 5
Views: 701

Re: Armorclads #3

Yeah, this is just a big barrel of trading-water-fine.

It's really so much what's the point? Right in line with Armorines or Secret Weapons (the new team) or HARDCorps or Psi-Lords. Just a cast of interchangeable nobodies in similar outfits. But now we have our journey quest, I guess.
by SwiftMann
Fri May 27, 2022 1:23:44 pm
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: The Harbinger #8
Replies: 5
Views: 1039

Re: The Harbinger #8

Joe is the Renegade* post psychic neutering. You can tell by the evil eye scar.

*You know, the big bad of the series they did a *SQUEE* job of explaining anything about other than evil doppleganger generalization tropes.
by SwiftMann
Thu May 26, 2022 8:58:28 am
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: The Harbinger #8
Replies: 5
Views: 1039

The Harbinger #8

And we wrap it up by reverting back to the absolutely unbearable, underskilled writing of issues 3-5. The navel-gazing, emo, teenage YouTube singers my 9 year old listens to have more sincere content than these two writers. Seriously, just babbling b.s. "A swirl of pain and tragedy, blackness i...
by SwiftMann
Wed May 18, 2022 9:05:41 am
Forum: Re-Reading The 1990s VALIANT Universe
Topic: Post-Unity Solar, anything worth reading?
Replies: 23
Views: 2442

Re: Post-Unity Solar, anything worth reading?

Solar, Man of the Atom #46-60 – Jurgens’ take on Solar (including a five issue run that writes a whole new world) is ambitious and probably looked a bit better on paper than the final versions. They feel very cartoony or cheesy in the Valiant Universe. I enjoyed Bedard’s follow-up on the title quit...
by SwiftMann
Tue May 17, 2022 2:53:04 pm
Forum: Re-Reading The 1990s VALIANT Universe
Topic: Post-Unity Solar, anything worth reading?
Replies: 23
Views: 2442

Re: Post-Unity Solar, anything worth reading?

Looking at my comments from a few years back (all int the Re-Reading forum), I enjoyed Solar a lot through #24 and generally up to Chaos Effect. Everything after (like most titles) was skipable.
by SwiftMann
Mon May 16, 2022 9:30:12 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Bloodshot Series
Replies: 55
Views: 4199

Re: Bloodshot Series

VH 2 Bloodshot was probably the best VH 2 series. Wow. Could not disagree more. It was down there with Ninjak and Eternal Warriors as the worst VH2 series for me. What were your favorites? Q&W, Shadowman? I'm blanking, it's been forever since I read those. I did like Ninjak at the time. Not bec...
by SwiftMann
Mon May 16, 2022 9:26:52 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Bloodshot Series
Replies: 55
Views: 4199

Re: Bloodshot Series

VH 2 Bloodshot was probably the best VH 2 series. Wow. Could not disagree more. It was down there with Ninjak and Eternal Warriors as the worst VH2 series for me. How come? What I like is that it could have built up from where the original left off, with the "reveal" that Angelo Mortalli ...
by SwiftMann
Sat May 14, 2022 5:25:36 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Bloodshot Series
Replies: 55
Views: 4199

Re: Bloodshot Series

Man-of-The-Atom wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 8:20:32 pmVH 2 Bloodshot was probably the best VH 2 series.
Wow. Could not disagree more. It was down there with Ninjak and Eternal Warriors as the worst VH2 series for me.
by SwiftMann
Mon May 09, 2022 10:29:58 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Second Life of Valiant Comics? - An Article
Replies: 55
Views: 17755

Re: Second Life of Valiant Comics? - An Article

Not only for VEI, but the problem with fandom in general. "This isn't what I thought it should be" or "I've made up my own head canon for this property and this is teh suck compared to that!"
by SwiftMann
Fri May 06, 2022 11:00:50 pm
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Year of Valiant FCBD 2022
Replies: 3
Views: 747

Year of Valiant FCBD 2022

Bloodshot - I was rolling my eyes at the writing and art before the end of the first page. It got worse as it went. I loathed this. Armorclads - Preview of #1 from, what, six weeks ago? X-O - Centerfold with art by Pete Woods, so, you know, not at all representative of the book that will be coming. ...
by SwiftMann
Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:16:40 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: *Counterfeit Valiant Update- Midnight, On Earth w/ Jim Shooter Ep 89 - NEW EPISODE
Replies: 184
Views: 14667

Re: *Counterfeit Valiant Update- Midnight, On Earth w/ Jim Shooter Ep 89 - NEW EPISODE

well again the facts are showing there are counterfeits out there.. seriously does anyone know how to get ahold of jon hartz? Over two days later and this post still amuses and confuses me. Literally zero FACTS have been presented by anyone in this entire discussion that has now gone on for months....