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Cool. Wasn't The Boon also the name of the plant that made the Anni-Padda immortal in VH 2? Shooter had an idea for how he was going to link the origin of the immortals and Harbingers after Unity. I think that's in the solicits for those issues found on the main site. Sorry, my knowledge of VH2 era...

I believe that The Boon served a similar, if more limited form of origin for the VEI universe that has similarities to the Seleski origin of VH1. I haven’t read those early Archer & Armstrong issues in quite some time, but to my vague recollection the 3 Anni-Padda brothers all gained their powe...

The way I'd like to see it done is keeping the VEI iterations of the characters and continuity but infusing it with the tone and character arcs of VH 1, such as, for instance, Archer starting his journey to become a spiritual leader, something not present in either the VH 2 or VH 1 versions, and Ja...

Well that is super strange. I was trying to reply to a post in here but I keep getting an internal server error every time I tried - until I did that ‘test’ post above. If the post already had 5 quotes inside it, there might be a limit on quoting something that's already quoted so many times. ok th...

Whenever I copy and paste the response I had typed out for a new post, I get the error above. If I don’t try to paste it, my posts are coming through

Well that is super strange. I was trying to reply to a post in here but I keep getting an internal server error every time I tried - until I did that ‘test’ post above.

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GammaJosh wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:11:36 pm They have Germane Peralta. I thought he did a fantastic job on Marvel's Maestro mini-series. I'd be excited to see him on a Valiant series.

+1 - totally agree.

Maestro was a great series of mini-series

^also, when I say likeness rights above for posters - I mean that those rights often need to be secured separately for nearly every single famous person in the movie. And even if you have those rights - you still have to run your final art by their reps for every single one of them individually to ...

That sucks. There was no need to contradict anything. What did they contradict? I haven't read a lot of them and I'm far from an expert on VEI continuity, hopefully others will chime in and correct me if I'm wrong. I did read the first Bloodshot: Rising Spirit in 2018 and it seemed like a complete ...

ManofTheAtom wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:39:09 am

Sunlight on Snow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:04:02 am Greg Rucka

Interesting. I think he should at least write Ninjak or Bloodshot.

Interesting choice. I am a big fan of his writing - Lazarus is in my all-time top 3-5 favourite comic series. It is, in some regards, his own brand of a character in the vein of Bloodshot.

The boards are dead because the dream died again. VALIANT is cursed by bad actors with $ Exactly. If the question is why aren't more people visiting, the answer is because nothing is happening. People wonder how many more times this thing can be resurrected. It's hard to be excited about something ...

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...

^also, when I say likeness rights above for posters - I mean that those rights often need to be secured separately for nearly every single famous person in the movie. And even if you have those rights - you still have to run your final art by their reps for every single one of them individually to g...

And just to pull another detail from my wife’s experience as a pro illustrator into this discussion - there are times when she is hired to create new posters and/or dvd package art for classic movies. For the posters specifically, it can be a nightmare to land a project if all the licensing isn’t se...

Another late response here (I’m working on reading “new” posts all the way down to page 3 as I’ve been away for a bit)… Inspired to respond *almost entirely* because Greg mentioned my absolute favourite (& often unfairly maligned) shared universe - the Marvel New U!! :lol: I have a few thoughts...

Oh sweet - even more discussion on the New U, since I last checked in :D It really was an idea ahead of its time and was Jim’s precursor test-pilot for many elements that he perfected with Valiant. Not all of it worked, not all of it was great, but when it did what Jim intended it was fantastic. It ...

Also - apologies if some of what I said has already been discussed to death elsewhere already! As I said, I’m working on reading “old” posts on page three that are *new* to me, haha!

Another late response here (I’m working on reading “new” posts all the way down to page 3 as I’ve been away for a bit)… Inspired to respond *almost entirely* because Greg mentioned my absolute favourite (& often unfairly maligned) shared universe - the Marvel New U!! :lol: I have a few thoughts ...

absolutely will get there, it will just take a min to get it all started. I don't think anyone wants to just rush out content for the sake of filling shelves. it's gotta be good. I've been always saying the same stuff as you guys and want the same things as a fan. it kept me here long enough fighti...

But as an addendum to the above post - there are other bright spots of good stuff that have me enthused. The two things I am most excited about currently are the image series w0rld tr33 as I mentioned in a previous post, and - surprisingly - the new “Energon Universe”/Transformers launch under Kirkm...

I would love to be captivated by a comic again........ I still feel a similar fatigue for new comics in general but there have been a few bright spots that have started rejuvenating my interest lately… The once-again recently relaunched Incredible Hulk has actually hooked me in again - the return t...

Just read the first hard back of something is killing the children I loved the story. Artwork was meh I still haven’t checked out that series but I’ve become a big fan of Tynions stories lately. He really fleshes out very believable human characters with substance to their personalities even if the...

I mostly have been reading Shadowman, Deadworld, Cerebus, and Batman One of my favourite claims to fame is my appearance as a zombie in issue #6 of the image-era Deadworld series (c2005?) - I’m the poor guy who gets his dead head lopped off by The Dead Killer! It’s not just my likeness either - it’...

Junkyard Joe was a good read. I picked that up but haven’t read it yet - looking forward to it though! What did you think? Still haven’t read it yet - my copy got misplaced in my basement last month while I was working on purging out a lot of (non-collectibles) clutter. Still haven’t found it, but ...