Valiant C2E2 Panel was tweeted live (TRANSCRIPT IN HERE)

[greg]

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Josh Johns (assistant editor) is tweeting live from the C2E2 Valiant Panel
also tweeting is Cody Walker of Popgun Chaos, tweets from both are blended below...

Newest tweets at the top (copied from the twitter link, read from the bottom up, oldest to newest):
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(5:15pm, panel ends)

"After you read X-O #1 then you won't be mad you paid $3.99." Fan says, "I will be." "You know what? Come up and I'll give you a few bucks"

"If we want to compete with @marvel and @DCComics then we have to have $3.99 books to keep afloat."

"It's a business. $3.99 is the only way we can afford to stay afloat as a business."

I wish everyone could see the first look at Zephyr from #Harbinger right now like everyone at the panel #geekingout @c2e2

"I look back to the books being made 20 years ago and they were $2.25, so when I compare, it's not that bad."

"Our cover price is $3.99" and a guy actually booed them. #really?

"Where do you guys stand on comic pricing? These days some comics are the price of a car payment" Wish my car payments were $3.99

"I turned in the script for issue #5 for X-O back in December. I recognize that I'm the head of manufacturing"

"I turned in the script for issue 5 last December, I know as the writer that it helps everyone when I am on time"- Venditti on scheduling

"How do you make sure books come out on time?"

X-O Manowar will be 40 pages when it comes out.

We can only survive, we will only survive, if we put out something great each and every issue" -Fred on #valiant quality

"there is so much good stuff being put out by so many people which is so great for the industry but it sets the bar so high..."

The emphasis on @ValiantComics isn't just to put out titles, but to put out well thought out and connected material.

"My goal as Ive said to the industry as I've said to my competitors...is that we will be #3 in the industry again" -Fred Pierce

"If we're the number 5 company, I won't be upset. If we're the number 3 company, I won't be surprised."

"how does the industry best absorb you, we decided one title per month was best for fans and retailers" -on the one #1 a month plan

"We're having a new title in May, June, July, a new one in August - no one has ever done that before"

"In order for a company to be relevant, we realized that it needed to have at least four titles."

"I feel like we have a good, strong list of characters that we want to develop."

"We have plenty of plans for A-list characters like Shadowman and Ninjak."

"we are blessed in a very deep bench we have a lot of quality characters" describing the future plans for characters, like #Rai #shadowman

"What about Shadowman? What version would you use?"

"Any chance of Quantum and Woody?" "Yes, there is a chance"

"We're forging our own identity and a new identity."

"Are there any talks with classic artists for covers?" "We've reached out to them and some have said yes and some no"

"what happens in book A will always affect book B...we are building towards something that a year from now will have massive effects"

"Crossovers?" "We are carefully placing things into books to where we want to be a year from now."

"This is like Marvel's Ultimate line. They are similar but different."

"How will Archer be a little different?" "He is exactly the same, but he will be introduced little different"

"the comic book industry is a precursor for what is going on in the world today."

"The original Harbinger didn't take off right away. The industry today is a central industry. The message will come forward"

"What plans do you have to increase the conversation of the themes and questions to be debated in Harbinger?"

"We want it to be a new universe first and then harken back."

"Planning on reprinting more hardcovers for old titles" "We plan on rolling some more out. The product will be out digitally"

"We want it to be a new universe first and then harken back."

"the one I am most excited about is harbinger I can not think of a better man do to it than Joshua Dysart" -fan on #Harbinger

"When is Eternal Warrior coming? And will others show up?" "Yes."

"The Eternal Warrior design was done by Lee Bermejo from @DCComics." characters will show up in the FCBD book

"What digital companies will you partner with?" "Look for an announcement in the coming weeks"

"Neal Adams will be joining us for a variant cover"

I still love the David Aja cover for Archer and Armstrong.

There will be several unique teasers in our FCBD book that will give major hints for characters in the future @c2e2 valiant panel live!

BIG Announcement!!! Warren reveals that the legendary Neal Adams will officially be doing a cover for ARCHER AND ARMSTRONG!!!!! #WOW @c2e2

"when I first came to my favorite book was #ArcherandArmstrong" exec editor Warren Simons on Archer and Armstrong

"it is like raiders of the lost ark mixed with a buddy comedy" - talking about archer and armstrong at the panel live

On to archer and Armstrong!!!!

The interior art by Manuel Garcia is siiiiiiiiiiick.

"Can we talk about why there are two artists on Bloodshot?" "No, we can not."

"Bloodshot's tag line is 'every mission is a suicide mission'"

Unveiling of the Pullbox variant cover and discussing how to bring back retailers who are skittish

Wow! Warren reveals the double page spread for bloodshot #1 intense!

On to bloodshot!!!!!! "I honestly can't reveal almost anything without spoiling it... Warren Simons on using two artists 4 #bloodshot!!!!

Talking about the Pullbox variant "we wanted the retailers to know that we are always behind them"

Talking about Harbinger which is out on June 6. Written by Joshua Dysart and art by Khari Evans.

"What's it like to be 18 years old in this media saturated environment and have powers like this?"

Harbinger #2 will feature a cover with a talking dog. How can you go wrong?

"The @ValiantComics from 20 years ago were about 20 years from now. We're looking to 20 years from now."

If you are joining in now this is assistant editor @JoshJohns16 live tweeting the 1st ever Valiant relaunch panel!!! @c2e2

"the teams we are building here, the books we are building here, we don't just want 2 replicate what we did 20 years ago"-modernizing Harbinger

On Harbinger: "I'm a little skittish about this book...This is going to be a very dangerous book it is going to do things you don't expect"

"At the time, it was something that Marvel and DC weren't doing. No fights on moon bases"

"harbinger was willing to do things that marvel and DC couldn't do" Dinesh on the original Harbinger run

"what is it that made harbinger such a special book?"

live panel! "let's move on to harbinger..." #worththewait

Venditti: "new powers for the suit new abilities" Simons "we wanted to stay true to the core of the character"

panel: an audible "ooooh" was heard when we revealed the finished double page spread from Cary Nord 4 XO Manowar #1

Hey fans it's your beloved assistant editor @JoshJohns16 live tweeting the first ever valiant panel!

Venditti on XO Manowar "I didn't want to fix what wasn't broken...what I wanted to do was update and modernize him for a new audience"

"we are gonna try crazy things, you're not gonna like all of them, but I guarantee you you will have never seen them before"

"One of the ways we knew the voice cover was a success was when we saw it was parodied on Youtube"

About the voice cover "Here is bringing the interactivity of the internet to print."

"the Visgoth sword is a metaphor for Aric's journey."

"How can you go wrong with a lightning sword?"

Cary has been knee deep in research to capture what it was like to be alive during the roman empire.

The main idea is to keep the core concept of @ValiantComics characters.

"reinventing the aliens so you can relate to them."

"Didn't want to change the core concept of X-O Manowar"

Cary Nord is a Valiant exclusive artist

(4:15pm, panel begins)

[MarrowMan]

"When is Eternal Warrior coming? And will others show up?" "Yes."

[BugsySig]

Gah! Following on Twitter makes me want to be in Chicago!!! I hope they post some of these images soon...concept art, interior pages, wraparound covers...I can't take the suspense

[xodacia81]

I think some people-like that one fan-are the kind that think being contrary for the sake of being contrary, is some sort of virtue. It's not. LOVE the news about NA, and I don't mind the price point one bit.

[MarrowMan]

I don't like too many spoilers, Ilike knowing when I'm supposed to know and not before. Call me weird.

[xodacia81]

I don't like too many spoilers, Ilike knowing when I'm supposed to know and not before. Call me weird.

You ARE weird, and that's not just because you're Canadian, although there IS that.

[MarrowMan]

lol.

why spoil everything to death? Doesn't that ruin it a little?

If you knew the ending to Dark Knight Rises, would you still go see it? Well maybe a bad example, I would still watch it, but it would be ruined.

[xodacia81]

lol.

why spoil everything to death? Doesn't that ruin it a little?

If you knew the ending to Dark Knight Rises, would you still go see it? Well maybe a bad example, I would still watch it, but it would be ruined.

Sure, I'd go. Unless of course I knew that he died at the end of Titanic, that Rosebud was a sled or that Vader was Luke's father. Then, I'd want to kick some *SQUEE*.

[MarrowMan]

lol.

why spoil everything to death? Doesn't that ruin it a little?

If you knew the ending to Dark Knight Rises, would you still go see it? Well maybe a bad example, I would still watch it, but it would be ruined.

Sure, I'd go. Unless of course I knew that he died at the end of Titanic, that Rosebud was a sled or that Vader was Luke's father. Then, I'd want to kick some *SQUEE*.

Good examples. The darth vader thing though, if you know any German or Dutch, is a dead givaway though, it literally means Dark Father.

[geocarr]

Thanks for this thread and posting all that Greg!

[Big Red]

"We have plenty of plans for A-list characters like Shadowman and Ninjak."

[MarrowMan]

"We have plenty of plans for A-list characters like Shadowman and Ninjak."

[arghh!]

Here are a few pictures that kind of turned out. I was using my iPhone so they aren't real good. The picture with Zephyr and Rai is in here but blurry. I took pictures of the bloodshot art pages (which were freaking sweet) but they just look like a blur.

[jmatt]

...and I don't mind the price point one bit.

Personally, I don't mind either if it goes toward delivering top notch material. My only concern is that could limit the audience for the titles.

[MarrowMan]

I wish everyone could see the first look at Zephyr from #Harbinger right now like everyone at the panel #geekingout @c2e2

@ValiantComics Oh, how I wish I could too. I just hope Faith won't be "reinvented" as a slim "supermodel" type.

@wafflejuice no chance.

[depluto]

"We have plenty of plans for A-list characters like Shadowman and Ninjak."

[FormerReader]

Lots of good nuggets there!

[Ryan]

"Crossovers?" "We are carefully placing things into books to where we want to be a year from now."

[jmatt]

"We have plenty of plans for A-list characters like Shadowman and Ninjak."

[Eternalwarrior68]

Of course valiant would be at c2e2 this year! I knew I should have gone. Announcements sounded cool though, looking forward to shadowman and EW

[SJS4]

Love the news about Gilad! Still hoping I can start buying new Eternal Warrior comics soon!

[kevinbastos]

I keep saying there is a REASON that Bloodshot has TWO artists.

WAY back to the Valiant Christmas card from last year, Valiant had Rai showing.

Perhaps Rai IS in our future. Nearer than we imagine.

[arghh!]

No Rai:(

Rai was in one of the images they put up during the slide show.

[sonicdan]

The David Aja Rai image was shown on the tv slide show at the booth....
along with the words "Spring 2013"
DAN

[FormerReader]

The David Aja Rai image was shown on the tv slide show at the booth....
along with the words "Spring 2013"
DAN