VALIANT November 2014 Solicitations
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So we get a new member of Unity and no harbinger in November. Though Faith does guest star in Unity.
But we do get...Punk Mambo #0?!? Not sure how I feel about that. I know many of us would like some background on the character, and I suppose this means she could play a larger role in the future.
Also some new covers we haven't seen before. A (well colored) Cary Nord EW: Days of Steel cover, A&A: The One Percent mask covers, and some nice Bloodshot variants for issue #25.
So we get a new member of Unity and no harbinger in November. Though Faith does guest star in Unity.
But we do get...Punk Mambo #0?!? Not sure how I feel about that. I know many of us would like some background on the character, and I suppose this means she could play a larger role in the future.
Also some new covers we haven't seen before. A (well colored) Cary Nord EW: Days of Steel cover, A&A: The One Percent mask covers, and some nice Bloodshot variants for issue #25.
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Yep ... definitely surprised not to see a Harbinger title this month - never expected a month off for Dysart. I'd have to expect something big from him in December.
The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
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Agreed, and hoping we might get some hint as to future Shadowman plans!bygranddesign wrote:The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
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I thought the same thing. I'm looking forward to a new character book. This will be the first wholly new property, right? I'll be skeptically optimistic about its success.Keith wrote:Agreed, and hoping we might get some hint as to future Shadowman plans!bygranddesign wrote:The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
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Bleeding Monk is completely new.nycjadie wrote:I thought the same thing. I'm looking forward to a new character book. This will be the first wholly new property, right? I'll be skeptically optimistic about its success.Keith wrote:Agreed, and hoping we might get some hint as to future Shadowman plans!bygranddesign wrote:The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
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I think its a one shot deal - like Bleeding Monk #0 and A&A: One Percent(both new properties that got their own book). So I don't think there is much risk involved.nycjadie wrote:I thought the same thing. I'm looking forward to a new character book. This will be the first wholly new property, right? I'll be skeptically optimistic about its success.Keith wrote:Agreed, and hoping we might get some hint as to future Shadowman plans!bygranddesign wrote:The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
I think they are just building up the foundation of these new characters in the hopes of creating a recognizable and successful property down the line. Same some sort of strategy with Gen Zero being the focus of Armor Hunters: Harbinger and putting Livewire in Unity (although she was an old Valiant character she is pretty much new as she has been completely re-imagined). Also building up a huge event around brand new characters (The Armor Hunters) - Another way of building up new properties that will hopefully pay off down the line..
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Maybe Dysart will have some time off because he has been putting out two books a month for quite some time now.bygranddesign wrote:Yep ... definitely surprised not to see a Harbinger title this month - never expected a month off for Dysart. I'd have to expect something big from him in December.
The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
Best news for me here is Clayton doing X-O. We have not seen that before. It also means that Clayton would most likely not be the artist for the next Dysart book. So, would it be Mico with Dysart?
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At the Supercon panel I went to ... it was mentioned that there would be a Livewire mini-series. Not sure how concrete that was .. but maybe Dysart will come back in December with both a New Harbinger title + a Livewire mini..
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Re: VALIANT November 2014 Solicitations
A lot of exciting stuff, x-o manowar bloodshot & unity sound awesome. But it looks like less and less ongoing very month and more mini series/ one shot. Would like for the ongoing books to stop going on hiatus and just add 2-3 books for the mini series a month come on the first 2yrs had one miniseries (harbinger war) now they're coming out of the woodwork sacrificing the ongoings.
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I believe it said Diego Bernard is the artist and there was an interview Venditti done about the armorines story arc which said Bernard was artist. So who knows?erwinrafael wrote:Maybe Dysart will have some time off because he has been putting out two books a month for quite some time now.bygranddesign wrote:Yep ... definitely surprised not to see a Harbinger title this month - never expected a month off for Dysart. I'd have to expect something big from him in December.
The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
Best news for me here is Clayton doing X-O. We have not seen that before. It also means that Clayton would most likely not be the artist for the next Dysart book. So, would it be Mico with Dysart?
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Yeah, Diego is the artist for XO still
Clayton is just doing the covers
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Clayton is just doing the covers
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Art by DIEGO BERNARD
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Mico did say he was working on something big for VEI. Anything that these 2 can do together will be awesome: I speculate a Monk mini on the way.erwinrafael wrote:Maybe Dysart will have some time off because he has been putting out two books a month for quite some time now.bygranddesign wrote:Yep ... definitely surprised not to see a Harbinger title this month - never expected a month off for Dysart. I'd have to expect something big from him in December.
The Punk Mambo is a nice surprise. I'm all for expanding the universe and putting a spotlight on a new character - so i'm pretty excited about this.
Best news for me here is Clayton doing X-O. We have not seen that before. It also means that Clayton would most likely not be the artist for the next Dysart book. So, would it be Mico with Dysart?
I'd personally love to see Clayton Henry doing at least one arc for each ip- his Shadowman sketch's still lingering in my mind...
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Awww, I misread it. would love for Clayton to have an arc for every core book.bygranddesign wrote:Yeah, Diego is the artist for XO still
Clayton is just doing the covers
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I thinl the series of minis are really just to solve the monthly attrition. It really is hard to revive the sales of an ongoing.p-s manowar wrote:A lot of exciting stuff, x-o manowar bloodshot & unity sound awesome. But it looks like less and less ongoing very month and more mini series/ one shot. Would like for the ongoing books to stop going on hiatus and just add 2-3 books for the mini series a month come on the first 2yrs had one miniseries (harbinger war) now they're coming out of the woodwork sacrificing the ongoings.
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besides armor hunters the other miniseries (shadowman end times, ah bloodshot ah harbinger) numbers seen low vs the ongoing title numbers. I don't mind the miniseries just not at the cost of the ongoings.erwinrafael wrote:I thinl the series of minis are really just to solve the monthly attrition. It really is hard to revive the sales of an ongoing.p-s manowar wrote:A lot of exciting stuff, x-o manowar bloodshot & unity sound awesome. But it looks like less and less ongoing very month and more mini series/ one shot. Would like for the ongoing books to stop going on hiatus and just add 2-3 books for the mini series a month come on the first 2yrs had one miniseries (harbinger war) now they're coming out of the woodwork sacrificing the ongoings.
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Re: VALIANT November 2014 Solicitations
That "Who will join Unity? cover is perhaps a little spoilerish for the remainder of Armor Hunters.
Also kinda reminds me of this Avengers cover:
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OT, but do you think Bendis just took a look at this cover when he revamped the Avengers and just said, "Okay, him, him him…"
Also kinda reminds me of this Avengers cover:
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OT, but do you think Bendis just took a look at this cover when he revamped the Avengers and just said, "Okay, him, him him…"
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If the Valiant editors are reading these posts - be aware that the Ninjak Bio has 2 sentences that repeat
Also, I find it curious that they would use Christian instead of Cronus on that Unity cover.
Also, I find it curious that they would use Christian instead of Cronus on that Unity cover.
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Christian is Cronusbygranddesign wrote:If the Valiant editors are reading these posts - be aware that the Ninjak Bio has 2 sentences that repeat
Also, I find it curious that they would use Christian instead of Cronus on that Unity cover.
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Damn, i love the Morrison Doom Patrol covers, hope its an homage:
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But if you look at it, only 3 of the 9 November titles are ongoing series. And one of those is confirmed as going on hiatus after this month since he'll be appearing in The Valiant (Bloodshot).erwinrafael wrote:I thinl the series of minis are really just to solve the monthly attrition. It really is hard to revive the sales of an ongoing.p-s manowar wrote:A lot of exciting stuff, x-o manowar bloodshot & unity sound awesome. But it looks like less and less ongoing very month and more mini series/ one shot. Would like for the ongoing books to stop going on hiatus and just add 2-3 books for the mini series a month come on the first 2yrs had one miniseries (harbinger war) now they're coming out of the woodwork sacrificing the ongoings.
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I would like to see more ongoings this month. My LCS mentioned a number of people have jumped off valiant in light of the emphasis on mini's seeing the hiatus of a number of ongoings as a good end point.
My pull list between Aug and Dec has dropped from 10 to 4 due to titles like Q&W, BS, Shadowman, Harbinger (thought there may be a Harby book in Dec) not being represented in monthly format – Armor Hunters resulted in a higher pull list for me this month.
That said, I love the idea of one-shots and mini's (a little contradictory, I know) - perhaps not in the high concentration that Valiant has them in at the moment...
Unity looks very cool – though I’m not sure why Bloodshot is on the cover of ‘who will join them?” – given he was part of the team during AH…looking at the standard cover, you’d have to say Faith is the new member, though surely Torque will join also? Doesn’t feel right not seeming them part of the same team now.
I’m undecided about Punk Mambo – I wanted to get all the Valiant 0’s so will likely add this though haven’t had all the much exposure to her (dropped Shadowman at 13x). This combined with the Dr. Mirage mini has me thinking there are some big plans for an expanded and more involved cast in Shadowman should the on-going resume in 2015 – fingers cross, this feels like solid groundwork for something special.
My pull list between Aug and Dec has dropped from 10 to 4 due to titles like Q&W, BS, Shadowman, Harbinger (thought there may be a Harby book in Dec) not being represented in monthly format – Armor Hunters resulted in a higher pull list for me this month.
That said, I love the idea of one-shots and mini's (a little contradictory, I know) - perhaps not in the high concentration that Valiant has them in at the moment...
Unity looks very cool – though I’m not sure why Bloodshot is on the cover of ‘who will join them?” – given he was part of the team during AH…looking at the standard cover, you’d have to say Faith is the new member, though surely Torque will join also? Doesn’t feel right not seeming them part of the same team now.
I’m undecided about Punk Mambo – I wanted to get all the Valiant 0’s so will likely add this though haven’t had all the much exposure to her (dropped Shadowman at 13x). This combined with the Dr. Mirage mini has me thinking there are some big plans for an expanded and more involved cast in Shadowman should the on-going resume in 2015 – fingers cross, this feels like solid groundwork for something special.
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Lots of cool stuff to look forward to - I'm excited for Bloodshot 25 & the new EW mini in particular, plus the intro of the Armorines. The Punk Mambo zero issue is unexpected but looks cool, I'm interested in reading more about her background.
Definitely a heavy shift to mini's & one-shots this month, but at least we get RAI back in December, and who knows what will replace the Delinquents mini (will we get A&A back as an ongoing?)...
Definitely a heavy shift to mini's & one-shots this month, but at least we get RAI back in December, and who knows what will replace the Delinquents mini (will we get A&A back as an ongoing?)...
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