Bill Jemas at VEI

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:26 pm

All of mine had "Porn" in them.

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:42 pm

jedimarley wrote:All of mine had "Porn" in them.

Even your username is pretty bad... "I ram Jed Ely"

Who is Jed Ely, and why are you ramming him?

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:38 pm

greg wrote:My 10,000th post was June 23, 2009 in the topic "What are your favorite songs right now?"
http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25020

My answer was:
greg wrote:Josh, Steve, and Aria - "Homes"
This group and song doesn't exist.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:47 pm

greg wrote:
jedimarley wrote:All of mine had "Porn" in them.
Even your username is pretty bad... "I ram Jed Ely"

Who is Jed Ely, and why are you ramming him?

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:15 am

I cannot say that I find VEI's strategy of information to be something that makes sense (witness the secrecy about comic book publishing appointees versus the Hollywood option hype); but it finally sounds as though something may finally be happening. I really want to hear of creators being lined up, since until that happens nothing can truly happen in terms of having material to publish, can it?

If - and I say if since until such time as VEI publish even one comic book they are not proven as a comic book publisher in my view - they publish something using the VEI properties, then I will gladly support them, and more gladly would be happy to have been proven wrong in my doubts and misgivings about them.

That is something I have stated more than once previously, but at this stage, I think VEI have only one way to really secure good will of potential comic book fans for the VALIANT properties going forwards, and that is to actually publish new comics books. I hope we finally see something, but my reservations will remain until something is actually solicited and even then will only be lessened until something is published.

I think dropping the lawsuit was probably for the best. better yet would probably not to have launched it in the first place. Better still would have been to have a contract for Jim Shooter signed and in place (if the claim that there wasn't such a contract is true, well that is something only a limited few actually know - others of us are going on what we are told or read).

I have based my reservations on what we can 'see'. That has been intentially obfuscated by VEI for their own reasons. Their choice. Not a good choice in my view. Until I can add VEI comic books to my pull list some of my doubts will remain.

In principle the Bill Jemas news is more reassuring than say the Fred Pierce news. But this 'drip, drip' information release via rumours (and as much as I like reading his stuff, and no matter his overlal good accuracy, Rich Johnston's work is in effect generally solid rumour reporting). VEI - in my opinion - need to take the information initiative, otherwise I think they end up looking amateurish. But they are the professionals, so it is their decision as to how they manage their information flow.

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:30 am

Lame Tell Not - oh, irony.
Tall Mole Net - never going to be accused of being tall, but as for mole netting...?

chainnball · Post by **chainnball** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:11 pm

I love the first one that popped up for me, lol

Nirvana by dork

yardstick · Post by **yardstick** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:33 am

chainnball wrote:I love the first one that popped up for me, lol

Nirvana by dork

at least it wasnt

Ball An Chin

hulk181man · Post by **hulk181man** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:15 pm

yardstick wrote:
chainnball wrote:I love the first one that popped up for me, lol

Nirvana by dork
at least it wasnt

Ball An Chin

Yardstick thy name is teabag!

vikingspawn · Post by **vikingspawn** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:09 pm

He left for a new company?

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/17773.html

Bill Jemas Joins Alloy, Inc.

Tween/Teen-Centric Media & Marketing Company
Published: 06/25/2010 05:53pm

Bill Jemas, the former COO of Marvel Entertainment, who earlier this year resurfaced in connection with a group set on reviving the Valiant comic book properties such as Harbinger, X-O Manowar, and Archer and Armstrong, has joined the board of directors of Alloy, Inc. Jemas is coming on board at the time when Alloy, the parent company of Alloy Entertainment, known for its TV series such as Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and Pretty Little Liars, is being acquired by ZelnickMedia for $127 million.

As part of the acquisition former Nickelodeon CEO Geraldine Laybourne will become Chairman of the Board, and Jemas will join the Board of Directors. Jemas will work with Laybourne, and Leslie Morgenstern, CEO of Alloy Entertainment on merchandising, content, and Alloy’s entertainment assets in order to grow Alloy into a major entertainment and media brand that focus on the 10-29 demographic.
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dave · Post by **dave** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:16 pm

Another guy jons, no announcement, followed by no production followed by a departure?

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:16 pm

You can sit on the board of a company and not work there, but this sounds like he is working there.

vikingspawn · Post by **vikingspawn** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:21 pm

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111802 ... id=14&cs=1

Another industry vet with ties to ZelnickMedia, former Marvel Entertainment chief operating officer Bill Jemas, will also join Alloy's board. Laybourne's background in entertainment and Jemas' long history in licensing and merchandising, with Marvel as well as the NBA and Madison Square Garden, was one of the factors that drove the acquisition, according Jordan Turkewitz and Andrew Vogel, the ZelnickMedia partners who spearheaded the deal.
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UnknownTales · Post by **UnknownTales** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:36 pm

WOW!

who is left to straightened up the deck chairs? The Carpathia is hours away...

vikingspawn wrote:http://www.variety.com/article/VR111802 ... id=14&cs=1

Another industry vet with ties to ZelnickMedia, former Marvel Entertainment chief operating officer Bill Jemas, will also join Alloy's board. Laybourne's background in entertainment and Jemas' long history in licensing and merchandising, with Marvel as well as the NBA and Madison Square Garden, was one of the factors that drove the acquisition, according Jordan Turkewitz and Andrew Vogel, the ZelnickMedia partners who spearheaded the deal.
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iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:06 pm

Mr. Jemas, please return your laptop.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:21 pm

iggy101us wrote:Mr. Jemas, please return your laptop.

Asseclownes.

Crow331 · Post by **Crow331** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:47 pm

iggy101us wrote:Mr. Jemas, please return your laptop.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:54 pm

It's time to say it. Some may see this as defamation of character, but it appears, from the outside looking in, that those in charge of VEI are utterly incapable of running a publishing house. Perhaps it is not the rats that are jumping ship, but at the helm?

UnknownTales · Post by **UnknownTales** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:19 pm

Will the apologists now blame Jemas to stall another 6 months so they can continue to shop movie options instead of printing something?

Hell, VIP printed an ashcan...

They could log onto penciljak,com and hire someone to draw a 22 page story for free and publish it in two months...

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:51 pm

UnknownTales wrote:Will the apologists now blame Jemas to stall another 6 months so they can continue to shop movie options instead of printing something?

Hell, VIP printed an ashcan...

They could log onto penciljak,com and hire someone to draw a 22 page story for free and publish it in two months...

Indeed. They seem to want everything "perfect" and "the way we (they) want it", but that ignores the realities of the market and business that they are in. More important, they have ignored the desires of the audience they depend on in order to become profitable. YEARS of silence have not been golden. Instead, there is rust and the ship has gone off the radar. Why could they not say they were still around? Why could they not say they have "hired key people and are working on a major announcement"? Why the secrecy? In order to make a big splash? The chance for the "Big Splash" is past. Not making any official announcements and having the only "news" be secondhand about people being sued, filing a suit, "maybe" being hired and then seeing that they have left-if they were ever hired in the first place-and signed to a new company, is no way to run a business. The "silence" has to stop.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:57 pm

xodacia81 wrote:
UnknownTales wrote:Will the apologists now blame Jemas to stall another 6 months so they can continue to shop movie options instead of printing something?

Hell, VIP printed an ashcan...

They could log onto penciljak,com and hire someone to draw a 22 page story for free and publish it in two months...
Indeed. They seem to want everything "perfect" and "the way we (they) want it", but that ignores the realities of the market and business that they are in. More important, they have ignored the desires of the audience they depend on in order to become profitable. YEARS of silence have not been golden. Instead, there is rust and the ship has gone off the radar. Why could they not say they were still around? Why could they not say they have "hired key people and are working on a major announcement"? Why the secrecy? In order to make a big splash? The chance for the "Big Splash" is past. Not making any official announcements and having the only "news" be secondhand about people being sued, filing a suit, "maybe" being hired and then seeing that they have left-if they were ever hired in the first place-and signed to a new company, is no way to run a business. The "silence" has to stop.

I think the silence has gone from "sworn to secrecy" type of silence to "stick a fork in the" silence.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:58 pm

400yrs wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:
UnknownTales wrote:Will the apologists now blame Jemas to stall another 6 months so they can continue to shop movie options instead of printing something?

Hell, VIP printed an ashcan...

They could log onto penciljak,com and hire someone to draw a 22 page story for free and publish it in two months...
Indeed. They seem to want everything "perfect" and "the way we (they) want it", but that ignores the realities of the market and business that they are in. More important, they have ignored the desires of the audience they depend on in order to become profitable. YEARS of silence have not been golden. Instead, there is rust and the ship has gone off the radar. Why could they not say they were still around? Why could they not say they have "hired key people and are working on a major announcement"? Why the secrecy? In order to make a big splash? The chance for the "Big Splash" is past. Not making any official announcements and having the only "news" be secondhand about people being sued, filing a suit, "maybe" being hired and then seeing that they have left-if they were ever hired in the first place-and signed to a new company, is no way to run a business. The "silence" has to stop.
I think the silence has gone from "sworn to secrecy" type of silence to "stick a fork in the" silence.

Sadly, that could very well be the case.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:40 am

its all the same till ya hear something

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:40 am

I'm so surpised there is absolutely no way to contact VEI and just say:

What the *SQUEE* are you doing?

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:02 pm

ya that would be like 100 emails a day they would have to read