X-O Manowar Back In Print

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:57:27 am

400yrs wrote:
slym2none wrote:Tax breaks???

-slym
Yep. That's interesting that the company's address is BVI.

This is purely speculative, but that makes a whole lot of sense and would explain why the parents were willing to spend $1M on the properties that aren't doing anything.

Companies like to use the BVI, Dubai, etc to register companies to keep cash, expenses, equipment off of their local reporting set of books...... usually for tax reasons, sometimes for performance measurement reasons.....

I wonder if VEI is a subsidiary of a company..... or held as an investment.

If VEI exists as a means of holding some investment, I would argue (as I did in the Dead or Dying thread) that said investment is probably worth less now than it was on purchase. Now whwther that is relevant to anything is a whole other issue, but the point you make is an interesting one.

If purely some kind of held asset, then we probably would not have seen Jim Shooter hired, or the associations with Bill Jemas etc. So presumably they (VEI) wanted to do something with the VALIANT properties; whether that 'something' was to genuinely produce regular comic books or something else (say a focus on other media licensing perhaps) is open to debate.

Still you have to think, that after this many years, if they (VEI) had both the will and the capital, then they could well have gone into regular comic book publication by now.

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:38:20 pm

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Dav ... dependents

Dave Ryan raised over $5,000 via kickstarter. If you click on the video, I think that's X-O Manowar appearing at the 0:55 mark center-left.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:25:08 pm

War of the Independents actually looks like a pretty cool project. Very similar to Shi/Cyblade: Battle for Independents back in the 90s, which featured brief appearances every indi character you can think of doing battle with an evil force that's symbolic of the big publishers.

http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=151341

Of course this is done a much bigger scale. How do you get a copy of it?

As mentioned earlier in the thread X-O is no longer on the cover. here's the original:

http://i55.tinypic.com/15ebrs3.jpg

Here's what it looks like now:

http://www.examiner.com/comic-books-in- ... ents-photo

(Looked way better with X-O)

It's ashame. Woulda been great free publicity. Anyone know if VEI sent a "cease and desist"?

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:31:10 pm

Todd Luck wrote: It's ashame. Woulda been great free publicity. Anyone know if VEI sent a "cease and desist"?

I don't know, but it certainly would seem so. X-O is the only noticeable character that changed.

They probably saw all of those characters and figured X-O was too good for that.

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:28:25 pm

pretty lame move if so, its not like they are using him in any form right now anyway..

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:28:56 pm

Chiclo wrote:
wrunow wrote:According to Dinesh, they were not given permission to use XO.

Don't know much else about this though.
I wonder if Steve Engelhart was the person that gave permission.

I am not saying he had the permission to give, just that he might have been the person they talked to.

Then I would highly suggest they look the value of early issues of X-O compared to the early issues of Scud, Cerebus, Bone, Madman, ect.

marvel1 · Post by **marvel1** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:59:42 pm

From what i know there was a miscommunication between both parties,I was going to do a page with X-O in it,i have been told not to draw X-O and he will not appear in the book.And that is that.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 8:42:22 pm

As Todd pointed out, it would have at least been some publicity for the character again. Makes you wonder what the problem was that couldn't be easily worked out.

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:36:59 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:As Todd pointed out, it would have at least been some publicity for the character again. Makes you wonder what the problem was that couldn't be easily worked out.

co-sign

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:45:59 pm

sine

=slym (yes, the equals sign was on purpose)

myron · Post by **myron** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 10:23:52 am

only at pi/4 +/- npi

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 10:33:53 am

myron wrote:only at pi/4 +/- npi

Now my brain hurts....

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:52:53 am

myron wrote:only at pi/4 +/- npi

Hey, you. Math teacher! Yeah, you. QFT!

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:45:36 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
myron wrote:only at pi/4 +/- npi
Now my brain hurts....

That's because you are in degrees. Try setting your mind to radians and try it again.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:12:29 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
myron wrote:only at pi/4 +/- npi
Now my brain hurts....
That's because you are in degrees. Try setting your mind to radians and try it again.

Ah....cool!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:56:47 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
myron wrote:only at pi/4 +/- npi
Now my brain hurts....
That's because you are in degrees. Try setting your mind to radians and try it again.

I read it as Klingon... and had such the laugh.

-slym

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:39:23 pm

I feel it is appropriate to point out that if one lets n equal all integers then the add/subtract operator can be simplified to either simple addition (or simple subtraction if you are feeling cute).

The statement is still true for n equal to all integers but it is just simpler without the +/- operator.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:17:46 am

So I take it no one can tell me how to get a printed copy of War of the Independents? I take it it hasn't been distributed to comic shops yet?