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All a ploy to launch All New The Eternals and build a film franchise, no doubt.

The only thing Crystal had going for her was the hairstyle you take that away and it leaves nothing. But that can be said of all but 3 or 4 of the Inhumans so that just moves her back into the crowd, i guess.

I was just thinking about how we were facing a severe shortage of both Inhumans and Charles Soule books.

Ming Doyle as a character in Quantum and Woody? Absurd! What’s next, the editor of Black Panther?

I wasn’t too optimistic about this when I was still hoping Priest and Bright were coming back to it. Now? No way. Everything that made Q&W great was Priest and Bright just going for broke and doing whatever they could think of. This version is like if some young filmmaker, I dunno…James Gunn, remade Gummo. What’s the point?

Everything you love about Quantum & Woody is back!

Uh, except for the people who had everything to do with why you loved it.

Have to agree, without Priest and Bright this looks like a disaster. I hope I’m wrong, the new Archer and Armstrong is stellar and Harbinger is quite decent. The real pity is that had Priest returned his writing would have dovetailed with the progressive content of the other two.

So off of 17 panels with little reference and no dialogue you are already able to announce this as a disaster? I wish I had your prognostication skills.

With 17 panels, no dialogue, and without the original creators, yes, I am ready to announce this book holds no interest for me. If you want to spend your money on someone else doing their interpretation of a property, knock yourself out. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that and sometimes you’re rewarded with some truly interesting work. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comes to mind as well as Miller and Mazichelli’s Daredevil comics. Generally speaking, though, I’m not too interested in that approach unless I already have faith based on previous experience the creator in question is going to have an interesting interpretation.

Hurm… Well, I’ll give it a look, but I’m a little nervous. I’ve just reread the trades, and all of those scenes look like they’re straight from the original, almost panel by panel in some cases. I love Tom Fowler, no problems there, but I can’t say I’ve been blown away by Asmus on what I’ve read by him so far. Awesome Marcos Martin cover, though.

And then, of course, there’s this:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/26/kevin-maguire-talks-valiant-and-acclaim-contracts/

I loved the old Q&W series, and the art here looks sharp, but if it’s really being made over the objections of the original creators thank to some rather creative dodging of the intent of their contract, well, I’m suddenly not all that interested in reading it.

Without Priest and Bright, I’m not interested. They are why the original series was worth reading. It was disappointing that this just read like a press release with no mention of them.

Oh, HERE’S the new thread. Hope nobody minds me reposting this from the teaser thread (mostly seconding what Jason Green just said):

Welp, sadly it looks like I’m going to have to eat my words. Here I thought I was a cynic, but the comics industry continues to prove that I’m actually an optimist.

Priest and Bright aren’t on the new series, and according to Kevin Maguire ( http://tinyurl.com/bnxscyc ) Acclaim breached the reversion clause in their contracts on a technicality.

Priest and Bright themselves haven’t weighed in yet. I can’t speak for them and I don’t know what their deal with the current Valiant is, if any. I’m sincerely hoping that Valiant approached them, offered them the book first, got their permission to do it without them, and is paying them creator royalties on the new series.

But I haven’t seen any evidence that any of that has happened. In a CBR interview ( http://tinyurl.com/d2h7jbz ) the CEO/CCO of Valiant claims he’s been in touch with Priest and Bright about future projects and IMPLIES they’re okay with the current series, but he doesn’t come out and say it and he also repeatedly calls Priest “Chris”, which suggests to me that he has never actually spoken with Christopher Priest personally. (I don’t claim to know Priest but I DO know he doesn’t like being called Chris and he will tell you so.)

I’d like to buy this book. I’d like to LIKE this book. Fowler’s art seems like a good fit and I’ve heard good things about Asmus’s writing. But if Priest and Bright haven’t been consulted and aren’t being compensated, then that’s a deal-breaker for me.

Without knowing any other details, I’d say that Kevin Maguire’s statements seems like a pretty clear cut case of fraud on the part of the company. Maguire, Priest, Doc Bright and all the others should get some of that CBLDF money to sue for their characters back.

That said, if the new VEI truly owns 100% of the rights to the Valiant/Acclaim universe and is not doing some kind of mass licensing then it should be well within their power to right this wrong themselves and transfer ownership back to these creators.

Johnny Memeonic: The CBLDF only weighs in on issues of censorship and First Amendment violations, and specifically state that they don’t get involved in contract disputes:

http://cbldf.org/f-a-q/

That said, if the problem in the case of Kevin Maguire and Priest and Bright and anyone else who was ripped off by Acclaim is simply a lack of funds, why don’t they band together and file a class action lawsuit as a group?

Around the office, they call them the Penis Five.

Oh, this might actually get me to buy the book. For real! Hey, why not! It’s about time we saw something other than breasts! LOL

His physique isn’t sexy in the least. I was looking forward to some beefcake and got chicken wings instead.

This also ties into something else I wrote a while ago: http://www.comicsvanguard.com/2012/02/exclusive-we-talk-with-kieron-gillen.html

Self-promotion is so much fun I love it ain’t I great

Well, the Phoenix Five gag actually came from my latest AvX write-up at ComicsAlliance, but that’s OK, my jokes are so good that they do deserve to wander free, like hilarious ronin. http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/07/24/comicsalliance-vs-avx-round-eight-avengers-x-men-bendis-kubert/

Of course, their names could also spell spine, pines, and snipe. Probably some others, but that’s all that occurs to me at the moment.

Those “It’s Coming” promos take on a whole new meaning.

I read the Comics Bulletin interview of Asmus. It’s interesting how intent Asmus is on getting readers attached to Gambit as a character, rather than focusing on the story. Read a crime story, watch a heist film, or watch a CSI TV show: you’ll get a neatly packaged bit of crime fiction. Asmus might be excited about doing a mash-up of various elements, but he appears to be trying to come up with things for Gambit to do from issue to issue to issue. If someone doesn’t find Gambit immediately appealing and attractive as a character, why read about him?

There’s also the problem with his power. The description of the power on Wikipedia is incoherent. Take the first sentence: Gambit is a mutant who has the power to take the potential energy stored in an object and convert it to kinetic energy thus “charging” that item with explosive results. That use of the power matches what I saw in VERSUS #2, but it has nothing to do with potential energy. It’s closer to matter-energy conversion. The Wikipedia description of his power, if it’s accurate, makes the power practically unusable.

SRS

Sorry Andrew! I’ll go give you the credit you deserve

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Synsidar: They left out the part about how his power only works within the physics of the fictional Marvel Universe. Probably just a typo…