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Barristicide posted:
Thanks for reminding me that I needed to buy the Unity and second A&A books. I really want to start getting those classic Valiant books but I have little attachment to those versions anymore. I really want them to start collecting the Acclaim comics.
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CharlestheHammer posted:It's kind of funny Armor Hunters deluxe makes X-O deluxe 3 redundant I just looked that up. That's really funny / strange.
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Mar 18, 2016 00:11
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LordPants posted:I just looked that up. That's really funny / strange. Valiant deluxes are weird, if you want the complete story you are gonna double dip a lot. So this is actually an improvement.
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Mar 18, 2016 00:59
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CharlestheHammer posted:Valiant deluxes are weird, if you want the complete story you are gonna double dip a lot. Kinda... Reading the trades is hard because if you want to read the intended order, you read one issue from one trade, hop to another trade to read the second issue, and so on. The hardcovers for Armor Hunters and Harbinger Wars are all in order, so they are so much better. But why they didn't start XO's third hardcover after Armor Hunters is beyond me.
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Mar 18, 2016 01:22
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It's because some people won't bother to buy the AH HC.
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Mar 18, 2016 01:35
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Can you get the essentials just from reading X-O Vol. 3?
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Mar 18, 2016 01:38
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LordPants posted:Can you get the essentials just from reading X-O Vol. 3? I dunno, I bought Armor Hunters. Is Vol.3 even out yet?
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Mar 18, 2016 02:02
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It releases this month. Same for Book of death deluxe I think.
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LordPants posted:Can you get the essentials just from reading X-O Vol. 3? Most likely, and you can get the trades to fill in the Harbinger and Bloodshot parts which are more or less stand alone. But Armor Hunters is already out, and 100% of the third XO hardcover is in the Armor Hunters hardcover. So instead of making people confused, why not just make them pay the extra ~$10 or so for the Armor Hunters HC and pick up XO at 30? At this point, people are either going to buy 1,2 and 3, skipping AH, or 1,2,AH skipping 3. Or buy everything and feel ripped off because they bought the same comics twice. Dumb.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:28
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LordPants posted:Can you get the essentials just from reading X-O Vol. 3? You mean skip reading Armor Hunters? I would not recommend that, it's one of the best comic crossovers I've ever read.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:46
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X-O posted:You mean skip reading Armor Hunters? I would not recommend that, it's one of the best comic crossovers I've ever read. No I mean X-O volume 3 has the armor hunters issues and the X-O issues but not the unity and uhhh harbinger(?) issues. This was an idle question, I've got them all on comixology anyway 
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Mar 18, 2016 02:49
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Rusty Kettle posted:Most likely, and you can get the trades to fill in the Harbinger and Bloodshot parts which are more or less stand alone. Well clearly AH should have been titled "X-O Manowar Vol.3: Armor Hunters" but somebody at Valiant decided they could make money off the people who don't care about the crossover.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:54
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LordPants posted:No I mean X-O volume 3 has the armor hunters issues and the X-O issues but not the unity and uhhh harbinger(?) issues. XO 3 is missing the Unity, Harbinger and Bloodshot issues. Literally the only thing it'll have over AH is the variant covers in the back, from what I can tell. There will likely be overlap there as well... Honestly, the only reason I would recommend XO3 over AH is if you really need to save the extra $10 but are still buying comics, or if you will get upset if your books are numbered 1,2,AH,4. Just get the AH hardcover. It's a thing of beauty.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:55
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If the Book of Death Deluxe doesn't contain the Geomancer issues I'm going to cut someone. I'm not paying for floppies.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:57
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It only contains the main series and the fall of.... Going by the solicits.
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X-O posted:If the Book of Death Deluxe doesn't contain the Geomancer issues I'm going to cut someone. I'm not paying for floppies. quote:Collecting BOOK OF DEATH #1-4, BOOK OF DEATH: THE FALL OF BLOODSHOT #1, BOOK OF DEATH: THE FALL OF NINJAK #1, BOOK OF DEATH: THE FALL OF HARBINGER #1, and BOOK OF DEATH: THE FALL OF X-O MANOWAR #1 now in a deluxe oversized hardcover format!
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Mar 18, 2016 03:01
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I hold you personally responsible since you gave me false hope in the last thread.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:04
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X-O posted:I hold you personally responsible since you gave me false hope in the last thread. It sounds like those issues are getting their own super limited HC. If I can get one you get first dibs.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:04
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Rhyno posted:It sounds like those issues are getting their own super limited HC. If I can get one you get first dibs. If you're wrong this time you will pay.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:05
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Yeah let me know too if its possible to get one
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Mar 18, 2016 03:11
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It sounds like it's gonna be a one per store kind of thing. I will ask Adam when I see him on Saturday.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:12
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Bleedingcool, I know I know, is saying that Valiant has signed up or extended 15 artists for exclusives ahead of C2E2. That list is: Doug Braithwaite, David Lafuente, Trevor Hairsine, Mico Suayan, Raul Allen, Brian Reber, Diego Bernard, David Baron, CAFU, Khari Evans, Robert Gill, Clayton Henry, Lewis LaRosa, Pere Perez, Juan Jose Ryp. Which is pretty much all of Valiant's main artists outside of Clay Mann, signed with DC, who I will miss on Ninjak.
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Mar 18, 2016 03:58
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Rhyno posted:It sounds like those issues are getting their own super limited HC. If I can get one you get first dibs. What is your source on this?
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Rusty Kettle posted:What is your source on this? I am friends with a few people that work at Valiant who like to hint at stuff.
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Mar 18, 2016 05:27
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Why would they make a collection that limited a run. It's loving dumb.
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Mar 18, 2016 05:29
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CharlestheHammer posted:Why would they make a collection that limited a run. It's loving dumb. Are you unaware of how rare the singles were? It was an incentive to get your shop to order more copies of the main series.
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Mar 18, 2016 05:31
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I actually was not, but still that gimmick has run its course.
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Mar 18, 2016 05:33
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Yeah, that mini wasn't even released on Comixology, which is pretty much all I use for comics these days.
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Mar 18, 2016 05:35
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CharlestheHammer posted:I actually was not, but still that gimmick has run its course. This was a unique book, not just a cover. Kind of ballsy for a small company to pull a stunt like that. The initial claim was they would never reprint them. The current teased rumor is they will do a HC but it would be a one per store deal.
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They also do some really great incentive covers which look amazing but no chance I will ever see one in my tiny shop.
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I would be first in line for a hardcover even though I am a dumb baby who hunted down all the issues. They are pretty drat good, and give some great background into the lore behind the whole Valiant universe. That being said, Dinesh has gone on record dozens of times that they will not be reprinted, so I am pretty skeptical of those rumors.
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Just going to pick up all the recommendations you guy tossed out. I needed an excuse to get some stuff with my Secret Wars HC anyway. That and I've never really had a bad recommendation from any of you 
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So did the book of death ending change the fates of all the characters? The prophecy did not come to pass, but we know due to 4001 that some of the fates do happen.
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bobkatt013 posted:So did the book of death ending change the fates of all the characters? The prophecy did not come to pass, but we know due to 4001 that some of the fates do happen. I dunno. Ivar makes it seem like it'll happen one way or another, but then again the end could make the future able to be changed.... I think we should follow the advice of Ivar and realize that you shouldn't think too hard about time travel and let things play out. I have a feeling that while the whole 'bad guy kills everyone' event won't happen, most of the story beats including the Fall Of stuff will happen.
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Rusty Kettle posted:I dunno. Ivar makes it seem like it'll happen one way or another, but then again the end could make the future able to be changed.... The one that definitely happened as written was Ninjak since it has a connection to 4001. I do hope that the fall of fates still happen since they all really fit the characters. I also want to see more of pirate armstrong.
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Rusty Kettle posted:I would be first in line for a hardcover even though I am a dumb baby who hunted down all the issues. They are pretty drat good, and give some great background into the lore behind the whole Valiant universe. Yesterday at C2E2 at a Valiant panel, Legend of the Geomancer came up and CEO Dinesh said that while they wanted to make the comic an object fans had to track down, they never intended for it to become a scalpers' treasure that marked up to $25-50 online. He said that they would somehow distribute the remaining issues they still have around, though I'm not sure the actual method. There's a deal at their booth, six volume 1's for $30. Lots of hardcovers calling to me, too.
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I got some one on one time with Dinesh and Adam today. When i pressed Adam about the HC edition he firmly said "I'm not allowed to talk about that" and winked. Dinesh smiled and said "He's not allowed to talk about that."
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The end of the second feature in the Bloodshot Reborn annual was magical. 
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So some of the other stuff I talked to the V-guys was about creators. DC went after the Valiant artists and writers hard according to Adam. They made Clayton Crain an to come to DC and do a book of his choice but since he's so invested in what they're doing he declined. They tried to steal David Lafuente away before his first A&A even hit and it's a similar story pretty much everywhere. Venditti was offered exclusivity and turned it down. Basically DC tried to lock in everyone doing Valiant work.
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DC made smart choices there, glad to see these guys like what they've built at Valiant though. Any word on what Van Lente is doing next? Dinesh said a while back he'd already handed in scripts for his next book but there's been no announcement yet.
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