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Bleeding Cool has been told by several separate and well-connected sources that Valiant Comics creators have been given a 'pencils down' edict from editors and executives Told to stop working on all their comic books immediately, and that Valiant will be shuttering for the next month, rather than editorial working remotely As a result, creators[...]

Valiant Entertainment has announced a new series launching in June from writer Max Bemis and artist Nathan Stockman, with colors by Brian Reber, and letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Tooting their own horn in a press release, Valiant calls Savage "a thrilling new series that's packed with over-the-top action, animated artwork, and a massively entertaining and[...]

Being promoted to a senior editorial role at Valiant Entertainment is pretty cool too So congratulations to Heather Antos and Lysa Hawkins, who have both been promoted to Senior Editors at the Flying V, according to a press release Together, Antos and Hawkins, referred to by Valiant Publisher Fred Pierce as "architects of the Valiant[...]

Valiant Entertainment is offering the opportunity of a lifetime through Humble Bundle For the next week, the Bloodshot 2020 Humble Bundle will allow readers to pick up $400-worth of DRM-free Bloodshot comic for a price of their choosing But whoever chooses to pay the highest price will get a bonus prize: they'll be drawn into[...]

Imagine coming to C2E2 when your first feature movie comes out in two weeks and for the first time you, Valiant, doesn't have a booth at the show You do, however, have one panel at C2E2, a Bloodshot panel prior to the release of the movie in two weeks' time Now keep in mind the[...]

But this week, Marvel, Valiant, Vault and DC are stepping in too Dynamite especially use tiered covers, as well as black-and-white, virgin and tinted versions of covers, to encourage retailers to order a few more copies to qualify for these rarer, harder-to-find varieties And we always like to take a look Any numbers indicate the[...]

Valiant Entertaiment has announced the next creative team to relaunch a series in 2020: Writer Cullen Bunn, artist Jon Davis-Hunt, colorist Jordie Bellaire, and letterer Clayton Cowles will relaunch Shadowman this May, a press release revealed. Horror reaches new heights in SHADOWMAN #1 this May. New York Times bestselling writer CULLEN BUNN (Venom) and the terrifyingly talented[...]

Bleeding Cool has been repeatedly breaking news about the new New York-based publisher Bad Idea Comics, formed from former executives of Valiant Entertainment But there's one place you won't read about the publisher – and that's on Valiant's own associated Facebook pages, such as Valiant Comic Fans Administrator Christopher Amundson made it very clear If[...]

Yesterday, DC Comics announced that their DC Timeline and 5G lead-in for Free Comic Book Day would be a sequel to their Flash Forward comic by Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth, and be called Generation Zero. Which could be tricky as Valiant Entertainment also published a comic book called Generation Zero, only a couple of years[...]

For months, there's been rumours – and some not so subtle teasing – that former Valiant Comics executives Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons, Hunter Gorinson and Josh Johns have been building something new and disruptive to mount their return to comics publishing. It looks like they're calling that something Bad Idea – a new comic book publishing house that's already racked up an[...]

But Valiant Entertainment has at least found a way to capitalize on them Teaming up with Titan Books, Valiant has released full spoilers for their upcoming Bloodshot film in the form of a novelization of the movie Thanks to this novel by Gavin Smith, moviegoers can find out everything that happens in the film by[...]

Earlier this month, we told you that Valiant's Heroes would be In Crisis thanks to an Incoming murder mystery comic called Final Witness However, despite naming the comic and its premise (and Bleeding Cool actually had the name months earlier — pip pip), the comic was announced with no creative team However, Valiant has revealed[...]

Valiant Entertainment is looking to get themselves some of that sweet murder comic money in 2020 with a new five-issue series called The Final Witness, billed as "A Crime-Noir Serial Killer Mystery" and teased today in a press release with the caption: "Can You Solve the Case?" We don't know the who, what, where, or how,[...]

Quantum and Woody is set to relaunch at Valiant later this month, by Christopher Hastings and Ryan Browne But if you can't wait until January 29th, Valiant has released a now fully-lettered preview showing what you can expect Such as revelations about self-worth learned from the television during a goat workout session… A mysterious prophecy… Economic warfare[...]

Valiant Entertainment has released an early look at artist Emilio Laiso's inks for the upcoming X-O Manowar #1, the first issue of a new series by Laiso and writer Dennis Hopeless "Hallum" with colors by Ruth Redmond and letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou The long-anticipated series about the deadly jellyfish hero finally launches in March after being[...]

Good news struck for fans of the deadly jellyfish superhero known as X-O Manowar earlier this week when Valiant revealed that the new series by Dennis Hopeless "Hallum" and Emilio Laiso, originally intended to launch in November but delayed, will finally hit stores in March But important questions were left unanswered, such as how many[...]

Originally planned for November and then pushed back to 2020, that new X-O Manowar series by Dennis Hopeless "Hallum" and Emilio Laiso is set for release this March, according to a press release from Valiant. New York, NY (December 16th, 2019) – X-O MANOWAR #1 unleashes the Valiant Universe's most powerful hero in an all-new series[...]

According to a press release, Dark Horse, Valiant, Humanoids, and Impact Theory have all signed on to offer their comics on Graphite Series such as Hellboy, The Witcher, Aliens, Umbrella Academy, The Incal, The Metabarons, The Twilight Man, Bloodshot, and Neon Future are named as amongst the Graphit library that now numbers more than 25,000[...]

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy is to be adapted by the director of Crank and showrunner of Happy, Brian Taylor, production company Hivemind, co-founded by Bleeding Cool favourite, and formerly of Valiant Comics, Dinesh Shamdasani, and European production company Kallisti The book was incredibly influential, not just amongst conspiracy theories of the[...]

Valiant Entertainment is inviting readers to feast not with their stomachs but with their eyes on the delicious pencils and tantalizing inks of Marc Laming for February's upcoming Bloodshot #0 The idea for Bloodshot #0, by Laming and Tim Seeley, came when Valiant realized that there's a Bloodshot movie coming out on February 21st and[...]

Valiant recently revealed plans to sell every Bloodshot comic ever made for just twenty bucks, which means there's no excuse not to get caught up before Bloodshot #4 hits stores in December That issue kicks off a new story arc called The Long Shot which sees the titular Bloodshot trapped on a train, kind of[...]

In a pretty amazing deal, Valiant has announced plans to sell a digital collection of every Bloodshot comic book ever made for just twenty bucks Produced in conjunction with GIT Corp., the Bloodshot Digital Comic Book Collection features 159 comics which Valiant claims are worth $550, though the discussion of whether digital comics are worth[...]

We just mentioned that Mel Caylo has left Valiant Entertainment to become a new Synopsis Editor at Netflix Well, he's not the only one on Valiant's marketing team to make a very recent switch. Russell Brown was the Director Of Promotions and then the Executive VP of Licencing Promotion and Ad Sales at Marvel Comics from[...]

And in March 2018, he became the Marketing Director of comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment, just as the DMG buyout of Valiant saw a number of employees leave the company. Well this month, it seems Mel Caylo has moved on himself, as the new Synopsis Editor at Netflix. We look forward to see how he will be[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you last month, Valiant will be launching Doctor Tomorrow in February as part of their Heroes Of Valiant 2020 promotional run.   This February, teenage hothead and star athlete Bart Simms will come face to face with the Valiant Universe's greatest hero… himself! The action-packed adventure is by rising star Alejandro Arbona (contributor[...]

When Valiant Entertainment announced their new series of December, The Visitor by Paul Levitz and MJ Kim (though Bleeding Cool somehow had a four-month lead) it was listed as a five-issue series. Well, it seems that this Visitor will be sticking around a little longer, for six issues. As a result, the Pre-Order Bundle offer that Valiant[...]

Yesterday's Diamond Previews featured Valiant's DC Comics-tweaking The Year Of Heroes promotion for 2020, to launch a new Quantum & Woody series But it is not alone and Valiant are planning a new series every month through 20200, running alongside their existing Bloodshot, The Visitor, Psi-Lords, Rai and Roku series. As well as the announced-for November-but-then-delayed[...]

On the front cover of next week's Diamond Previews will be Valiant Entertainment announcing Valiant 2020: The Year of Heroes, an exciting new direction for the publisher in 2020, and opposite DC Comics' Year Of The Villain. While on their back cover, Red Sonja faces her greatest challenge yet — the Chaos! characters — in Dynamite[...]

Gregg Katzman, Marketing co-ordinator of Valiant Entertainment gets in touch, telling us that someone is 'Stepping Out of the Shadows in 2020…' Well, yes, that would be Ninjak, wouldn't it? Ninjak was created by Bob Layton, Mark Moretti and Joe Quesada in Bloodshot #6, back in 1993 as British aristocrat Colin King and in his ninja spy[...]

Here is the first official trailer for Sony Pictures' Bloodshot– the much-anticipated feature film adaptation of the Valiant comic book character created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton, that first appeared in a cameo in Eternal Warrior #4 in 199 and then a full appearance in Rai #0 later that year. The movie stars[...]