That's pretty disappointing. At least with the incentive covers you aren't missing out on anything. Making an actual story incentive based seems like a bit of a dick move, especially if it won't be offered in trade or digital form.
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That's pretty disappointing. At least with the incentive covers you aren't missing out on anything. Making an actual story incentive based seems like a bit of a dick move, especially if it won't be offered in trade or digital form.
Article at ValiantUniverse.com on the chase series Book of Death: Legend of the Geomancer. Not collected in the Book of Death trade nor released digitally.
If it shows up digitally it'll be because someone physically scans the pages and uploads them for pirating.
The reader in me isn't too happy about it because the crux of the promotion lies in your LCS to buy into this event like they might Convergence or Secret Wars. VALIANT readership fluctuates of course across the country but VEI has at best about 1% of the market place share--at best, on a good month.
I have a good relationship with my LCS owner. I explained the deal to him. His store has 3, THREE dedicated "I buy all VALIANT", hold file/box subscribers. He has nearly 300 subscribers. That means he has to order 75 copies of Book of Death #1 just to meet our wants for the incentive chase BoD:LotGeomancer. He has about a half dozen other VALIANT readers who fluctuate their titles and about another half dozen who may whimsically pick up the main title BoD. That would leave him with about 60 copies give or take---that's a lot of back stock.
He'd only have to pre-order 30 copies of issues #2-4 of BoD for us three dedicated "buy it all" folks to get the incentive chase. Which he says isn't an issue--it's that issue #1 that's the hang up.
I can appreciate the boldness of this incentive from a marketing standpoint. The reader in me is just a bit betrayed that I've got to go to such great lengths to try and get it at a price that isn't "an arm&a leg". Especially if it's not going to be collected at some point down the calendar in a trade.
"Descender" is outstanding. Expected nothing less from Lemaire. This is follow up to last year's outstanding "Trillium".
Yeah I'm about to read the finale and the movie should be really interesting. Millar has said and I think it's been confirmed elsewhere that "Starlight" will be first, then "Chrononauts" and he's still working out the "Nemesis" film as well.
Archaia has announced on the Nerdist website that the third and final volume of the Dark Crystal: Creation Myths trilogy will be released on Sept. 2. Dark Crystal is one of my favorite movies, and I loved the first 2 volumes of Creation Myths so I'm really excited for this. I'm really curious to see just how close to the movie this will get us, I'm thinking we should at least get to see some of the genocide of the Gelflings.
He just finished the scripts for Starlight II like five days ago too. Supposedly we'll get more background on the Broteans and Tantalus and maybe whatever happened to the old Queen.
Dark Horse has finally been added to Comixology. This morning they added almost 700 new comics, mostly from DH, including Hellboy and it's spinoffs., Sin City, a couple Halos, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Conan, Buffy and it's spinoffs, Avatar: TLA and Korra, the current Tomb Raider series, and a crap load of other stuff.
Sadly the Dark Horse app is not cross compatible with Comixology so you'll still need to keep it to read previous DH purchases.
Well the latest issue of Ninjak was a bit of a departure from the first three issues. I'm not familiar with Ninjak beyond what I've read in this new series but it felt a bit out of place. Still, it was an interesting read. I particularly liked the backup story.
I also read the second issue of "Resident Alien: The Sam Hain Mystery" and continue to be highly entertained by it. I think it would make a great tv series.
I also read the second issue of "Resident Alien: The Sam Hain Mystery" and continue to be highly entertained by it. I think it would make a great tv series.
I took advantage of Comixology's Ghostbusters sale and picked up the first trade of the first volume of the ongoing series. I believe the sale is still going on if anyone else is interested. It freaked me out when I got on the Comixology app the other day, they totally changed the way your purchased books are collected.
Yeah, I'm not sure I like the new Comixology format.
It's a fill-in issue to give the regular artist (Clay Mann) some time to catch up. I think this issue kind of implies that Roku might have been his handler from the back up stories.
Interesting I never noticed that angle to it. But you are right. I would assume that it's contrast to how Ninjak is a technological based character.
Hopefully they just give Ninjak's origin after this arc. The jumbled childhood flashbacks and secret agent backups don't seem to give much coherence to his character. None of the sociopathy you see in his childhood flashbacks are in his character now and he even goes out of his way not to kill people in the present arc.
Hopefully they just give Ninjak's origin after this arc. The jumbled childhood flashbacks and secret agent backups don't seem to give much coherence to his character. None of the sociopathy you see in his childhood flashbacks are in his character now and he even goes out of his way not to kill people in the present arc.
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