CBR: EXCLUSIVE: Venditti & Simons Relaunch "X-O Manowar"

[CBR News]

Writer Robert Venditti and Editor Warren Simons spoke exclusively with CBR about the reboot of the Valiant Universe, beginning with its flagship title, "X-O Manowar."


Full article here.

[Scott M Davis]

Awesome. This is gonna be awesome.

My Dad is waiting for announcements cause if he likes them, he will come back to comics after 12 yrs of not buying them. He mooches my trades though!

[finfangfool]

Been wondering where Nord was since Conan, love his art. Not familiar with the writer, but the interview definitely impressed me. X-O was my favorite Valiant title back in the day (unless you count Quantum & Woody), and I can't wait to try this one. Just wish Dark Horse or Image had bought up the concept, been burned too many times by Valiant relaunches.

[jamal Igle]

That looks really good.

[sonicdan]

Yes! This is wonderful news. The artwork looks amazing. Cary Nord is perfect for this book!
DAN

http://www.sonicdan.com/VALIANT.HTML

[gwydion]

Looking forward to it! As you can tell from that other thread, Valiant was a huge draw for me; and looking at those pencils and reading the interview just makes me anticipate the relaunch with even more excitement! XO! Bloodshot! Ninjak! Harbingers! Shadowman! Eternal Warrior! Lots of old familiar faces coming back.

[BrotherUnitNo_4]

This looks pretty good. The Jelena Djurdjevic cover is what originally drew me to this relaunch, and this interview really got me excited for the book. Looking forward to the FCBD issue.

[Scott M Davis]

I like that the first issue is released the Wednesday before FCBD. That's good synergy.

Hope stores over order, cause its gonna sell out!

[Schmakt]

Awesome. I was not excited about this at all after they released that cover, but with Nord drawing, I'm totally in.

[Rasputin9977]

I'm so stoked for Valiants return. I recently added Defenders, Journey Into Mystery, Wolverine and the XMen and Scarlet Spider to my pull list to fill some holes but I'm going to drop them instead to make room for Valiant.

[Pil]

The interior art looks nice and interesting. As a big fan of the original series I've been a little worried about how the reboot would be handled, but apparently they intend to keep the things that made Aric an interesting character. This really looks like something which could be a success.

[rasx]

This is going to be so awesome! Did I hear they mentioned Shadowman?

[the goddamn batman]

I'm excited about this potentially being good. Sounds like the hearts are in the right places. Beyond that, who knows.

Bloodshot, Ninjak... blah. Bring back the original Rai concept. That was cool, and almost completely wasted in the original VU.

I feel like valiant often missed the mark. Making drab comics out of what could be really awesome concepts. How cool of an idea is Magnus, and yet, how boring have all of his comics been.

Hope for better this time around.

[MrHashasheen]

... The Vine is a pretty silly name for an alien race but besides that I'm pretty pumped for X-O Manowar. I'm kinda disappointed they haven't announced anything else officially yet, but there are artworks getting released so this probably isn't the end of it.

[hondobrode]

Incredibly stoked ! I have waited for years ! Valiant was my favorite upstart publisher of the 90's.

Still crossing my fingers and hoping Valiant can still do something with the Gold Key characters. If not, I hope they'll introduce their own versions of those characters and build them up.

Hoping against hope we could get Shooter or Windsor-Smith to contribute too.

Until they fumble, I'm all in across the board. Here's my money, just keep this quality coming.