VEI Website Review.......

**Before I get to my review, I must admit I am sorry for being tardy. It appears, someone contacted the powers that be and said this a spam posting and my account was locked down for a period of five days.

Thank you very much for doing this, VEI has not always been forthright with its customer base, no matter how big or small we are. Now that VALIANT Comics Snob is fully verified, it will not be silenced again.....**

I set here behind my keyboard and wonder exactly what to expect from the new Valiant (not capitalized, how sad). I sit here scratching my head from time to time when I think of how the government fleeces America and think that VEI is nothing more than a new magic trick we have yet to encounter.

First off, I understand that re-releasing material is great to rebuild and add new customers to its demographic and gain capital. VALIANT, that we know and love, was a company, an entire generation of readers ago. Hence the new coloring, making it jump off of the shelf is very important. It has to compete with Manga comics now. Which is great for the new art contained on the website, it appears to be animated cell stills, something that Dinesh knows something about, since he graduated from the University of Southern California and has had limited work in movies.

Regardless, the website is fun and has a wealth of knowledge and the Valiant Wiki site it comical to say the least. Some of the write-ups are very detailed and some are off. I have to admit, I have had to correct a few to make them correct, and we are talking obvious ones at that. I have not read them all.

Furthermore, lets just see how this folds out, will VEI be around in one year, two years or three years, only you and I can make that happen. I have bought five copies of the Harbinger Hardcover already, I suppose I will purchase five of the X-O Hardcovers as well. After that, they will really have to WOW me more than just making me pay twenty-five dollars for an eight page story. The fan projects (VcVSS/VfVSS) have WOW'd me more than the material released from VEI so far and the upcoming book.

VEI has released some art from the upcoming X-O Hardcover, I will review that this week. I have emailed a few of the creative folks on their contribution to the X-O Hardcover, maybe if they get back to me in a timely manner, I will post bits from those interviews this week as well.

Thats all for this week,
The Snob