Collectors Corner Summer of Valiant Party
Hold the presses!
Do you live in the Maryland area? If so, you MUST go to the Fred Van Lente signing and Summer Of Valiant party at Collector’s Corner in Baltimore! Fred is signing from 1-5pm, and this looks to be the best Comic party today!
They’ve got a ton of sales and deals all day. If I weren’t 3,000 miles away, this is where I would be.
If you are in the area, make sure you check it out! Click the link for more information.
Now back to our regular scheduled program:
This week is pretty well dominated by Archer & Armstrong.
For good reason. That first issue was one of the most fun reads to come around in a good long time. If I could hang out with any characters from any of the Valiant comics, it would be Archer and Armstrong. Snap keep.
Most of this week in review is gonna be dedicated to Archer & Armstrong, but there are a few other things that may have made it through the cracks.
Monday:
Remember a long time ago, there was an IGN Presents: Valiant Live event at Midtown Comics? There is a replay available now.
Then we found out about this awesome promo:
This week we will have our 1st ever
#WALKINWEDNESDAY-Walk into YOUR favorite comic shop snap a pic w/ ANY comics you are buying this week.— ValiantComics (@ValiantComics) August 6, 2012
You can take a picture with ANY comics you buy for
#WALKINWEDNESDAY just make sure YOU, YOUR COMICS, & YOUR FAVORITE RETAILER are in da pic!— ValiantComics (@ValiantComics) August 6, 2012
The PRIZE for this weeks
#WALKINWEDNESDAY will be the 1:100 VARIANT COVER for ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #1 by the legendary NEAL ADAMS himself!— ValiantComics (@ValiantComics) August 6, 2012
What a brilliant promotion! It promotes Valiant, it promotes Comic Shops, and it rewards people for going in to their comic shop in Wednesday to get their new books. It’s win-win-win-win.
Archer & Armstrong #1 Regular Cover
Tuesday:
- Newsarama has a Best Shot Advance Review of Archer & Armstrong #1.
- CBR has a look at the Variant covers to Archer & Armstrong #4
- Valiant puts up their third (and final?) Gold Logo X-O Manowar #1 charity auction
- Justin Jordan, the writer of the upcoming Shadowman series, is up for a Harvey Award for “Most Promising New Talent”, go vote for him!
- The Republic has a story about Valiant’s promising comeback
Wednesday:
Day of a million billion reviews! Here’s a bunch of reviews for Archer & Armstrong #1.
- ScienceFisction.com
- Weekly Crisis
- Darling Dork
- Stumptown Trade Review
- Team Hellions
- Raving Nerd
- Comicosity
Archer & Armstrong #1 Neal Adams Cover
On the Digital Comics front:
- Archer & Armstrong #13-#20 became available on Comixology for all you digital classics lovers
It’s also #WalkInWednesday! Click here and scroll down to see all the cool pics! I took my pic at The Isotope, the grooviest comic shop in the world.
Thursday:
More reviews for Archer & Armstrong #1:
- ComicBook.com
- Inter Comics
- The Beat has a review of A&A #1
- and Boing-Boing picked up The Beats review for those paying attention to the breadth of Valiant’s exposure
Also:
- CBR has a look at the November Valiant solicitations
Valiant announced the winner to the #WalkInWednesday contest. It’s EVERYONE!
We were so blown away by
#WALKINWEDNESDAY‘s success, we’ve decided to give EVERY PARTICIPANT a Neal Adams variant cover as a show of thanks!— ValiantComics (@ValiantComics) August 9, 2012
Yet another reason to join the party on Twitter.
Friday:
This Friday was the usual, more reviews and praise for Archer & Arsmtrong #1, #FanArtFriday, etc. Honestly, I got no time to look it up! I’ heading on vacation for a week, and was scrmabling all day to get ready. You’re on your own for Friday!