Valiant Unveils 2017 Convention Tour Schedule – Continuing at SC Comicon in March!

This year, the hardest touring company in comics is upping the stakes with more dates, more conventions, and more opportunities to meet your favorite creators than ever before! Valiant is proud to unveil its first round of dates and destinations for the VALIANT 2017 CONVENTION TOUR – a months-long, cross-country comics roadshow coming soon to a town near you! Kicking off this March with multiple exciting events, Valiant’s touring convention crew is charging through from west to east throughout the spring and summer with stops in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and many more along the way:

Thursday, March 2nd – Friday, March 5th Emerald City Comicon Washington State Convention Center Seattle, WA Saturday, March 25th – Sunday, March 26th SC Comicon TD Convention Center Greeneville, SC Friday, March 31st – Sunday, April 2nd WonderCon Anaheim Convention Center Los Angeles, CA Friday, March 31st – Sunday, April 2nd FanExpo Dallas Dallas Convention Center Dallas, TX Saturday, April 15th Fried Pie Con 2nd & Charles Broomfield, CO Friday, April 21st – Sunday, April 23rd C2E2 McCormick Place Chicago, IL Saturday, April 22nd – Sunday, April 23rd L.A. Times Festival of Books University of Southern California Campus Los Angeles, CA Friday, April 28th – Sunday, April 30th Planet Comic Con Bartle Hall Kansas City, MO Friday, May 12th – Sunday, May 14th Comicpalooza George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, TX Saturday, May 13th – Sunday, May 14th Tidewater Comicon Virginia Beach Convention Center Virginia Beach, VA Saturday, May 20th – Sunday, May 21st Five Points Festival Pier 36 New York, NY Thursday, May 25th – Sunday, May 28th Phoenix Comicon Phoenix Convention Center Phoenix, AZ Saturday, June 24th – Sunday, June 25th ID10T Music Festival and Comic Conival Shoreline Amphitheater San Francisco, CA Friday, June 30th – Sunday, July 2nd Denver Comic Con Colorado Convention Center Denver, CO

* Stay tuned for more dates to be announced all year long!*

Next stop: The entire Valiant team is heading to Greenville, SC for SC Comicon 2017! From Saturday, March 25th to Sunday, March 26th, get up close and personal with Valiant’s brightest stars at the TD Convention Center for an action-packed weekend bursting with exclusive releases, special guests, panels, and more! Swing by the Valiant booth all weekend long, and dive into the most acclaimed superhero universe in comics with a complete collection of trade paperbacks and hardcovers featuring Valiant’s critically acclaimed line of titles, including  BLOODSHOT REBORN, BRITANNIA, DIVINITY, FAITH, NINJAK, X-O MANOWAR, and more! Then, prepare for war as Valiant teams up with Greenville’s own Borderlands Comics & Games for the X-O MANOWAR #1 BORDERLANDS EXCLUSIVE VARIANT, featuring the raw pencil artwork of explosive artist and SC Comicon special guest Lewis LaRosa (Bloodshot Reborn)! The year's biggest superhero sci-fi epic begins here with the FIRST ISSUE of the EPIC NEW ONGOING SERIES from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Divinity, Mind MGMT) and Valiant-exclusive rising star Tomas Giorello (Bloodshot Reborn, Batman and Robin) that will push Aric of Dacia beyond the farthest limits of our galaxy…and into the brutal opening salvo of the ultimate X-O Manowar tale ever told! Available only at the Borderlands Comics & Games booth! Plus: Be sure to visit the legion of extraordinary Valiant talent that's storming into SC Comicon all weekend long, including: Meghan Hetrick (Artist, Faith) Lewis LaRosa (Artist, Bloodshot Reborn, Savage) Brian Reber (Colorist, Bloodshot U.S.A., Savage) Rafer Roberts (Writer, A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong, Harbinger Renegade) Robert Venditti (Writer, Wrath of the Eternal Warrior, X-O Manowar) Plus: Valiant is offering portfolio reviews for aspiring artists all weekend long! Have Valiant’s acclaimed editorial team review your work and give you the inside track on what it takes to make it in comics. Individual portfolios reviewed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Then: Celebrate the silver anniversary of Valiant's number-one hero at the VALIANT: 25 YEARS OF X-O MANOWAR panel presentation on Saturday, March 25th! This March, Valiant celebrates 25 years of its most enduring comic book icon as best-selling writer Matt Kindt and a rotating cast of powerhouse interior artists launch a stunning new beginning in the all-new X-O MANOWAR #1! Now, right here at SCCC, join a blockbuster roundtable of Valiant’s greatest talents for an in-depth discussion of X-O Manowar’s landmark place in comics history…and a special look forward at the must-read new series of 2017! Finally: Witness the future that lies ahead for your favorite heroes and antagonists with VALIANT: THE ROAD TO HARBINGER WARS 2 panel presentation on Sunday, March 26th! The road to Valiant’s biggest, most ambitious and most impactful comic book event of all time starts right here at SCCC with a superstar cast of Valiant creators and staff! Jump on board here to find out what the future holds for HARBINGER RENEGADE, X-O MANOWAR, BLOODSHOT, FAITH, DIVINITY, NINJAK, and the rest of Valiant’s most powerful heroes…and how the coming of HARBINGER WARS 2 will soon be felt across the entire Valiant Universe with all-new news and artwork! We’ll see you in the Palmetto State! For more information, visit Valiant on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and ValiantUniverse.com. For Valiant merchandise and more, visit ValiantStore.com