At C2E2, Valiant Comics held a panel for the comic series “Harbinger Wars 2” (starting May 30th) and other events. They announced the Ninjak vs the Valiant Universe webseries will be released on ComicBook.com from April 21, 2018, and that “The Life and Death of Toyo Harada” comic miniseries will start in March 2019. For more, read our live-tweet of the event.
“Harbinger Wars 2:”
Now at the @ValiantComics Harbinger Wars 2 panel! #C2E2
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
@mattkindt says he hates events but with this he gets to fix everything he hates about event comics.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Beauty of Valiant is that it’s a shared universe. All are idea driven. Driven by the story”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Livewire drops all the US satellites out of the sky and that’s how we begin”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
The story is about government exploitation and Livewire and her people fighting back. All driven by the characters. What’s Ninjak gonna do? Whats X-O gonna do (now that he’s back)?
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
How did X-O’s time on Gorin change him? I’m out of it, then not, then things go to hell, then history repeats itself on Earth
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“This event involves all the major characters in our universe”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
@mattkindt “I had jealousy for the first time when the Ninja-K series started”
“Oh I hope that’s not good”
But it is— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
HW2 Prelude issue comes first. That’s where the satellites drop.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
This @allenraul art is beautiful
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
So is Tomas Giorello
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Tie-ins:I’m not close enough to get pictures
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Quantum and Woody 6 ties in to HW2. Not a direct tie-in. From @EliotRahal and #FrancisPortela
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
X-O 14 is an indirect tie-in as X-O comes back to Earth. Art by @olivetti_ariel
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
@mattkindt talking again about feeling the emotions in writing X-O #14. “Comics are supposed to make ppl feel and this one made me feel as I wrote it. “
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“One of my favorite issues cause the art is so good.”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
X-O is hanging out in the sun or at the bottom of the ocean with some whales
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Continued belowX-O 15 starts an all new story-arc with Aric in the past “Barbarians”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Do we just take four issues off and there be a gap or him tie-in to HW2.” Kindt hates the idea of pointless tie-ins.
Idea for Barbarians came in its Aric in Roman times with themes for HW2
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
If you’re reading both there’s an extra layer and meaning and it’s great
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Bloodshot Salvation:”Working with Trevor Hairsine
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Now onto Bloodshot Salvation 9 from @JeffLemire and @rayfawkes and @RenatoGuedes1
One-shot about Bloodhound
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Similar to the one-shot Lemire did earlier in the series
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
#10 begins arc called Book of Revelations with art by @dougbraithwaite
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Man and his dinosaurs. Dinosaurs make everything better.”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Coming to the year 4001 and Bloodshot meeting up with the Bloodshot of that era with Bloodhound along for the ride
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Ninja-K:”Lemire set this up earlier in 4001 AD tie-ins
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Now onto Ninja-K 6. New arc with art by Juan Jose Ryp called “The Coalition”
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
“Shadowman:”Kindt is the biggest Ninjak fan in the world. Back in the 90s it was his favorite. @dinesh_s gave him a Ninjak ring.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Now onto Shadowman 1 from @andydiggle and @StephenSegovia
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Sold out and 2nd print coming April 25th
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
He’s been off the table for awhile, stuck in the Deadside, Valiant was waiting for the right pitch and here we are.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Second arc starting with issue 4 called “Dead and Gone” with art by @smartinbrough @dougbraithwaite and @RenatoGuedes1
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Shadowman goes back in time and begins to experience the lives of Shadowmen through the years from his grandfather to the 1600s to 40,000 years ago
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Other books:Segovia is coming back with issue 8 for arc 3 called “Rag and Bone” on sale in October
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Valiant is also releasing a new Britannia book in July called Lost Eagles of Rome from Peter Milligan and @RobertGill_Art
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Continued belowThis is what Milligan has been building to.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
You can read about it here: https://t.co/Dxbqp0hWyO
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
The Life and Death of Toyo Harada coming early (April) 2019 from @JoshuaDysart and @officialcafu
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Telling the origins of Harada
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Movies and TV:There’s already preview art wow.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Bloodshot movie in production. Vin Diesel gonna star as Bloodshot. They’ll start filming this summer.
Currently in pre-production— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Ambitious publishing program to be built around Bloodshot for the movie
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Exclusively announced here at #C2E2 the premiere date for Ninjak be the Valiant Universe on April 21
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
They have an exclusive clip. Will premiere over the course of 6 days.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Two clips.
The first of Manowar and Ninjak fightingSecond with Archer and Armstrong. This show looks really good.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Q & A:Archer tries to be the bad cop and it’s hilarious
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
First question: when is Rai coming back. Currently working on developing Rai for a new series.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
HW2 already tracking bigger than the first Harbinger Wars
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
Will we see Archer and Armstrong outside of the show?
We have 6-8 titles we put out every month. Always developing more titles. We’re looking further ahead. We’ll see them again in the future.
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
How will the DMG buyout affect the publishing line?
We got a lot of change but it’s all going to be great. We will keep the same high quality standards. They’re here to support us
— Kevin Gregory @ C2E2 (@kbgregory13) April 6, 2018
