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Also, speaking of Jim Shooter, the case of Valiant is pretty educational as well.

Shooter basically helped create Valiant after getting booted out of Marvel, and his editorial-heavy, pre-planned narrative philosophy helped the company turn out some critically-acclaimed titles that really wowed a jaded audience at a time when half a dozen other newly-formed comic companies were fighting each other for a piece of the pie in the shadow of the Big Two. Then his business partners forced him out of the company so they could sell it off at a huge profit to a video game company (which wanted to exploit the iconic characters to make video games), at which point the comics mostly turned to shit, and the brand as a whole slowly died off.

About 15 years later, other passionate comic fans acquired the rights to the brand and its characters, and restarted the line. By relying on a strong editorial model, the company produced a number of critically-acclaimed titles that really wowed a jaded and dying audience at a time when a handful of other smaller independent comic companies were fighting each other for a piece of the pie in the shadow of the Big Two. Fans finally started to be hopeful that Valiant would finally achieve the potential it had originally had before everything went to shit.

Then the current owners sold the brand off at a huge profit to a to a Chinese film production company (which wanted to exploit the iconic characters to make movies), at which point current fans have started to say they can see the comics beginning to turn to shit, and are starting to worry that the brand as a whole is going to slowly die off. Again.


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