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Weird news from BleedingCool, I discovered it just today:

"Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported how today's Valen The Outcast Joe Jusko 1-200 cover variant was rather… limited. That only 25 were going to qualifying stores who ordered the required amount. And that the rest of the 500 print run would be burned.

Some people thought that was a joke. Well, yesterday, they actually did it. Here we have writer Michael Alan Nelson, Steve Niles and Boom! staffers setting the remaining print run on fire.

Yup, a good old fashioned book burning. And with each flame licking along the stapled edges, those remaining 25 copies get more and more scarce"

here's a video of Michael Alan Nelson burning copies of "Valen the Outcast" #1:

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It makes a strange effect recognizing my pages while they're burning.... sigh!

Teo
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:iconmatteoscalera:
*MatteoScalera Dec 14, 2011  Professional General Artist
well, I think the reason wasn't the storage thing, I just think it was done to increase the books value.
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~OrangePickles Dec 7, 2011  Student Digital Artist
I would be so fucking insulted if I worked on that book. I'm pretty much insulted right now.
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:iconmatteoscalera:
*MatteoScalera Dec 14, 2011  Professional General Artist
dunno, I think it's just business thing.
Even beacuse the guy who's burning them is the writer of this series, eheheh
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=KreepingSpawn Dec 7, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
WTF.

You know... this makes me now NOT want the variant on principle. ;p
Better yet, I can claim one of the issues they burned as "mine."
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:iconmatteoscalera:
*MatteoScalera Dec 14, 2011  Professional General Artist
ahahahah well said, man!
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:iconkreepingspawn:
=KreepingSpawn Dec 14, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
:lmao:
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~marvelleftw Dec 7, 2011  Professional General Artist
So many good comments already, my points were made. Peace Matteo!
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:iconmatteoscalera:
*MatteoScalera Dec 14, 2011  Professional General Artist
Peace, mate!
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~DarkBrainComics Dec 7, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Worthless video - they didn't even explain why they were doing it at the start. And this is not a normal book burning, this wasn't about censorship, but rather marketing.

They could have saved money by going to ka-blam and ordering only 25 copies.
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:iconmatteoscalera:
*MatteoScalera Dec 14, 2011  Professional General Artist
yeah, I think it was just marketing.
The fact is that they heve to print copies way prior to the orders, os sometimes they've got to risk.
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