Unity 2000

[Jeff Clem]

Hi - does anyone have any info on any unpublished Unity 2000 beyond the last published issue (#3)? I'm trying to be a Jim Shooter completist (I just recently purchased a Battlestar Galactica comic (from '97 or '98?) at a LCS with a lead 8-page story by Jim for 50 cents! Needless to say, I am not a Battlestar Galactica fan, but Jim's story was cool.

[toddluck]

You found the Battlestar Galactica issue?!?

I'm jealous.

Here's the plots for all the issues:

www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/joe/u2kinfo.asp

I've got pics of issue four's art in a massive zip file and the scripts for 4 and 5 (the script for 6 was never written). All the unpublished art used to be on the net but now it's been taken down . Does anyone have pics of 5 and 6?

If you need anything I got just send me an email.

[Defiant1]

toddluck said:

You found the Battlestar Galactica issue?!?

I'm jealous.

Here's the plots for all the issues:

www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/joe/u2kinfo.asp

I've got pics of issue four's art in a massive zip file and the scripts for 4 and 5 (the script for 6 was never written). All the unpublished art used to be on the net but now it's been taken down . Does anyone have pics of 5 and 6?

If you need anything I got just send me an email.

I should have all of 5 and 6 somewhere. I was missing some art for #4, but I think I snagged it a few months ago. I won't know until I consolidate data more.
I've had about 4 hard drive crashes since I downloaded the files. All the files keep playing musical chairs.

Defiant1

[Jeff Clem]

My e-mail is:
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I would appreciate the scripts and the art to the unpublished stuff; I have nothing (that I know of) to trade, except if I ever see another copy of the Battlestar comic, it's yours. I also have a Defiant videotape (called something like "Inside the Tower" with plotting sessions between Adam Pollina and Jim, Al Weiss talking about War Dancer and the artist for Dark Dominion being given a walking tour of the sewers of NYC), and some other oddball stuff. Just recently picked up a WWF Valiant comics with art by Paul Creddick (sp?) who I hear is Jim Shooter under an alias. Speaking of aliases, I thought I read sometime ago at the Christopher Priest website that another alias of Jim's was "Ken Macdonald", used on an Iron Man annual guest starring a futuristic Iron Man. Anybody know anything about other Shooter aliases or if these are correct?
If you want, send me your e-mail address and I'll let you know more and see if we can work something out. Thanks for the responses.

[Defiant1]

Jeff said:

My e-mail is:
[e-mail]

I would appreciate the scripts and the art to the unpublished stuff; I have nothing (that I know of) to trade, except if I ever see another copy of the Battlestar comic, it's yours. I also have a Defiant videotape (called something like "Inside the Tower" with plotting sessions between Adam Pollina and Jim, Al Weiss talking about War Dancer and the artist for Dark Dominion being given a walking tour of the sewers of NYC), and some other oddball stuff. Just recently picked up a WWF Valiant comics with art by Paul Creddick (sp?) who I hear is Jim Shooter under an alias. Speaking of aliases, I thought I read sometime ago at the Christopher Priest website that another alias of Jim's was "Ken Macdonald", used on an Iron Man annual guest starring a futuristic Iron Man. Anybody know anything about other Shooter aliases or if these are correct?
If you want, send me your e-mail address and I'll let you know more and see if we can work something out. Thanks for the responses.

~IF~ I can find it soon, no trades are necessary. I will pass them along for free since they were available to me free. Eventually they'd be posted anyway in some form or another.

Most of the members here have a copy of the "Inside the Tower" video on DVD.

...and Yes, Paul Creddick is Jim Shooter. He wrote the Unity 2K stories in the back of Shadowman #3 & #4.

Defiant1

[toddluck]

Another fun fact, using that alias Shooter drew the Magnus half of Magnus 5 (it was a flip book with Ria). He also did some work on the Valiant WWF comics under that alias. I think it's the name of his cousin or something like that.

[Jeff Clem]

Jeff said:

My e-mail is:
[e-mail]

Speaking of aliases, I thought I read sometime ago at the Christopher Priest website that another alias of Jim's was "Ken Macdonald", used on an Iron Man annual guest starring a futuristic Iron Man. Anybody know anything about other Shooter aliases or if these are correct?


I did some further research about another Jim Shooter pseudonym - according to Jim Owsley/Christopher Priest, Shooter sometimes wrote under the name of Ken McDonald. Owsley mentions this when talking about Amazing Spider-Man Annual #20, featuring the Iron Man of 2020, not an Iron Man Annual as I mentioned before. Owsley says he ghost-wrote that issue using Shooter's Ken McDonald pen-name. The only time I can remember seeing the Ken McDonald credit, other than the above-mentioned comic, was an issue of one of the Shooter-era New Universe titles. Also, and I'm not real sure of this, but I believe that Shooter may have either written or plotted Web of Spider-Man #22, which is credit-less as published; I may have read that info while perusing the Priest website, but I can't find the item presently. In addition, I noticed the name Laura Hitchcock on some Valiant issues as a writer - was this a psuedonym? If so, who was it? Sorry for all this anal-credit research, but I just like to know these things.

[Defiant1]

Jeff said:

Jeff said:

My e-mail is:
[e-mail]

Speaking of aliases, I thought I read sometime ago at the Christopher Priest website that another alias of Jim's was "Ken Macdonald", used on an Iron Man annual guest starring a futuristic Iron Man. Anybody know anything about other Shooter aliases or if these are correct?


I did some further research about another Jim Shooter pseudonym - according to Jim Owsley/Christopher Priest, Shooter sometimes wrote under the name of Ken McDonald. Owsley mentions this when talking about Amazing Spider-Man Annual #20, featuring the Iron Man of 2020, not an Iron Man Annual as I mentioned before. Owsley says he ghost-wrote that issue using Shooter's Ken McDonald pen-name. The only time I can remember seeing the Ken McDonald credit, other than the above-mentioned comic, was an issue of one of the Shooter-era New Universe titles. Also, and I'm not real sure of this, but I believe that Shooter may have either written or plotted Web of Spider-Man #22, which is credit-less as published; I may have read that info while perusing the Priest website, but I can't find the item presently. In addition, I noticed the name Laura Hitchcock on some Valiant issues as a writer - was this a psuedonym? If so, who was it? Sorry for all this anal-credit research, but I just like to know these things.

Am email was sent. A Laura Hitchcock edited Babylon 5 for DC. Sounds like a real name, but who knows. Michael Netzer drew the Babylon 5 issues. I link to his site now in my General Comics section. He's an excellent artist that learned from Neal Adams and even worked at Continuity Graphics for Neal.

I know very little of Priest's claims. Short of laughing at his nude photography links being mixed with links to his Christian messageboard, I don't really look at what he posts. Overall I'm not a fan of his work.

Defiant1