Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

Like suddenly once that first wave of image happened there was this huge wave of that kind of followed it.

And it mild was part of that and it lasted all of three years.

You know.

Valiant is you know checks the fault every once in a while.

Uh and then and obviously we know what happened.

The Dark Horse that was a total disaster.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I remember I I also did some

I w they they had me I was working on their superhero line at one point and they sent me all the

Uh all the

Comics, greatest world comics and then

Not right now.

Like maybe it's not a greatest world.

No nothing personal.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I don't you know, I've turned down I've I could probably count on one hand the projects I've turned down beforehand.

There have been plenty of projects that I agreed to do, and then about issue three or four, I was like, oh, I probably shouldn't have done that.

You know, like like I was a bad fit for G.I.

Joe.

I don't know why I I had just the complex history of comics, as you mentioned earlier, had done two gone through two sellouts or IDW, so they were like, he has the sales pixie dust, which is kind of how a lot of publishers make their decisions.

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