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Jim Shooter on "Unity 2000". I had the good fortune of speaking to Jim Shooter on the night of July 12, 1999, the same day as Acclaim's press release that Jim Shooter was to write "Unity 2000". Here is the interview. So did they approach you with the story for Unity?
It was conceived by Valiant's Editor-in-Chief, Jim Shooter, who wanted to revolutionize the crossover concept in comics. The story was serialized in all nine of the Valiant Universe comic book titles published from August to September 1992 and set up several spin-off titles. [1]
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Unity 2000 is an event mini-series published by Acclaim Comics beginning in 1999. It was written by Jim Shooter with art by Jim Starlin. The series was planned to last for six issues, but only three were ever published, and the story remains permanently unfinished, however, Shooter has made the complete script available online in the meantime.[1]
A prelude story to the event, The Valiant Deaths of Jack Boniface, was published as two backup stories and double issue flipbooks with Shadowman (Volume 3) #3 and Shadowman (Volume 3) #4. This prelude established the concept of the Valiant Universe Multiverse and let Jim Shooter kill off (multiple versions of) Jack Boniface as predicted during the original Unity event (1992). The main story would then re-introduce the original versions of many characters, even the ones that were not created by Shooter; e.g. Bloodshot and Ivar, Timewalker.
Prelude
•The Valiant Deaths of Jack Boniface: Alpha •The Valiant Deaths of Jack Boniface: Omega •Unity 2000 Preview Book (ashcan of "Alpha")
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•Unity
•Unity (Valiant Comics)
•Unity 2000 (Acclaim Comics)
•Unity (Volume 2) (Valiant Entertainment)
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1.↑ Shooter's work - Valiant Comics: Unity (the link to the pdf file is at the bottom of the page)
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Unity 2000 is the name of a six-issue series of comics by Acclaim, written by Jim Shooter, and pencilled by Jim Starlin starting in 1999. Mr. Shooter was hired by Acclaim to write this 6-issue series only, his first story with Valiant characters since 1992.
Titled Unity 2000, Shooter was somehow going to bring the continuity of VH1 and VH2 together. A preview issue and the first three issues were published before Acclaim abandoned all hope and ceased publication. A pdf of the six-issue Unity 2000 plot is available for download .
Shooter returned to Valiant, by now called Acclaim Comics, briefly in 1999 to write Unity 2000 (an attempt to combine and revitalize the older and newer Valiant Universes) but Acclaim went out of business after the completion of only three of the planned six issues.
Unity 2000 is the name of an Acclaim mini-series, which was written in the year of 1999 by Jim Shooter, penciled by Jim Starlin, and originally slated to run for six issues. This miniseries was Shooter's first story with Valiant characters since being fired from the company in the year of 1992.
