The Virginian Comics Company was created on May 4th, 2009 by Alexander "Lex" Kent shortly after the Virginian government relaxed its control of the economy. He had a roster of both surviving Marvel and DC comics employees, as well as rookies. To preserve paper, they used (and still use) recycled paper. Though the comics were shipped by normal Virginian postal worker in the developed part of the country, they have to resort to a more "Pony Express" system to get the comics to the less developed parts of the country and the other nations that subscribe to them. They have gained readers in quite a few nations outside of the region as well. The comics are published with an old printing press found in an old abandoned newspaper office in East Virginia.