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Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!



The Valiant Universe began in 1989 as the brainchild of Jim Shooter, former EIC of Marvel Comics. Valiant started as a combination of licensed characters from Gold Key and original characters. The universe tried to be more realistic in tone than the Big 2 and the titles were much more interconnected. The company introduced a lot concepts, both in publishing and storytelling, that are still in use today. Eventually after an initial massive success and inner turmoil, as is often the way these things go, the company was sold to Acclaim just a few years after forming. This lead to several titles getting video game adaptations which was a big deal at the time. Turok especially is probably remembered more for the video game series than it is for the comics. The Valiant universe as it existed then eventually burned out and was remembered as a niche cornerstone of '90s comics, both for good and bad reasons.

The original holdings of the company were acquired by Jason Kothari and Dinesh Shamdasani in 2005 and they decided to start building the company again from the ground up. Gone were the licensed characters such as Magnus, Solar, and Turok. They decided instead to focus on the fully owned characters that the company had made through the years. They slowly laid the groundwork and planned to bring the company back small at first and focus on quality stories from strong creative teams rather than bombard an already overcrowded market right out of the gate.

They decided the Summer of 2012 was finally the time bring Valiant back. They did so with critically acclaimed titles such as X-O Manowar (their flagship character), Bloodshot, Harbinger, and Archer & Armstrong. Later that year they added the popular Shadowman to the lineup. After only a few short months they had already built up a small but powerful reputation among comic fans and all of their comics to this point had been met with great critical acclaim.

During the next two years they brought back huge fan favorite title Quantum and Woody as well as greatly expanded and changed up the creative direction of Bloodshot and X-O Manowar. Bloodshot crossed over heavily with Harbinger as the Harbinger Wars storyline played out and then expanded into a full fledged team book with H.A.R.D. Corps for a time. X-O Manowar expanded outward and became more of a cosmic book as it dealt with off planet happenings and built towards the Armor Hunters storyline, the first big story that crossed over almost all of the Valiant Universe. The Eternal Warrior spun out of Archer & Armstrong into his own title and eventually joined the ranks of Valiant's first super team Unity, along with Ninjak and Livewire from Harbinger.

During this time Valiant started taking more opportunities to introduce characters both new and old. Including familiar names like Rai, Dr. Mirage (a whole new version of a previously existing character), The Timewalker Ivar, and Divinity. Divinity is the first all new character to get his own title under this incarnation of Valiant.

Through all this expansion Valiant has been careful to not overload the stands with books. Most weeks will see Valiant only put out two or three titles at most. Even after nothing but success after success for the last three years the company is still determined to put out high quality books not a high quantity of books.

Though new titles have come along older ones have ceased. Harbinger, Bloodshot, and Archer & Armstrong all stopped after 25 issues. Other titles spun off these such as Ivar, Timewalker and Imperium. Bloodshot went through a game changing and character re-defining event in the series The Valiant. The new series, Bloodshot Reborn, sees an almost complete reinvention of the character. Several of the books that have stopped are primed for new volumes though. With Eternal Warrior, Harbinger, and Archer & Armstrong all looking to have new books in the coming months.


Current Titles

Britannia: We Who Are About To Die

Fifty thousand Romans stand on their feet, watching from the rafters of the Coliseum with captured breath as Achillia, a gladiator unlike any that Rome has seen before, faces incredible odds – one lone warrior against five of Rome’s greatest. Such is the tradition, when a female gladiator enters the fray. When the carnage is complete, the coliseum roars its approval as Achillia stands victorious. Now, only one match away from winning her freedom, she has begun to gain renown. The women of Rome, suppressed by their husbands and fathers, have noticed. The men of Rome, husbands and fathers to a growing horde of women entertaining ideas of independence, have noticed as well. On the other side of Rome, a strange mystery swirls through the Palatine Hill. In the dead of night, down winding alleys, Rome’s elite swear that they see visions of a blood-soaked Apollo walking the city…visions that are driving them mad. Even more are becoming sick with weird fever god-dreams. Panic ensues in the city. The Chief Vestal, Rubria, is arrested by Emperor Nero and threatened with crucifixion unless the deadly curse that’s fallen on Rome is lifted. She asks Antonius Axia, hero of Britannia and Rome’s only detective, for help. She offers only one clue…the gladiator Achillia.
Britannia: We Who Are About To Die #1

Harbinger Renegade

Six months ago, a secret team of renegade whistleblowers leaked the existence of these extraordinarily dangerous individuals to a stunned world. Today, all across the country, crude, DIY psiot activation attempts have left hundreds brain damaged…or worse. The emergence of a new psiot in a community often leads to riots and mass violence. Gun sales are through the roof. America is terrified of what could happen next. With this revolutionary upheaval now in motion, Kris Hathaway, John “Torque” Torkelson, Faith “Zephyr” Herbert, and Peter Stanchek are about to discover their calling. Together, the HARBINGER RENEGADES are moving from town to town, building their ranks, and subverting authority one mind at a time…and setting out to prove once and for all that behind their power, there has always been a purpose.
Harbinger Renegade #1-4

Rapture

On a scarred landscape, two otherworldly armies prepare to battle one last time, vying for control of a massive tower named from an ancient language no longer permitted to be spoken. One army is led by a primeval force named Babel, whose goal is singular: to breach “Heaven” no matter the cost. The only thing standing in his way is a gray-haired barbaric warrior, filled with rage and regret, a man who sees this battle as his last chance for redemption. But he knows his depleted forces have little chance of victory unless aid comes. Enter Tama: A 12-year old girl on the crest of a hill overlooking the battle, who has just become humanity’s only hope. The last in an ancient line of mystics who protect the Earth, she has foreseen this battle and knows millions will perish if she’s unable to stop it. Now Tama and her ragtag team of malcontents – Ninjak, Shadowman and Punk Mambo – must somehow defeat an elder god hell bent on piercing the heavens.
Rapture #1

X-O Manowar (v2)

Now, far from home on a strange and primitive new world, Aric has begun a new life. Liberated from his past, he tends to his crops. Free from war. Free from violence. Free from the armor.
But the machinery of death marches his way once again. Conscripted into an alien army and thrown into an unforgiving conflict, the fury inside him finds voice as he is forced to embrace the armor once more. With it, he will decimate armies, topple empires and incite interplanetary warfare as he rises from SOLDIER to GENERAL to EMPEROR to VISIGOTH. They wanted a weapon. He will give them war!
X-O Manowar #1-3


Previous Titles

4001 AD

At the dawn of the 41st century, Rai is about to inherit the dark truth behind the origin of his kind…and discover the sinister secret at the heart of Father’s existence. For New Japan to live, Earth must die…and as Rai challenges his former master for the first time in more than a millennium, the lone guardian of New Japan will be cast out of his own Father’s kingdom. Exiled from the only realm he’s ever known, Rai now walks the ravaged world of 4001 A.D. in search of forgotten heroes like himself… on a mission to collect the last surviving legends of a broken planet…and to forge a rebellion with the power to bring the most advanced civilization in history crashing back down to Earth.
4001 AD #1-4, 4001 AD X-O Manowar #1, 4001 AD Bloodshot #1, 4001 AD Shadowman#1, 4001 AD War Mother #1

Archer & Armstrong

After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family’s sect – locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he’ll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past’s greatest threat!
Archer & Armstrong #0-25, Archer & Armstrong: Archer #0, Archer & Armstrong: The One Percent #1

A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong

Meet Armstrong: Since the ancient city of Ur, this immortal adventurer has spent the last 7,000 years drinking and carousing his way through history alongside some of the greatest merrymakers the world has ever known.
Meet Archer: A sheltered teenage martial arts master and expert marksman that was raised for a single purpose – to kill the devil incarnate. Little did he know that this undying evil was actually Armstrong (he’s actually a pretty good guy…once you get to know him) and, since hitting the road together, the two have become great friends and even better partners.
Now: Archer is about to set off on his most dangerous mission yet – a quest into the mystic reaches of Armstrong’s bottomless satchel to liberate his friend and comrade from the clutches of the mad god Bacchus!
A&A #1-12

Armor Hunters

When Aric of Dacia returned to Earth with the stolen X-O Manowar armor of an alien race, he thought he finally found a weapon to guard the peace and kingdom he’d struggled so long to secure. But now, a relentless and surgical strike team from the farthest reaches of space – sworn to exterminate the armor and all like it – have found their final target. The ARMOR HUNTERS are coming. They will hunt. They will trap. They will kill. And they will rid the universe of the X-O Manowar’s incalculable destructive power…even if it means taking the Earth with it.
Armor Hunters #1-4, Armor Hunters: Bloodshot #1-3, Armor Hunters: Harbinger #1-3, Armor Hunters: Aftermath (Tie-ins: Unity #8-11, X-O Manowar #26-29)

Bloodshot

Your name is Angelo Mortalli. Your brother is trapped behind enemy lines and on the verge of — no. That’s not right. Your name is Raymond Garrison. You’ve retired from the dangers of the field, but a desperate plea from your oldest friend plunges you into a vicious firefight that — no. That’s not right, either. You are Bloodshot. You are the shade of gray that freedom requires. The perfect confluence of military necessity and cutting-edge technology. A walking WikiLeaks. A reservoir of dirty secrets that could set the world on fire. And you’ve just been captured.
Bloodshot #0-13, Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #0, #14-23, Bloodshot #24-25

Bloodshot Reborn

Bloodshot’s nanites made him a nearly unstoppable killing machine. His enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and healing made him the perfect weapon, and he served his masters at Project Rising Spirit – a private contractor trafficking in violence – very well. Now, Bloodshot is a shadow of his former self. He lives in self-imposed exile, reeling from the consequences of his past life and the recent events that nearly drove him mad. But when a rash of shootings by gunmen who appear to look just like Bloodshot begin, his guilt will send him on a mission to stop the killers, even if it means diving headlong into the violence that nearly destroyed him.
Bloodshot Reborn #1-18, Bloodshot Reborn Annual 2016, Bloodshot Reborn #0

Bloodshot USA

Project Rising Spirit – America’s greatest exporter of classified weapons technology – has achieved a breakthrough: a contagious, airborne nanite dispersion prototype that can turn the population of any city into an army of indestructible soldiers. A doomsday virus capable of destroying an enemy nation from the inside out. A machine-made pathogen that can completely rewrite human physiology…and hardcode every man, woman, and child with the same cutting-edge technology that created their greatest weapon: Bloodshot. But now…Project Rising Spirit’s top-secret contagion has been released onto the streets of America’s greatest metropolis: New York City. As mayhem engulfs Manhattan, Bloodshot must lead the most dangerous invasion ever waged on American soil and keep a runaway pandemic from toppling armies and governments…and threatening to destroy humanity itself.
Bloodshot USA #1-4

Book of Death

The Valiant heroes. X-O Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is how they lived. This is how they died. Now we know. The Book of the Geomancer has recorded it all. But only a young girl – the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who protect the Earth known as Geomancers – has seen this future come to pass, from the coming cataclysm to the dawn of the 41st century. Alone with her sworn protector, the Eternal Warrior – a soldier battle-forged across five thousand years of combat – the duo must defy their allies to stop the Dark Age that now threatens to eclipse our world. Together, they are the number one target of every hero and villain on Earth. Either the Eternal Warrior hands her over…or they take him down. But can even he single-handedly protect one child when the entire Valiant Universe wages war against him?
Book of Death #1-4, Book of Death: Legends of the Geomancer #1-4, Book of Death: Fall of Bloodshot #1, Book of Death: Fall of Harbinger #1, Book of Death: Fall of Ninjak #1, Book of Death: Fall of X-O Manowar #1

Britannia

Ruled by the Fates. Manipulated by the Gods. Commanded by Caesar. In the year 65 A.D., one’s destiny was not his own. At the height of Nero’s reign, a veteran of Rome’s imperial war machine has been dispatched to the farthest reaches of the colonies to investigate unnatural happenings… In the remote outpost of Britannia, Antonius Axia – the First Detective – will become Rome’s only hope to reassert control over the empire’s most barbaric frontier…and keep the monsters that bridge the line between myth and mystery at bay…
Britannia #1-4

Dead Drop

There is a secret black market in New York. It is hidden in plain sight – in our streets, trains, restaurants. Those who know how to navigate it exchange secrets of extraordinary nature. But when the secret in circulation is a biological weapon derived from Vine technology, the gloves are off – and the most extraordinary agents are released to stop the disaster before it occurs. Otherwise, in less than thirty minutes, there will be no world to come back to. X-O Manowar, Archer, Neville Alcott, Detective Cejudo and Betamax are ready to save the world.
Dead Drop #1-4

The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage

Doctor Mirage talks to the dead…but the only spirit Shan Fong can’t find is that of her late husband, Hwen. Instead, America’s favorite semi-retired paranormal investigator is haunted and raw, using her gift to solve homicides and bring peace to the recently bereaved. But when a big-time occultist with a classified military past hires her for a special job, Shan discovers a lead that might close the greatest mystery she’s ever tackled – how to get Hwen back. Now, Doctor Mirage must enter the undiscovered country and cross all the realms of the underworld, if she has any hope of rescuing the man she loves…or be forever lost beyond the earthly plane.
The Death Defying Dr. Mirage #1-5

The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage: Second Lives

Occult investigators Shan and Hwen Mirage lived their lives in the thrall of an epic love that few will ever have…until Hwen died tragically before his time. Now, after a perilous trip through the underworld, Shan and Hwen are reunited…but Hwen is still an intangible spirit of the dead – incapable of opening a spellbook or even touching his wife. Their options exhausted, the death-defying Doctors Mirage are about to enact a dangerous spell to restore Hwen’s solid form…and grant his ghost a second life. But, in the wrong hands, their ancient rite will become a tool of terror – and unleash a force of pure, homicidal evil that lusts for the murder of the living and the dead alike… a torturous death that obliterates not just everything a person ever had in this world, but everything their ghost will be in the next!
The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage: Second Lives #1-4

The Delinquents

Quantum and Woody are the world’s worst superhero team. Archer & Armstrong are a mismatched pair of conspiracy-busting adventurers. When a mysterious force collides these ill-suited and irresponsible “heroes” for a cross-country race through the darkest corners of American mythology, all hell is bound to break loose. Can two busted pairs become four of a kind in time to defeat the Hobo King, save the day, and make it back home in time for happy hour? Let’s hope so…’cause these guys make a really, really bad team. (And you don’t even want to know about the goat.)
The Delinquents #1-4

Divinity

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union – determined to win the Space Race at any cost – green lit a dangerously advanced mission. They sent a man farther into the cosmos than anyone has gone before or since. Lost in the stars, he encountered something unknown. Something that…changed him. Long thought lost and erased from the history books, he has suddenly returned, crash-landing in the Australian Outback. The few that have been able to reach him believe him to be a deity -– one who turned the scorched desert into a lush oasis. They say he can bend matter, space, and even time to his will. Earth is about to meet a new god. And he’s a communist. How long can it be before the first confrontation between mankind and DIVINITY begins?
Divinity #1-4

Divinity II

Long thought lost and erased from the history books, Abram Adams was the first to return, crash-landing in the Australian Outback. The few that have been able to reach him believe him to be a deity. They say he can bend matter, space, and even time to his will. But, even with seemingly limitless power at his fingertips, he is concerned only with the secret love he hid away from his superiors and the unborn child he never had a chance to meet. Now, Miska, the female co-pilot of the group, has also returned to Earth… but, unlike Abram she had no secret family. Unlike Abram, she still believes in the Communist ideal. And, unlike Abram, she intends to play a very real role in the return of Soviet glory.
Divinity II #1-4

Divinity III: Stalinverse

Welcome to the year 2017…where the Soviet Union has spent decades as the world’s reigning superpower and the Iron Curtain now encircles a planet riddled with war, strife, and oppression. Freedom is a thing of the past in the Stalinverse… So why can’t Russian intelligence officer Colin King shake the feeling that something has gone terribly wrong? He’ll put his freedom and life on the line to uncover the truth… Even if that means finding out whatever happened to the long-missing cosmonaut Abram Adams – the one man who just might hold the key to unraveling the dystopian world of today…
Divinity III: Stalinverse #1-4, Divinity III: Komandar Bloodshot #1, Divinity III: Aric Son of the Revolution #1, Divinity III: Shadowman and The Battle of New Stalingrad #1, Divinity III: Escape From Gulag 396 #1

Eternal Warrior

Across ten millennia and a thousand battlefields, Gilad Anni-Padda has traversed the darkest, most mysterious corners of history. But the horror and bloodshed of constant warfare has finally taken its toll on the man myth calls the Eternal Warrior…and he has abdicated his duties as the Fist and the Steel of Earth for a quiet life of seclusion. But when a blood vendetta from the distant past suddenly reappears in the modern day, he must decide if he will return to the ways of war…for the child who betrayed him thousands of years ago…
Eternal Warrior #1-8, Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel #1-3

Eternal Warrior: Awakening

On the brink of carving out victory in the most violent battle of his life, Gilad Anni-Padda suffers a devastating injury. He awakens weeks later in a strange land, nursed back to health but with no memory of his past. A tribe has shown him compassion in an age of cruelty, and he will return their gift in kind. Now the real violence will begin…
Eternal Warrior: Awakening #1

Faith (Limited Series)

Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert – a psionically gifted “psiot” discovered by the Harbinger Foundation – has always aspired to greatness. But now this once-ordinary teenager is taking control of her destiny and becoming the hard-hitting hero she’s always known she can be – complete with a mild-mannered secret identity, unsuspecting colleagues, and a day job as a reporter that routinely throws her into harm’s way! Well, at least she thought it would… When she’s not typing up listicles about cat videos, Faith makes a secret transformation to patrol the night as the City of Angels’ own leading superhero – the sky-soaring Zephyr!
Faith #1-4

Faith (Ongoing Series)

In a city under siege by robots, aliens, monsters and even worse… celebrities, there is only one woman the people of Los Angeles can count on: the stratospheric superhero called Faith! Aspiring reporter by day and dedicated crime-fighter by night, Faith has tackled every obstacle in her path with confidence – like those crushing deadlines at work, the long-distance boyfriend half a world away, and the missing back issues that plague her comics collection! But, unbeknownst to her, Faith is about to collide with the one force she never saw coming: an up-and-coming super-villain bent on snuffing her out once and for all! But who is lurking behind the mask of her new foe…and could they just be the one person capable of rendering Faith powerless?
Faith #1-12

Generation Zero

If you have a problem… If your parents won’t help… And if your cause is worthy… Log onto network #ZERO…because Generation Zero is listening. Years ago, the children of the experimental strike team known as Generation Zero were taken from their families by Project Rising Spirit, a private weapons contractor, and raised to be psychic soldiers. After years of taking orders, they have fought for and won their freedom. Now, the world’s most wanted teenagers have pledged to protect each other tooth and claw, while using their extraordinary abilities to right wrongs for a generation without a future… To fight for kids, just like them. One of those kids is Keisha Sherman, whose boyfriend just turned up dead after a suspicious car crash in Rook, Michigan – a newly booming tech town that sprang from rags to super-riches seemingly overnight. When Keisha makes a desperate plea into her webcam, the local high school suddenly finds itself with several unusual new students… But as word of Generation Zero’s presence spreads rapidly through the halls, this volatile band of teenage upstarts is about to discover that they’re far from the most extraordinary thing lurking behind Rook’s stainless-steel facade…
Generation Zero #1-9

Harbinger

Super-powered teenager Peter Stanchek is on a dangerous path. Skipping across the country in a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, Peter is quickly realizing that he’s a psionically-charged “harbinger” with the potential to reshape the course of human history. But Peter’s plight has not gone unnoticed. Respected philanthropist and fellow harbinger Toyo Harada is about to offer Peter the chance at the things for which the boy has always longed — family, inner peace, self-control — and induct him into the sprawling, secret network of conspiracy and subversion known as the Harbinger Foundation. Now Peter begins his long road towards a destiny that will shake the very foundations of the Valiant Universe. His first lesson? All power comes with a price.
Harbinger #0-25, Harbinger: Bleeding Monk #0, Harbinger: Omegas #1-3, Harbinger: Faith #0

Harbinger Wars

For decades, Toyo Harada’s Harbinger Foundation and the government’s own Project Rising Spirit have been waging a secret war over the rarest resource known to man – the unwieldy superhuman telekinetics known as harbingers. Over the years, they’ve each collected a small army of these empowered children to inflict their agendas on the world. But now the reformed harbinger hunter known as Bloodshot needs to atone for his crimes – and he’s going to start by releasing two dozen of the most volatile harbingers from their PRS prison and into the world.
Harbinger Wars #1-4 (Tie-ins: Bloodshot #10-13, Harbinger #11-14)

Immortal Brothers: The Tale of the Green Knight

It’s winter at King Arthur’s court in Camelot! The monstrous Green Knight has appeared before the Round Table with no armor, a gigantic axe, and a challenge. He has come to insist that the weaker knights participate in a friendly “winter’s game” where anyone can strike him once with his axe, but on one condition: That the Green Knight can return the exact blow in one year’s time. King Arthur has agreed to face the mysterious knight himself, but the Round Table’s youthful and most gallant champion, Sir Gilad, takes up the challenge to protect his king. Much to the court’s surprise, the Green Knight doesn’t flinch as his head is struck clean off…only to pick it up himself and warn Gilad that he is fated to receive the same blow before the year is out. Now, Gilad – the Eternal Warrior – must solve the mystery of who the Green Knight is before his hour at the axe comes to pass! But first, he’ll need to find some help…in the form of his own immortal brothers – Armstrong and Ivar – who shall be united once more!
Immortal Brothers: The Tale of the Green Knight #1

Imperium

Toyo Harada is the most dangerous human being on the planet. Imbued with incredible powers of the mind, he has spent his life guiding humanity from the shadows. But today he is a wanted man. His powers are public knowledge, his allies have turned to enemies, and he is hunted by every government on the planet. Instead of surrendering, Harada has one last unthinkable gambit to play: to achieve more, faster, and with less, he will build a coalition of the powerful, the unscrupulous and the insane. No longer content to demand a better future, he will recruit a violent legion from the darkest corners of the Earth to fight for it. The battle for utopia begins now.
Imperium #1-16

Ivar, Timewalker

At this very moment in Geneva, Switzerland, history is being made. A thousand meters underground inside the Large Hadron Collider, researcher Neela Sethi is about to discover time travel – and jeopardize her life in the process. But she doesn’t know that yet. Ten minutes from now, every deadbeat chrononaut, wannabe conqueror, and misguided protector of the timestream will be banging down her door. Good thing that the legendary Ivar, Timewalker, got there first…right? Now it’s down to history’s most jaded, most tempestuous time traveler to stop the worst of everything that is, was, and will be…before time runs out!
Ivar, Timewalker #1-12

Ninjak

For the first time, Ninjak’s past and future collide in the pages of an all-new ongoing series! Then: Meet inexperienced MI-6 recruit Colin King on his first mission in the field as he learns the basics of spycraft and counterintelligence, and develops a volatile relationship with his first handler. Now: Colin King is Ninjak, the world’s foremost intelligence operative, weapons expert, and master assassin. And he’s hunting the Shadow Seven – a secret cabal of shinobi masters with mysterious ties to his training and tragic past.
Ninjak #1-27

Punk Mambo

From a posh girls’ boarding school, to the slimy gutter of the London punk scene, to sniffing voodoo glue in a Louisiana swamp…how did the Punk Mambo haul herself from the upper crust to the backwater? Now, Punk Mambo is about to head back home to spread some much-needed anarchy in the UK! The punks and the voodoo priests she used to know have cleaned themselves up, and she’s a loud, belching ghost from their past, come to break in the new furniture…and break some faces!
Punk Mambo #0

Quantum and Woody

Once upon a time, Eric and Woody Henderson were inseparable. Adopted brothers. Best friends. Brilliant minds. Years later, they are estranged siblings, petty rivals, and washed-up failures. But when their father’s murder leads them into the throes of a life-altering scientific accident, Eric and Woody will find themselves with a whole new purpose – and a perfectly legitimate reason to wear costumes and fight crime. Go big or go home, folks! Quantum and Woody are coming!
Quantum and Woody #1-12, Quantum and Woody: Goat #0, Valiant-Sized Quantum & Woody #1, Quantum & Woody Must Die #1-4

Rai

The year is 4001 A.D. – led by the artificial intelligence called “Father,” the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Pacific and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father’s empire – the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere. They say he is a spirit…the ghost of Japan. But when the first murder in a thousand years threatens to topple Father’s benevolent reign, Rai will be forced to confront the true face of a nation transformed…and his own long-lost humanity…
Rai #1-16

Rai: The History of the Valiant Universe

Rai, the spirit guardian of Earth, has uncovered an ancient tome filled with history’s greatest tales and civilizations darkest moments. Charting the dawning days of ancient Mesopotamia, all the way to the rise of New Japan, the history of the Valiant Universe is laid bare in shocking and revelatory detail. From X-O Manowar to Bloodshot to Faith to Divinity…history will reveal untold revelations for Valiant’s greatest heroes and antagonists!
Rai: The History of the Valiant Universe #1

Savage

Fifteen years ago, the world’s most famous soccer star and his former supermodel wife –pregnant with their unborn child – disappeared without a trace. The world believes they are dead… But, in reality, their private jet crash-landed on a mysterious, unknown island ruled by by prehistoric creatures from another time… This is the story of how they lost their humanity.
Savage #1-4

Shadowman

There are a million dreams in the Big Easy. But now its worst nightmare is about to come true. As the forces of darkness prepare to claim New Orleans as their own, Jack Boniface must accept the legacy he was born to uphold. As Shadowman, Jack is about to become the only thing that stands between his city and an army of unspeakable monstrosities from beyond the night. But what is the true cost of the Shadowman’s otherworldly power? And can Jack master his new abilities before Master Darque brings down the wall between reality and the otherwordly dimension known only as the Deadside?
Shadowman #0-16, Shadowman: End Times #1-3

Unity

To kill a king… he has created an army. The world’s most dangerous man, Toyo Harada, has been struck by the one thing he never thought possible – fear. Halfway across the globe, a new power threatens to topple modern civilization and, to preempt the cataclysm that is to come, Harada will unite the most lethal, most volatile, most unforgiving team the world has ever known – UNITY. Their mission: defeat the warrior king armed with the universe’s most powerful weapon. Kill X-O Manowar!
Unity #0-25

The Valiant

The Eternal Warrior has protected the Earth for more than 10,000 years. A master of countless weapons and long forgotten martial arts, he is guided by the Geomancers – those who speak for the Earth. During his long watch, the Eternal Warrior has failed three times. Each time, the Geomancer was killed…and a new dark age for humanity began. Each time, he was unable to stop The Immortal Enemy – a monstrous force of nature. A civilization killer. A horror that appears differently each time it arrives…and whose seemingly only purpose is to bring disorder and darkness to the world. Now, the time has come for The Immortal Enemy to return once more. But, this time, the Eternal Warrior will be ready. This time, he has a force greater than any single warrior. This time, he has…THE VALIANT.
The Valiant #1-4

Valiant High

Taking place outside of Valiant's standard continuity, Valiant High is packed with never-before-seen incarnations of the greatest icons from the largest independent superhero universe in comics – including Archer & Armstrong, the Death-Defying Dr. Mirage, the Eternal Warrior, Toyo Harada, Kris Hathaway, Peter Stanchek, Quantum and Woody, and many more. You've never seen the heroes of the Valiant Universe quite like this before!
Valiant High #1-4

Wrath of the Eternal Warrior

For five millennia, the Eternal Warrior has shaped history at the end of his sword. He’s razed empires, toppled civilizations, and broken armies as an immortal soldier in service to the Earth. But now, the Eternal Warrior has been torn from the world he once protected and finds himself stranded in a hostile alien landscape unlike any he’s faced before. Separated from his earthly environs, can history’s deadliest soldier survive a realm far older, far deadlier, and fare more ruinous than anything he’s ever encountered? Beyond Earth lies eternity…
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior #1-14

X-O Manowar (v1)

Born into battle, Aric of Dacia — heir to the throne of the Visigoth people — has never known peace. After a brutal encounter with a mysterious enemy known as The Vine leaves him a prisoner on an alien world, the only hope Aric has of returning to his family and saving them from slavery is to seize armored suit capable of incalculable destruction and become X-O Manowar! The Vine destroyed Aric's world. Now he will give them war.
X-O Manowar #0-50, X-O Manowar: 25th Anniversary Special #1, X-O Manowar: Commander Trill #, X-O Manowar Annual 2016

X-O fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jun 15, 2017

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X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Coming Soon

Secret Weapons
6/28/17


Bloodshot's Day Off
7/5/17


Faith and The Future Force
7/26/17


War Mother
8/17


Bloodshot Salvation
9/17


Eternity
10/17


Ninja-K
11/17


Quantum & Woody
12/17


Psi-Lords
2017


Harbiner Wars 2
2018


Shadowman
3/28/18


Reading Order
Coming Soon


Previous Thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3489235

X-O fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jun 15, 2017

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Yeah, that unified feel is helped by the fact that by and large it's down to five guys that are pretty much writing everything. Venditti, Dysart, Kindt, Lemire, and Van Lente have pretty much built the Valiant Universe as it exists. There's been other writers such as Van Meter, Milligan, Swierczynski, and Pak as well but the majority of the world building and connective tissue of the universe has been established by a very small crew.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Teenage Fansub posted:

How was the last Dr Mirage series?

I thought it was a much better introduction to the supernatural elements of the universe than Shadowman was. It doesn't hurt that Shan is immediately a much more interesting character than either Jack Boniface or Punk Mambo. Plus where Shadowman was more about legacy up front Shan's story and background is much more relatable which helps you understand more why the character is like the way she is. I very much enjoyed Van Meter's take on it and can't wait for the followup mini.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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zoux posted:

2 questions:

Harada is an old man but appears young. Is that a physical thing he's doing to himself or is he just altering people's perceptions so that they see him as young? I know that he looks old as gently caress when he has to do his 2 week sleep.

I'm only in the 3rd trade so it may come up later but, what does XO stand for?

X-O stands for Executive Officer. Which is explained later.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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zoux posted:

OK, I was just confused when one of the Vine generals was like "READY YOUR XO CORPS" and it reminded me that I didn't know what it stood for.

That's a bit of a different thing. The X-O Manowar name is given to Aric by the American military.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Unity 23 & 24 will be a two issue arc that wraps up some dangling plot threads from the Armor Hunters storyline and involves some of the Armor Hunters that survived in space coming back for GIN-GR. Then the series will wrap with a giant size comedy special issue 25.


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In the wake of BOOK OF DEATH, Valiant’s elite superteam is no more…and Valiant is recruiting a who’s who of all-star guests to bid them a fond farewell!

Valiant is proud to announce UNITY #25 – a super-sized, 48-page finale for Valiant’s best-selling superteam, starring X-O Manowar, Livewire, Ninjak, Bloodshot, Divinity, Faith, Quantum and Woody, the Death-Defying Dr. Mirage, and pretty much the whole darn Valiant Universe!

Arriving in December, the UNITY #25 final issue humor spectacular will feature stories and shorts from a colossal roster of Unity veterans and comics comedy VIPs, including Matt Kindt (DIVINITY), James Asmus (QUANTUM AND WOODY), Donny Cates & Eliot Rahal (The Paybacks), Elliott Kalan (The Daily Show), Kano (THE DELINQUENTS), Daniel Kibblesmith (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert),Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle), Rafer Roberts (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #25),Tim Siedell (The Nightly Show), and Ty Templeton (Batman Adventures) – plus the comic book debut of comedian and radio host Tom Scharpling (The Best Show)!

New York Times best-selling writer and Valiant superstar Matt Kindt presents the final chapter of his acclaimed two-year run on Valiant’s premier superteam…and then all-out chaos ensues as Valiant says goodbye and passes the reins to an all-star line-up of writers, artists, and humorists to chronicle the unusual, the offbeat, and the never-before-seen tales of the team that became a legend in their own time…the one and only Unity!

Think Bloodshot only joined the team long enough to fight the Armor Hunters? WRONG! Discover his newly declassified Unity missions! You saw Faith help Unity fight their opposite counterparts, The United… Now find out find out how else she assisted the team! Remember that time Quantum and Woody’s goat joined the most elite assemblage of heroes that the Valiant Universe has ever known? No? Well, it happened! WE PROMISE.

Featuring covers by Valiant superstar Kano (QUANTUM AND WOODY), multiple Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT), legendary cartoonist Fred Hembeck (Marvel Age), and Eisner Award winner Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle), the Valiant Universe’s most formidable team of heroes collides with a massive cast of comedy all-stars this winter in UNITY #25 – a 48-page free-for-all on sale in December!

UNITY #25 (FINAL ISSUE HUMOR SPECTACULAR!)
Written by MATT KINDT, JAMES ASMUS, DONNY CATES, JUSTIN JORDAN,
ELLIOTT KALAN, DANIEL KIBBLESMITH, MICHAEL KUPPERMAN, ELIOT RAHAL, TIM SIEDELL, TOM SCHARPLING, TY TEMPLETON, and MORE
Art by MATT KINDT, KANO, MICHAEL KUPPERMAN, RAFER ROBERTS, TY TEMPLETON, and MORE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by MATT KINDT
Cover C by FRED HEMBECK
Cover D by MICHAEL KUPPERMAN
$4.99 | 48 pgs. | T+ | COMING IN DECEMBER!

Oh yes, that's right, we get a Hembeck cover. Valiant is smart enough to know even in 2015 you shouldn't do a comedy issue without a little Hembeck.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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If you're looking to get into a good portion of Valiant for a cheap price the Groupees digital sale is on for another 7 hours or so. Lots of really good reading here.

https://groupees.com/valiant

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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The December Solicitations confirm what I had believed in that issue 12 of Ivar will be the final issue of the series wrapping up the Ending History arc. Let's hope that Van Lente and Perez move on over to a brand new Archer & Armstrong series after that. Fingers crossed.

Also in December we get the start of the second Dr. Mirage mini.

X-O fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Sep 19, 2015

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Valiant announced today that everyone's favorite Renegade is getting her own mini-series. From writer Jody Houser and artists Francis Portela and Marguerite Sauvage. Can't wait to check this out as Faith is great. The arc where she temporarily joins Unity is one of my favorite Valiant stories.



http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/exclusive-valiant-puts-faith-in-houser-portelas-hands-in-january

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Fritzler posted:

I'm weirdly excited for Faith and Archer to start dating (one of the things that Ivar revealed about the future is that Faith is the love of Archer's life).

I don't know when that'll happen though, the way Ivar acted it seems as if that happens after Archer destroys Bloodshot. I don't see that happening any time soon. Man I love the Far Faraway arc.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Rusty Kettle posted:

Fred van Lente said in a podcast that Archer 'destroying' Bloodshot happened in the Mission Improbable arch. I guess Ivar was exaggerating...

I would like to hear this podcast, I mean I totally believe you, but I just love Fred Van Lente and would like to hear him talking about his Archer and Armstrong run.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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:stare:

Jesus Christ. Fall of Harbinger is probably the best issue of a comic the new Valiant has published. gently caress was that good. GET THIS ISSUE!

If you haven't read Book of Death, first what's wrong with you?, it doesn't matter. If you read the 25 issue Harbinger series and Omegas you owe it to yourself to read this book. And if you read Imperium you'll smile at the nods to Sunset on Snow.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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zoux posted:

I've read all those books but not any of the other Books of Death, as I haven't read most of the new Valiant stuff. Is it self contained or am I gonna be lost?

Self contained. Like the other "Fall of" books it only needs you to have read the characters in their own adventures not in Book of Death. It does not spoil or rely on Book of Death at all. If you have read Harbinger 1-25 and Omegas you will be fine. If you have read Imperium you will smile at a few nods but it's not necessary.


Fritzler posted:

I'm weirdly excited for Faith and Archer to start dating (one of the things that Ivar revealed about the future is that Faith is the love of Archer's life).

This is also touched upon in Fall of Harbinger. Faith dies in her sleep at the age of 57 next to her husband Archer. Her funeral is attended by thousands as she was the most popular superhero the world had ever known.

X-O fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Oct 1, 2015

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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zoux posted:

Yeah, Harbinger Book of Death owned. Is the Book of Death event just "Six Feet Under finale but for all our comics"?

The tie-ins for Bloodshot, Harbinger, and Ninjak have basically been that. The actual event comic is a proper crossover and is something that spins directly out of The Valiant and sets up the new Eternal Warrior series. So if you've read the former and want to read the latter then you need to check it out. Like all of Valiant's crossovers it's very good in being self contained from the ongoing books so it doesn't rely on you having followed any of the others. If you'd followed Unity you'd probably appreciate part of it more, but it's not necessary.

quote:

One thing I really like about Valiant books is that they do scifi concepts very well. I'm not talking about dudes in space stuff, Marvel and DC cosmic stuff isn't really scifi. But stuff like the time shenanigans in Ivar or transcendent non-corporeal minds or Major Mech/SoS AI identity struggle are all ideas that have strong legacies in scifi literature going back decades, while offering fresh takes on them. Van Lente's framework for time travel in Ivar is one of the most interesting stories about the idea I've ever read.

Yeah, they don't let real science restrict or hold back the creativity of their storytelling, but at the same time they respect real science enough that it plays heavily into their concepts. Divinity is also a great example of playing with scifi and science in a really unique way. The structure of that mini is genius and his appearance in Imperium was a real "Oh poo poo" moment. I can't wait to see what Kindt does with him in the next miniseries.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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If anyone's wanting to catch up on Eternal Warrior or Unity now's the time!

https://www.comixology.com/Eternal-Warrior-Sale/page/8341?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL3NtYWxsQ2Fyb3VzZWw

Also The Valiant is on sale. Get on it! Great prices for great books!

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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I knew something with Bloodshot and the future was coming up, but holy poo poo that art is amazing. Also I heard from the Baltimore panel that Lemire has already written 25 issues of Bloodshot completely and the art is complete on 16 or 17 of those issues. They're working super far ahead it seems.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Khari Evans is probably one of the biggest offenders to me when it comes to Valiant's art. But I really dig most of their rotating crew like Pere Perez, Clayton Henry, Doug Braithwaite, Cary Nord, and Rafa Sandoval. The standouts to me being Pere Perez (maybe one of my favorites working right now because he does expressions so well), Clayton Crain, Clay Mann, and Raul Allen.


Also Valiant is teasing Archer and Armstrong on Twitter. Guessing the creative team announcement will be during their panel on Saturday.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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I think The Valiant is possibly the most perfect comic crossover I've ever read. As far as Valiant goes I'd say I like Armor Hunters more just because I love cosmic stuff in comics and Valiant's cosmic stuff hits all the right points for me (the X-O tie-in issues that give you the storyline about the origin of the Armor Hunters at the same time as the main story is especially genius because just as you're hating what they're doing in one story you're seeing how it was it came to this in the other), but The Valiant is a four issue crossover with zero tie-ins and it is basically perfection as far as the idea of a crossover goes.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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I like Valiant getting positive press like that article but I almost stopped reading when right off the top it said Valiant averaged 20 ongoings a month. I mean do a little bit of research guy.

Also this:

zoux posted:

Holy poo poo Toyo Harada.

Imperium rules. So does Bloodshot.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Rafer Roberts, a relative newcomer to writing comics, will be writing Archer & Armstrong (Now just titled A&A) and the artist will be David Lafuente on the first arc who has now signed a Valiant exclusive. I love Lafuente's art and his style fits the tone of Archer & Armstrong perfectly. The first arc will see them venture inside Armstrong's bottomless satchel in search of something.

http://www.newsarama.com/26224-lafuente-signs-exclusive-with-valiant-for-new-a-a-ongoing.html

I know Valiant like to rotate artists around on some titles, which I love because seeing different styles on different books is fun, but I kind of hope Lafuente stays on this because his art is perfect for the tone of the book.

X-O fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Oct 9, 2015

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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zoux posted:

So what's Van Lente gonna be doing?

Dunno. Dinesh has said he's already started on his next project there. Maybe Neela, Timewalker is too much to ask for?

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Shadowman was one of the books I was really lukewarm on after Justin Jordan left and I know Valiant has been looking for a way to bring him back into the fold since he's one of their more popular characters. We heard a while back that the next arc of Ninjak will see him going to the Deadside and meeting up with Shadowman who has been missing for a while. But now we know what he looks like and it's pretty drat cool.



With Kindt writing it I'm really excited to see what has happened to him in the intervening months to come out looking like this.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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At the Valiant panel they talked about plans for Bloodshot post the Analog Man title and teased Lemire's Bloodshot Island story with art that looks as if the current Bloodshot discovers an island where the older discarded Bloodshots we've seen through the series are hidden away. After that they teased a storyline that is just VS. featuring Bloodshot's logo.

They also pushed Divinity II which seems to be focused one on of the other cosmonauts that was with Abram on the mission as she was featured in all the art they showed.

They also put a slide that just said 4001 with nothing else and said they could only say that 4001 is going to be an important part of Valiant's 2016.

X-O fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Oct 10, 2015

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Yeah in the old Valiant 4001 was a pretty big deal. I believe both Rai and Magnus took place there. The only things we've seen in the new Valiant there are Rai and the second arc of Eternal Warrior, still my favorite arc of all the new Valiant.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Short reviews for this week's comics which I just finished today thanks to work. I need to stop saving Valiant for last, but the Marvel books are usually up before I leave for work now on Wednesday and Valiant isn't. C'mon Valiant you gotta start getting these up overnight!

Ninjak - Loved this issue. I love the way they framed the backstory for Fitz and now he's immediately a character I want to see more of. Pretty much a standalone issue in the middle of an arc but it was done really well. I'm not familiar with the artist, and he's no Clay Mann, but I was really digging his style.

Unity - I completely forgot about Helix surviving Armor Hunters and I read the entire crossover twice because I loved it so much. I had no clue what was going on the entire issue until that last page. Maybe I'm just a dummy, but I had no idea. I like seeing Asmus writing a non comedy style. We know the book is almost up but it's sad seeing the group fall apart like this. I hope GIN-GR makes it, but it's not looking promising.

X-O - This one is setting up a finale to the arc that probably won't end well for anybody. Hopefully Aric can make some kind of peace, but that's not been a strength of his in the past. With the Vine stuff in Imperium heating up and a whole armada ready to blast Earth here I'm guessing we're getting hostilities for the long haul.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Well with Ninjak I don't mind issues being "Ninjak fights a guy" because I think the way Kindt writes action and the way they've drawn it in these Ninjak issues is incredibly interesting and feels fresh. Plus with every issue being oversized they still have room to include other stuff as well. And Kindt really doesn't write his fights for Ninjak in a conventional way and it's really fun seeing them play out. The issues dealing with Kannon and Roku were full of fun fights and spy stuff. Seeing as how Roku was in a very prominent position in one of the splash pages in Book of Death's fast forward part I'm really anxious to see what they do with her coming up. I also really dug her origin issue.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Doesn't appeal to me, but if it gets shops to order more books and push them down the throats of customers to make more fans that's all good to me.

I haven't read this week's books yet. Long days at work but I'm gonna try and get them read tomorrow morning before I leave for work. Still need Valiant to get the books out at midnight PST on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning like Marvel does now, since Wednesday morning is a light morning for me and Thursday and Friday not so much. Come on Valiant, cater directly to me!

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Man, Fall of X-O Manowar was such a satisfying read. Just like all the other "Fall of" books. Seeing Aric finally be consumed by the armor, which we all knew would happen eventually, and then his goodbye to the armor before becoming a suit of armor himself and his daughter taking up the mantle. Just so perfect and ties off so many threads that have run through the book. And seeing that eventually Trill will turn around on him so much that he'll demand a respectful and proper burial under Vine traditions for his dead leader so steadfastly that it sets him at odds with Aric's family was really cool. I am loving Book of Death so much. Still bugs me I can't get The Geomancer books because I'd love to read them seeing as how they are from my favorite Valiant writer, but I'm going on faith that Rhyno is right for once and we'll get them in the hardcover so I'm not going to shell out ridiculous money for floppies that I don't want to own as floppies.

Rai was another great issue, and ending it with Rai finally finding Gilad was great. The only downside of Crain being on the book is that it has to have long breaks between each arc. I'm fairly certain there's too much to happen in for it to all tie up in the last issue of this arc so I'm sure it'll be next arc before Rai and Gilad head off to take out Father. Then again Matt Kindt has proven he can maximize the space in a single issue to do amazing things.

And what can you say about Ivar? Van Lente continues to amaze. I hope his next project involves Neela in some fashion. Just rename the book Neela, Timewalker and let it go on since someone else is doing A&A. I know Dinesh said a while back on Twitter that he was already working on another title. Not like it was in doubt they'd let him get away.

X-O fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Oct 24, 2015

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Couldn't wait until tomorrow, had to read Book of Death before bed tonight, and I am so glad I did. What a fantastic issue. Tama is a badass is a badass in the making. The way she completely punked Darque by turning him into a tree was great. Seems she's already the most powerful Geomancer we've seen. Poor Gilad though. That did not end well for him at all. The hook and first few pages of the new Eternal Warrior title definitely left me wanting more right now. I guess the plot of the book will be him fighting his way out of Hell. I gather from the dialogue he's died several times and escaped each time.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Oh man, Imperium was so drat good this week. It's the kind of comic that really reminds my why I love reading comics. Fleshing out the history of the universe and doing world building that shows the connective tissue between the Valiant titles. This is the stuff that makes comics so much fun. Josh Dysart is goddamn amazing and seemingly can do no wrong.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Rhyno posted:

Isn't Guice drawing that arc?

No, Lewis LaRosa. And it looks amazing.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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OK, these are quite amazing, especially the Eternal Warrior one.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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X-O Manowar has slower character development due to the way it tells its stories and the fact that it's the only true ongoing with the same writer due to it being the flagship character of the company. Venditti has a long story in mind with lots of pre-planning and everything in the series builds upon what came before it. That's why it's one of my favorite books and characters. Plus it had one of the best events I've read in comics in the Armor Hunters storyline which I think is a masterpiece in scifi/cosmic comic storytelling.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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The OP has been updated to reflect the books that have left us and ones that are new and coming soon.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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I'm happy to see it but I have no clue why. It's not like Faith or Valiant in general is super popular. Is it low print runs or something?

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Hmmm. Is this a new Rai or something else?

http://twitter.com/ValiantComics/status/696528085546622976

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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Space Fish posted:

I've made sure to synchronize my reading of this, Bloodshot, and Harbinger Wars so that I get maximum hype from seeing how each series interacts in close reading succession.

How the books intersect and build off each is one of the greatest strengths of Valiant comics. The small size and attention to detail is why it has the most cohesive interconnected universe of all.

Also for Armor Hunters I strongly suggest reading it in release order. The flow of the books is much better than reading the separate trades. Especially the trade off in the story of the actual Armor Hunters group. Because as you're reading the Armor Hunters event itself they're telling a story about those characters past in the X-O tie-ins. I know it's not easy to do with trades, but it's worth the effort.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

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bobkatt013 posted:

Archer and Armstrong feels like Incredible Hercules and I forgot how much I missed that book. Thank you DC for a new reboot as I can spend more money on this company.

Fred Van Lente is a hell of a writer.

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Apr 28, 2002

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Holy poo poo I cannot wait for this. Clayton Crain is really outdoing himself with that art.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/11/valiant-series-summer-4001-ad?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

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