Faith is a ridiculous message. I'm a bit overweight, it doesn't make me a bad person, but it's nothing to be proud of. Telling overweight people they are capable of working hard and getting in shape is a positive message, but being overweight isn't something in itself to be positive about. Like people who get on with life after losing limbs are to be admired, but that doesn't mean losing a limb in itself is good. I'm disappointed you didn't name your kid X-O 😂
I was a fan of the original Jim Shooter Valiant and dipped my toe in at various times since then. This video reminds me of another indie that was really fantastic named Crossgen. The ideas there were top notch. I still think that was the best Mark Waid we've seen even though he was stiffed at the end. The Negation to me was their greatest book. Aliens from the Negative Universe kidnap people from ours to study them for a future invasion. Many of these escape and cause all sorts of trouble for these would be invaders. Fantastic concept. I love when these indie universes want to do what Marvel did in the 60's. I always hope they succeed.
Valiant has been on life support for at least since 2018. Woke did it's part, some of the new hires emasculated some of the greatest characters. Only Bloodshot, and Ninjak remained unscathed. Such a sad roller coaster ride.
I tried with Conanas a middle name. Fan of Arthur Conan Doyle and the barbarian. Also shot down. The ex wife wanted Brendan which is also an ancient Scottish name and is still a win
Few things in comics has hurt me more than when I found out that valiant went so far to the left them with the crazy Woke shit. Literally I was devastated. Archer and Armstrong is probably my singular favorite comic of all time
Faith was never meant to be a central character with her own book. She doesn't work without the other Harbinger kids. She actually is a great character if you read the original Valiant comics and the relaunch by Josh Dysart. Readers connected with her because she was a nerd. She loved Star Trek, comic books and Firefly. Valiant tried to make her a spokesperson for body positivity which is when it all went wrong.
💯. I liked Faith when I first saw her, and she got me interested in the valiant universe and characters, but this all bs with body positivity and stuff just makes things uninteresting and boring
Body positive heroes....do not sell. Nobody buys a comic for that. We buy to be entertained. That is why Faith was doomed from the start after the #1 issue was bought by collectors, and then they all dumped out because they were never going to actually read it. Valiant is done. I don't know why they keep try to continue. X-O Manowar is a killer character that was probably there best, but even that is dead as a property. Just close it up and call it a day. You are not going to be a media powerhouse company as you planned. WTF20.
The most frustrating thing about being a Valiant fan is knowing they've had multiple opportunity's the past 30+ years to maintain success and grow from it, and they've squandered it.. Every. Single. Time. As you know this goes all the way back to when they ran Shooter off. I'm still convinced, had they not done that, the industry would be looked on as "The Big 3," today. It's so very rare to get multiple chances in comics like Valiant's had, and I just don't see them getting another. 😮💨
@@jaylucien669 Yeah but back when he was in charge of Valiant according to Wes at least, he carried the company with quality comics and by making no mention of that, it dismisses the good he had done.
I’m ok with a female fat superhero but it’s always gotta make sense narratively. Comics, Manga, Fictional Book, traditional Books, ARE ALL RELIANT on how well your able to tell a story.
All of these comics businesses are getting money from somewhere despite being awful and aggressively rejecting fans. The "hope" they run on is finding a new sucker.
I think aj ampadu has a chance becuase he says he was fan when the very 1st comic came out and he says he's read matt kindt and christos gage's run on ninjak. I know that doesnt mean it'll good but i think he has a chance. And i do think its understandable of why you dont like emiliano correa's art, but i do like how he draws roku and i do perfer him over mike norton. And i do think alien books did them better than dmg did.
I can't help but wish Valiant would get it together. Love the Shooter era and the foest relaunch, but they keep squandering their characters and opportunities. Its just sad.
I liked Blodshot unleashed as a kind of celebration/homage of the action genre in comics, XO Manowar by Liam Sharp was a wasted oportunity using his digital render style with no action whatsoever. I really want to like Valiant, becuse in hispanic countries we get them as hardcover collection with great production quality, but is sad that this iteration of the characters can get good writers. And the best years seems to be their 2012 first wave. At least it seems they are reprinting their entirw runs begining with the 90s stuff with Alien Books.
The three eternal brothers were Gilad (the Eternal Warrior), Aram (Armstrong), and Ivar (Timewalker). Gilad was my favorite character in the original Valiant run and that's really saying something because I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of those books/characters in those first couple of years.
Well, I agree. These new Valiant books look pretty lame. On a side note, I think "The Far Away" is meant to be a replacement/stand in for The Lost Land, the setting for the Valiant series Turok. Because the Turok rights are with Universal, Valiant probably wanted to use the Lost Land, but couldn't.
Loved Valiant when Shooter was at the helm. He’s the reason I first got Magnus Robot fighter, he literally talked me into getting the book and signed it on the spot lol I really enjoyed the line and still have every book from that Valiant era. Unfortunately I am not looking forward to this new take.
Bunn's Shadowman series was great, other than that, it's been either mediocre or terrible. The Valiant, Armor Hunters and Harbinger War are some of my favorite comics event stories ever.
As much as I love valiant comics, why do they feel the need to constantly shoot themselves in the foot? It seems like every time they get something going, they mess it up. XO is probably their most consistently good book over the years. Why was faith pushed so damn hard for so many years?
Back in January I bought 10 of his X-O volumes from Venditti himself via Twitter. He signed every one and threw in some free comics too. He's a good guy.
There is so many ways you can make me like Faith as a character, not just comedy BUT just make her Cute, a Cute Round Flying Girl with Big puppy Eyes, a Big smile and Long Flowy Hair. Just play into her her being over weight by making her body round and cartoony, sorry might sounds offensive for same, but her being over weight and then not doing anything with it, doesn't make any else, also the attractiveness over weight thing seems to be working for the Big Ethel Energy comic, so that could work too. People are not going to buy a comic about a boring Girl with Over weight, it has to be somehow part of the character and Really look Good on the Covers.
Bro do some fucking research. There's a whole new company in charge of publishing Valiant comics: Alien Books. Also Dinesh did not sell Valiant to DMG. Valiant was bought out in a hostile takeover.
Ivar was Timewalker wasn't he? - Poor old Valiant. I loved the original stuff and still have those comics. X-O Manowar was particularly good back then. But there's been as many reboots as DC now hasn't there, and the ownership has proved to be a real issue. Alien Books whoever they are seem to have a stake in it now? They seem to largely be going for unknown European art teams by the looks of it, and the art does look very average at best. The books are not the easiest to find either. I can imagine the print runs are very low, although there doesn't seem to be much incentive to pick any of these up.
I was on board with Valiant from the very beginning in the '90s and absolutely loved the books and loved the characters. I forget what year I stopped, but it was still during the '90s and it was after they went downhill. I haven't read anything from Valiant since, but this video has me wanting to re-read all of those original books if I ever find the time.
I just bought XO Manowar #0 chrome cover. I had it back in my younger years but sold it for like $10 but I recently bought it again for nostalgia purposes.
9:20 wasn’t Roku Ninjak’s handler and then the undead monk stuck the nail in the base of her skull? It’s been like a year since I read it. It was good.
I'm hopeful for the future of Valiant given that at least there is now a regular publishing schedule. The Britannia book released last week was incredible (while the Livewire book was straight garbage). There were actually 4 issues of Bloodshot Unleashed by Deniz Camp but now the continuing series Reloaded only has the first issue from Deniz Camp. My guess that just finishes his initial 5 part arc.
The 90's stuff (which is still the best IMO), is very cheap to get right now. I've been collecting them for the better part of the past 6 months, and I've enjoyed every second. Awesome reads. Awesome universe.
How do you think " I want valiant movie franchise'" presumably because you have faith in the IP (the comics) then proceed to let many of the comics post purchase go to shit?
I don't care that Faith is fat. It's stupid that that's the whole gimmick though. Those interiors are _awful_ Damn shame about Valiant. I loved the comics in the 90's, and the 2012 relaunch was some of the best stuff in comics at the time.
Faith was alright in small doses on a team like with Harbinger. I initially found her endearing, but they tried to do too much and ruined the character.
Finally, someone that has my thoughts in this comment section. Although they could get different artists. How Alien books and Valiant did A very valentines is Solid in art and story, Bloodshot Unleashed Reloaded #1 is alright in story, very good in art, Livewire and the secret weapons is decent in story, in art...Emiliano Urdinola's part is good but could use a different colorist, Miguel something's part ( I forgot his name. ) is good but Emilio utrera part is weak, and I haven't read the new Britannia comic yet. I hope Valiant and Alien books gives us some solid stuff.
Sooooo... "This is my favorite [little] universe." Proceeds to call "XO Manowar" as the "flagship title". (It's "Magnus", by the way. Literally the "flagship title")
One of the many regrets I'll have from the 90's, is not having given Valiant a chance. I remember many critics in Wizard Magazine raving about their titles. But back then I was sooo focused on DC and Marvel ... And also had pretty much no disposable income. Today, since "the Big Two" have decided to flush history and quality, I'm open to give samller publishers a try: Ablaze, Aftershock, AWA, sometimes Zenescope, and of course my childish crush on Red Sonja and Vampirella (except when the creative team has proven to be a failure).
Me personally I would love to see a crossover between Valiant and DC. I think it would be better than the ones they had with Marvel and Image years ago. What really surprise me is they didn't announce a Harbinger comic book or a The Harbinger: Peter Stanchek comic book which is a shame because it's one of my favorite characters in that universe.
Gave up on universe when last XOmanowar started even then was downloading from free sites. Only reason was doing that was to keep up incase they turned it around to much substandard art with stories that went no where not even worth effort to read for free
Whew... Damn man... You got lots of bits wrong throughout this. Raijin is an earlier model of Rai that survived. The Abnet run was about Rai trying to kill Father by destroying other Rai units. Father took possession of Bloodshot's body and was collecting the fallen aspects to regain power. I think you were confusing the original run because that Rai did have a son. After 4001AD was War Mother and Fallen World. They filled in the blanks. Deniz got 4 issues of Bloodshot Unleashed before the switch in Reloaded #2. The Faraway is a land that time forgot: dinosaurs, pilgrims, aliens, metal flora, glass water, and home of the Archer cult The Archies. Ivar The Timewalker. The Book of Shadows. Brigadier General Capshaw Divinity is more like Dr. Manhattan. Bloodshot is what if Punisher wanted his humanity back but still fought his war... Oxana is the Forgotten Queen, sister Ani Pada. Dinesh did not sell Valiant. Dan Mintz pulled a hostile take over by buying out the shares of Dinesh's partners and forced him out of the company. Valiant is now a shareholders company that essentially owns no physical assets. The people at Alien Books are really trying hard to get this shit off the ground and get people interested in Valiant. They did get Lysa Hawkins back as an editor.
This i agree. why couldn't Paramount own Valiant instead of Dmg?? At least for the movie rights. I think that Alien books at least cares more about Valiant than Dmg ever did. The Valiants by Ryan Cady and Al Barrionuevo looks promising.
I was a big fan of the Turok comics as a kid after playing the Evolution, it was a cheap series to collect at the time. I wish they’d reprint the series
I started reading it back in around 2017 from a recommendation from a clerk at my LCS - they had a great plan of selling issue 1 of trades for a run under $10 CDN to get you into the universe, so smart. I got right up to Harbinger Wars, read X-0, Bloodshot, Ninjak, Archer and Armstrong, Harbinger, and Shadowman. They were so much fun, then I couldn't find a copy of Harbinger Wars it was out of print, I didn't want to pay crazy insane markups. So I had to give up on the series, and haven't heard much good since. It's a shame.
I'm morbidly certain the only way Valiant can resurge, is if the IPs are given to Japanese artists and writers, to do with as they wish- American comic book companies have essentially turned themselves into Atari, anyways. Having anime based on Valiant characters, should drive interest in the comics-turned-manga. For Faith to SELL, she will have to be changed in ways that will make her UNRECOGNIZABLE to her own creators. If her character design is not redesigned to be "oversexed," then maybe turn her into a cute animal mascot- basically Pikachu the superheroine- so children will want their parents to buy plushies of her.
There was a time were all I wanted to see on solicitations was when the new Valiant deluxe HC´s were coming out; occassionally I see there are still some good ones coming up on new solicitations back from the time were I was reafing Valiantand that really surprises me a lot
I miss Solar to bad he is no longer own and no longer part of The Valiant Comics universe. Last I heard Dynamite has the rights to the character and they haven't done anything with the character in years.
I loved Valiant when they first relaunched about a decade ago now. I collect XO-manowar, Ninjak, and Rai. Then I noticed out of the blue they started pushing Faith as their flag ship character. That's when it all started going downhill, and I stopped buying them.
Shadow Man will forever be my all-time favorite, specifically Mike LeRoi (the acclaim version who stars in the games). I really hate that all of this bullshit is poisoning everything.
Lol my 2 girls have middle names from characters. Layla from Layla Miller / Created by Bendis and Coipel and used for Peter David's X-Factor and Abigail from Abigail Fuller / Quantum Leap.
Valiant Comics Entertainment had its chance. And they blew it. Twice. And after Heather Antos took a dump on their face after they were already financially kicked in the balls with a steel toe combat boot by the plandemic, they should've just called it quits permanently. It's a crying shame because they realy did have some great concepts. Unfortunately, they were just horribly executed. My favorite comic book from Valiant was the H.A.R.D. Corps. But they never did anything with them after they had their post-1990s reboot. Oh, well. I guess it's just like the old song says, 🎶🎵"That's just the way it is. Some things will never change."🎵🎶
Your commenting on a character that you don't remember anything about? Rai has been amazing. I understand you liked Crain art, I loved it to, but Abnestt Rai is fantastic!. He continued everything from Kindts run that you loved so much. Raijin is from that run. Abnett series continues on directly from Kindts run. Maybe re read it. Number 2 of Abnetts run is amazing! So many layers. Btw DMG, specifically The hated Dan Mintz forced Dinesh out. Such a crazy story.
Exo Manowar get downstairs and do your homework now!! 😅. Seriously though Valiant is my favorite also. Love Shadowman, A&A, just such a cool universe and always loved the art
I loved Valiant in the 90’s. I bought some titles on the reboot. Always was a big Eternal Warrior fan. This company is pretty much dead. Needs a new buyer…
Thanks for this one. Long time Valiant fan from the Shooter days, ended up walking away when Dinesh was terminated by DMG. They’d been doing great stuff, but I knew bringing in Illidge and Antos was going to ruin my favorite comics.
Used to enjoy Valiant but all the no talents like Cloon-rad being hired destroying the properties & DMG ownership's leadership being a rudderless void I avoid this company like the plague. What a waste.
Big fan of Valiant since the 90s. Outside of the stupid amount of variant covers, I have almost everything ever done by Valiant. I actually have a decent amount of the variants too… I’m just not made of money, so there are limits. Other than a few random months, they have published 1 - 4 new issues each month over the last few years (usually 2 each month). My favorites are Harbinger, Archer and Armstrong, and Quantum and Woody… sadly, none seem to be involved in the new event. I agree that 2018 was when the decline started.
Faith is a ridiculous message. I'm a bit overweight, it doesn't make me a bad person, but it's nothing to be proud of. Telling overweight people they are capable of working hard and getting in shape is a positive message, but being overweight isn't something in itself to be positive about. Like people who get on with life after losing limbs are to be admired, but that doesn't mean losing a limb in itself is good.
I'm disappointed you didn't name your kid X-O 😂
13:41 Raijin is from the Rai-run from Abnett which follows an idea from Matt Kindt about previous versions of Rai
One of them is Raijin
I was a fan of the original Jim Shooter Valiant and dipped my toe in at various times since then. This video reminds me of another indie that was really fantastic named Crossgen. The ideas there were top notch. I still think that was the best Mark Waid we've seen even though he was stiffed at the end. The Negation to me was their greatest book. Aliens from the Negative Universe kidnap people from ours to study them for a future invasion. Many of these escape and cause all sorts of trouble for these would be invaders. Fantastic concept. I love when these indie universes want to do what Marvel did in the 60's. I always hope they succeed.
Valiant has been on life support for at least since 2018. Woke did it's part, some of the new hires emasculated some of the greatest characters. Only Bloodshot, and Ninjak remained unscathed. Such a sad roller coaster ride.
Wanted to name my son “SOLAR: MAN OF THE ATOM!” Got shot down. Would’ve been cool AF!
Should have made it their middle name, and never told them 😂
Maybe you could have sold her on just Solar. That's a solid name.
I tried with Conanas a middle name. Fan of Arthur Conan Doyle and the barbarian. Also shot down. The ex wife wanted Brendan which is also an ancient Scottish name and is still a win
Sigh.....could have just named him Phillip Seleski. Sheesh .😅
I'm surprised Valiant Comics is still alive after Heather Antos poisoned the brand.
Few things in comics has hurt me more than when I found out that valiant went so far to the left them with the crazy Woke shit. Literally I was devastated. Archer and Armstrong is probably my singular favorite comic of all time
Faith was never meant to be a central character with her own book. She doesn't work without the other Harbinger kids. She actually is a great character if you read the original Valiant comics and the relaunch by Josh Dysart. Readers connected with her because she was a nerd. She loved Star Trek, comic books and Firefly. Valiant tried to make her a spokesperson for body positivity which is when it all went wrong.
💯. I liked Faith when I first saw her, and she got me interested in the valiant universe and characters, but this all bs with body positivity and stuff just makes things uninteresting and boring
I loved Valiant comics as a kid. While everyone was drooling over Image, I was devouring Turok and Bloodshot
The best issues were when Jim Shooter was at the helm. Eternal Warrior, Shadowman and Bloodshot were consistently good post Shooter.
Turok too.
Jeff Lemire Bloodshot was REALLY dope
Body positive heroes....do not sell. Nobody buys a comic for that. We buy to be entertained. That is why Faith was doomed from the start after the #1 issue was bought by collectors, and then they all dumped out because they were never going to actually read it. Valiant is done. I don't know why they keep try to continue. X-O Manowar is a killer character that was probably there best, but even that is dead as a property. Just close it up and call it a day. You are not going to be a media powerhouse company as you planned. WTF20.
That Faith cover is like a fever dream. She looks like the villain with that smile.
The most frustrating thing about being a Valiant fan is knowing they've had multiple opportunity's the past 30+ years to maintain success and grow from it, and they've squandered it.. Every. Single. Time. As you know this goes all the way back to when they ran Shooter off. I'm still convinced, had they not done that, the industry would be looked on as "The Big 3," today.
It's so very rare to get multiple chances in comics like Valiant's had, and I just don't see them getting another. 😮💨
It’s kind annoying that users act like Dinesh never existed when this ever this company’s brought up.
@@Quarckster I get it, but he bailed out.
@@jaylucien669 Yeah but back when he was in charge of Valiant according to Wes at least, he carried the company with quality comics and by making no mention of that, it dismisses the good he had done.
@@Quarckster Fair enough
I’m ok with a female fat superhero but it’s always gotta make sense narratively. Comics, Manga, Fictional Book, traditional Books, ARE ALL RELIANT on how well your able to tell a story.
All of these comics businesses are getting money from somewhere despite being awful and aggressively rejecting fans. The "hope" they run on is finding a new sucker.
Blackrock
The Valiant books have been much, much improved under Alien Books & I look forward to all these new books.
More Ninjak? sign me up. Also Ninja-K is good? I'll have to check it out
Actually, Valiant went downhill after 2015 when they started to close there original line up.
High in the sky.
High calorie meals.
High fat per body mass.
High cholesterol.
The only thing Faith doesn't have is high sales.
Not so. If reviewers get high when reading the series, then sales soar into infinity and beyond!
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Sounds very interesting
DAMN!
😅😅😅😅😅😅
Long as she's got High Hopes
Faith's grocery bill every month must be insane. It's probably more than some people's rent.
Not so. She eats all her critics and detractors for free. You should probably delete this comment before she reads it.
😏
I saw her on the Macy's Day parade a few years ago.
Faith "never did anything impactful"...au contraire Wes, the concrete and Faith's furniture beg to differ.
I think aj ampadu has a chance becuase he says he was fan when the very 1st comic came out and he says he's read matt kindt and christos gage's run on ninjak. I know that doesnt mean it'll good but i think he has a chance. And i do think its understandable of why you dont like emiliano correa's art, but i do like how he draws roku and i do perfer him over mike norton. And i do think alien books did them better than dmg did.
I can't help but wish Valiant would get it together. Love the Shooter era and the foest relaunch, but they keep squandering their characters and opportunities. Its just sad.
You could put me on a cover and sell more comics.
And im 50lbs heavier than my pic full disclosure that was 2009 LOL
It's so nice to hear (especially from you) someone loving Valiant comics.
I was a huge fan of X-O, The Eternal Warrior and Magnus. 😢
Same here!
Relaunch of a relaunch. Its a shame, like before it started strong but creators matter.
I liked Blodshot unleashed as a kind of celebration/homage of the action genre in comics, XO Manowar by Liam Sharp was a wasted oportunity using his digital render style with no action whatsoever. I really want to like Valiant, becuse in hispanic countries we get them as hardcover collection with great production quality, but is sad that this iteration of the characters can get good writers. And the best years seems to be their 2012 first wave.
At least it seems they are reprinting their entirw runs begining with the 90s stuff with Alien Books.
The three eternal brothers were Gilad (the Eternal Warrior), Aram (Armstrong), and Ivar (Timewalker). Gilad was my favorite character in the original Valiant run and that's really saying something because I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of those books/characters in those first couple of years.
Yikes. I was stupid enough to buy Faith when it first came out. I never bought Valiant again. I'll avoid this like the plague.
Well, I agree. These new Valiant books look pretty lame.
On a side note, I think "The Far Away" is meant to be a replacement/stand in for The Lost Land, the setting for the Valiant series Turok. Because the Turok rights are with Universal, Valiant probably wanted to use the Lost Land, but couldn't.
you know what? im with you wes, Valiant is not so bad.... faith looks so bad.. and I tried to read it awhile back...
Loved Valiant when Shooter was at the helm. He’s the reason I first got Magnus Robot fighter, he literally talked me into getting the book and signed it on the spot lol I really enjoyed the line and still have every book from that Valiant era. Unfortunately I am not looking forward to this new take.
Bunn's Shadowman series was great, other than that, it's been either mediocre or terrible. The Valiant, Armor Hunters and Harbinger War are some of my favorite comics event stories ever.
As much as I love valiant comics, why do they feel the need to constantly shoot themselves in the foot?
It seems like every time they get something going, they mess it up.
XO is probably their most consistently good book over the years.
Why was faith pushed so damn hard for so many years?
I got Venditti’s XO Manowar based on your recommendation. I can see why you like this character. But I’d read anything Venditti writes.
Back in January I bought 10 of his X-O volumes from Venditti himself via Twitter. He signed every one and threw in some free comics too. He's a good guy.
Love valiant. I applied to be an artist but I didn't make the cut
There is so many ways you can make me like Faith as a character, not just comedy BUT just make her Cute, a Cute Round Flying Girl with Big puppy Eyes, a Big smile and Long Flowy Hair. Just play into her her being over weight by making her body round and cartoony, sorry might sounds offensive for same, but her being over weight and then not doing anything with it, doesn't make any else, also the attractiveness over weight thing seems to be working for the Big Ethel Energy comic, so that could work too. People are not going to buy a comic about a boring Girl with Over weight, it has to be somehow part of the character and Really look Good on the Covers.
That's actually a great idea. Portray her chibi manga/anime style.
I only care about the Bloodshot series. To me, he's like their Batman.
Big Valiant fan, especially Aric. I like the Resurgence stuff.
Bro do some fucking research. There's a whole new company in charge of publishing Valiant comics: Alien Books. Also Dinesh did not sell Valiant to DMG. Valiant was bought out in a hostile takeover.
Ivar was Timewalker wasn't he? - Poor old Valiant. I loved the original stuff and still have those comics. X-O Manowar was particularly good back then. But there's been as many reboots as DC now hasn't there, and the ownership has proved to be a real issue. Alien Books whoever they are seem to have a stake in it now? They seem to largely be going for unknown European art teams by the looks of it, and the art does look very average at best. The books are not the easiest to find either. I can imagine the print runs are very low, although there doesn't seem to be much incentive to pick any of these up.
I thought perch bought that company
I was on board with Valiant from the very beginning in the '90s and absolutely loved the books and loved the characters. I forget what year I stopped, but it was still during the '90s and it was after they went downhill. I haven't read anything from Valiant since, but this video has me wanting to re-read all of those original books if I ever find the time.
I just bought XO Manowar #0 chrome cover. I had it back in my younger years but sold it for like $10 but I recently bought it again for nostalgia purposes.
9:20 wasn’t Roku Ninjak’s handler and then the undead monk stuck the nail in the base of her skull? It’s been like a year since I read it. It was good.
I'm hopeful for the future of Valiant given that at least there is now a regular publishing schedule. The Britannia book released last week was incredible (while the Livewire book was straight garbage). There were actually 4 issues of Bloodshot Unleashed by Deniz Camp but now the continuing series Reloaded only has the first issue from Deniz Camp. My guess that just finishes his initial 5 part arc.
I enjoyed X-O Manowar Unconquered, but it took so long to get the 4 issues out and with the change in art, I'll probably just skip it.
I want to like the Valiant Universe. It doesn't need to be Marvel/DC, it just needs to be good.
The 90's stuff (which is still the best IMO), is very cheap to get right now. I've been collecting them for the better part of the past 6 months, and I've enjoyed every second. Awesome reads. Awesome universe.
How do you think " I want valiant movie franchise'" presumably because you have faith in the IP (the comics) then proceed to let many of the comics post purchase go to shit?
I don't care that Faith is fat. It's stupid that that's the whole gimmick though. Those interiors are _awful_
Damn shame about Valiant. I loved the comics in the 90's, and the 2012 relaunch was some of the best stuff in comics at the time.
Faith was alright in small doses on a team like with Harbinger. I initially found her endearing, but they tried to do too much and ruined the character.
Bloodshot Reloaded is really good. It's him vs. Failed super soldiers gone rogue
hi, I like Valiant comics ... X-O Manowar was first hero from Valiant I heard and i like it more than others.
Interior art looks atrocious. And this goes for most of Marvel and DC current stuff.
X O mano wars & Shaddow man was sweet. Didint read the blood shot cuse i hate Vik diesel. Faith comics looks like not starfire with downs
You should have named your son, Son of Creamcorn,Creamcorn. Or Shithead Jr.
Never bought a Valiant comic
This Valiant Universe sounds really interesting, aside from Faith of course.
Finally, someone that has my thoughts in this comment section. Although they could get different artists. How Alien books and Valiant did A very valentines is Solid in art and story, Bloodshot Unleashed Reloaded #1 is alright in story, very good in art, Livewire and the secret weapons is decent in story, in art...Emiliano Urdinola's part is good but could use a different colorist, Miguel something's part ( I forgot his name. ) is good but Emilio utrera part is weak, and I haven't read the new Britannia comic yet. I hope Valiant and Alien books gives us some solid stuff.
Sooooo... "This is my favorite [little] universe." Proceeds to call "XO Manowar" as the "flagship title".
(It's "Magnus", by the way. Literally the "flagship title")
I'm looking forward to reading The New Deadwardians by Dan Abnett.
That was a really good series!
One of the many regrets I'll have from the 90's, is not having given Valiant a chance. I remember many critics in Wizard Magazine raving about their titles. But back then I was sooo focused on DC and Marvel ... And also had pretty much no disposable income. Today, since "the Big Two" have decided to flush history and quality, I'm open to give samller publishers a try: Ablaze, Aftershock, AWA, sometimes Zenescope, and of course my childish crush on Red Sonja and Vampirella (except when the creative team has proven to be a failure).
Well at least they can afford to put out more than one comic a month.
Wondering what you thought of X-O Manowar with Liam Sharp.
Manowar XO is combo of Thor (viking) Ironman (techsuit) and Captain America (relic of the past), Trinity of Avengers in one ripping off unit
*Conan
XO is Conan if he put on Ironmans armor.
Me personally I would love to see a crossover between Valiant and DC. I think it would be better than the ones they had with Marvel and Image years ago.
What really surprise me is they didn't announce a Harbinger comic book or a The Harbinger: Peter Stanchek comic book which is a shame because it's one of my favorite characters in that universe.
Gave up on universe when last XOmanowar started even then was downloading from free sites. Only reason was doing that was to keep up incase they turned it around to much substandard art with stories that went no where not even worth effort to read for free
Whew... Damn man...
You got lots of bits wrong throughout this.
Raijin is an earlier model of Rai that survived. The Abnet run was about Rai trying to kill Father by destroying other Rai units. Father took possession of Bloodshot's body and was collecting the fallen aspects to regain power.
I think you were confusing the original run because that Rai did have a son. After 4001AD was War Mother and Fallen World. They filled in the blanks.
Deniz got 4 issues of Bloodshot Unleashed before the switch in Reloaded #2.
The Faraway is a land that time forgot: dinosaurs, pilgrims, aliens, metal flora, glass water, and home of the Archer cult The Archies.
Ivar The Timewalker.
The Book of Shadows.
Brigadier General Capshaw
Divinity is more like Dr. Manhattan.
Bloodshot is what if Punisher wanted his humanity back but still fought his war...
Oxana is the Forgotten Queen, sister Ani Pada.
Dinesh did not sell Valiant. Dan Mintz pulled a hostile take over by buying out the shares of Dinesh's partners and forced him out of the company. Valiant is now a shareholders company that essentially owns no physical assets. The people at Alien Books are really trying hard to get this shit off the ground and get people interested in Valiant. They did get Lysa Hawkins back as an editor.
This i agree. why couldn't Paramount own Valiant instead of Dmg?? At least for the movie rights. I think that Alien books at least cares more about Valiant than Dmg ever did. The Valiants by Ryan Cady and Al Barrionuevo looks promising.
I enjoyed Jody Hauser's Mother Panic for DC's Young Animal imprint.
I loved valiant
I was a big fan of the Turok comics as a kid after playing the Evolution, it was a cheap series to collect at the time. I wish they’d reprint the series
I started reading it back in around 2017 from a recommendation from a clerk at my LCS - they had a great plan of selling issue 1 of trades for a run under $10 CDN to get you into the universe, so smart.
I got right up to Harbinger Wars, read X-0, Bloodshot, Ninjak, Archer and Armstrong, Harbinger, and Shadowman. They were so much fun, then I couldn't find a copy of Harbinger Wars it was out of print, I didn't want to pay crazy insane markups. So I had to give up on the series, and haven't heard much good since.
It's a shame.
I got to visit the OG Valiant office in Manhattan in 1995. I am always kind of shocked Valiant is still around and in such a sorry state.
I'm morbidly certain the only way Valiant can resurge, is if the IPs are given to Japanese artists and writers, to do with as they wish- American comic book companies have essentially turned themselves into Atari, anyways. Having anime based on Valiant characters, should drive interest in the comics-turned-manga.
For Faith to SELL, she will have to be changed in ways that will make her UNRECOGNIZABLE to her own creators. If her character design is not redesigned to be "oversexed," then maybe turn her into a cute animal mascot- basically Pikachu the superheroine- so children will want their parents to buy plushies of her.
There was a time were all I wanted to see on solicitations was when the new Valiant deluxe HC´s were coming out; occassionally I see there are still some good ones coming up on new solicitations back from the time were I was reafing Valiantand that really surprises me a lot
Never read a single Valiant comic ever, don’t know any of the characters.
30 years ago, before the crash, Valiant had something. It's been a long time since that Valiant.
Bloodshot, XO Manowar, Rai, turok, Solar. Lots of awesome characters. Def check their original runs. Usually dirt cheap 2nd hand
@@nickpatterson6099 Everybody always forgets about Eternal Warrior. Eternal Warrior's my jam.
X-O manowar (2012) is pretty good. Give it a shot.
I miss Solar to bad he is no longer own and no longer part of The Valiant Comics universe. Last I heard Dynamite has the rights to the character and they haven't done anything with the character in years.
I loved Valiant when they first relaunched about a decade ago now. I collect XO-manowar, Ninjak, and Rai. Then I noticed out of the blue they started pushing Faith as their flag ship character. That's when it all started going downhill, and I stopped buying them.
Shadow Man will forever be my all-time favorite, specifically Mike LeRoi (the acclaim version who stars in the games).
I really hate that all of this bullshit is poisoning everything.
We did get a Bloodshot movie, and I don't remember a single thing about it.
I think I have some Valiant comics in my collection but not sure what box has them. Maybe I will do some digging and let you know. Great video Wes!
Imagine if someone like Elon Musk purchased Valiant? The epic meltdown of the comics guard 😂😅😂😂 Mark Waid would....😂😂😂😅
Book of Shadows is the team up book.
Lol I have it and read it and still couldn't think of the name
Vendetta’s XO run is a Masterpiece! I have my concerns for this new era of Valiant, but I’m keeping all my fingers crossed 🤞🤪
Lol my 2 girls have middle names from characters. Layla from Layla Miller / Created by Bendis and Coipel and used for Peter David's X-Factor and Abigail from Abigail Fuller / Quantum Leap.
Never really gave that label a shot but will do after your recommendations.
I’m pretty sure Dan Abnet also writes WH40k novels. He’s very good.
They use the word enigmatic alot. If everything is enigmatic, nothing is.
Made to be played by Rebel Wilson
Not anymore. She lost a lot of weight.
Valiant Comics Entertainment had its chance. And they blew it. Twice. And after Heather Antos took a dump on their face after they were already financially kicked in the balls with a steel toe combat boot by the plandemic, they should've just called it quits permanently. It's a crying shame because they realy did have some great concepts. Unfortunately, they were just horribly executed.
My favorite comic book from Valiant was the H.A.R.D. Corps. But they never did anything with them after they had their post-1990s reboot. Oh, well. I guess it's just like the old song says,
🎶🎵"That's just the way it is. Some things will never change."🎵🎶
Ninjak is a ninja version of James Bond.
Your commenting on a character that you don't remember anything about? Rai has been amazing. I understand you liked Crain art, I loved it to, but Abnestt Rai is fantastic!. He continued everything from Kindts run that you loved so much. Raijin is from that run. Abnett series continues on directly from Kindts run. Maybe re read it. Number 2 of Abnetts run is amazing! So many layers. Btw DMG, specifically The hated Dan Mintz forced Dinesh out. Such a crazy story.
Dan Abnett is also responsible for some of my FAVORITE entries in the Black Library.
Exo Manowar get downstairs and do your homework now!! 😅. Seriously though Valiant is my favorite also. Love Shadowman, A&A, just such a cool universe and always loved the art
I loved Valiant in the 90’s. I bought some titles on the reboot. Always was a big Eternal Warrior fan. This company is pretty much dead. Needs a new buyer…
Valiant was so good when they came back in 2012!! It’s complete rubbish now…
Thanks for this one. Long time Valiant fan from the Shooter days, ended up walking away when Dinesh was terminated by DMG. They’d been doing great stuff, but I knew bringing in Illidge and Antos was going to ruin my favorite comics.
Used to enjoy Valiant but all the no talents like Cloon-rad being hired destroying the properties & DMG ownership's leadership being a rudderless void I avoid this company like the plague. What a waste.
Thankyou for heads up about the xo Manowar books, I loved the original ongoing, I’ll stick to what brought me here
Big fan of Valiant since the 90s. Outside of the stupid amount of variant covers, I have almost everything ever done by Valiant. I actually have a decent amount of the variants too… I’m just not made of money, so there are limits.
Other than a few random months, they have published 1 - 4 new issues each month over the last few years (usually 2 each month).
My favorites are Harbinger, Archer and Armstrong, and Quantum and Woody… sadly, none seem to be involved in the new event.
I agree that 2018 was when the decline started.
Wes, I never thought of Bloodshot in the way you described him but it is true. I was thinking Punisher meets Wolverine in my mind.