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Anonymous Tue 12 May 14:07:31 2020 No.114920074 View Reply Original Report

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What does /co/ think of Valiant Comics? I've recently started Eternal Warrior and Harbinger and they're both pretty good but I don't think I've ever seen them mentioned here before, and as I understand it Valiant used to be quite popular back in the day

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 14:28:23 No.114920389 Report

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>>114920074
At one point in the 90s Valiant had some titles that were consistently outselling Marvel and DC. I think it was a right place/right time thing because it was around the time DC was stagnating and Marvel was in the throes of financial turmoil, creators were a bit unhappy with the big two and fans were looking for something different. Jim Shooter and Steve Englehart deserve a lot of the credit. Image Comics would overtake them in a few short years but for a hot second it looked like Valiant was going to be the big new publisher. It was actually a crossover with Image that was one of the final nails in 90s Valiant's coffin. The Image guys couldn't get their shit together and Valiant had to over extend their resources to get the books out on time.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 14:38:50 No.114920547 Report

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>>114920074
Are you reading the reboot or the original run?

I love Valiant, even did a 100 episode podcast on it before it fizzled out. The cool thing was the relatively smaller scale so that you could keep up with all the published series per month without it being as expensive and Marvel and DC. Just the year before they rebooted DC started New52, with 52 new issues per month at 3.99-4.99 each, making for quite the amount if you for some reason wanted to read all of them.

Eternal Warrior is possibly my favorite, at least in concept. Love historical fiction and his setup works really well for that.

I'm also behind, having stopped a few years ago due to lack of money and being busy. Once I get some more money I'm gonna catch up on all the fun, though I heard there was a nosedive in quality.

Oh, and Faith is fine. Read her more in the vain of Quantum and Woody or Archer and Armstrong, rather than Harbinger.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 14:41:21 No.114920583 Report

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Also a bit surprised that Shadowman doesn't get more love. It was one of Valiant's benchmark titles right out of the gate and honestly if I had to pick a Valiant property to franchise I'd have picked Shadowman over Bloodshot.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 15:33:45 No.114921474 Report

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>>114920547
Reboot desu, though I'm interested in the original run as well

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 16:40:45 No.114922673 Report

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>>114920074
It used to have perfect continuity. Characters interacted and events in the world effected everyone. They kept the events grounded too, the biggest crossover was a bunch of psychic murderchildren (not really children, but that's a bit of explaining) claiming a mall area as their home.
Anyway, they fucked it up hard.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 16:50:45 No.114922854 Report

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>>114920074
John Ostrander wrote a run on both Eternal Warrior and Magnus Robot Fighter so I'll have to read them eventually.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 16:55:08 No.114922931 Report

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>>114920389
90’s Valiant had its moments, but was pretty boring overall, with a very pedestrian house style.
Unity had potential as an event, but the weird incest shit at its core took all the fun out of it, imo.
BWS did some great work for Valiant, but they didn’t have another artist with even half as much appeal.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 16:58:06 No.114922983 Report

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>>114920547
>Eternal Warrior is possibly my favorite
the original series?

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 18:03:25 No.114924151 Report

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Guessing Valiant isn't very popular, huh? Any reason in particular? Is it a acquired taste or marketing thing?

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 18:10:55 No.114924265 Report

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For some comics fan it was just boring that it was more story focus rather then art focus. I like it but but fans and pro don't like the idea of assembly line book. Look at the Cartonist Kayfabe channel for that view. Now while I get their point there is something kind of neat about a bunch of creators pulling together to make a universe work.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 18:23:44 No.114924490 Report

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It's popularity tends to wax and wane. It's got some good runs but it's pretty by the numbers. Unlike Image or Dark Horse they never diversified beyond superhero stuff. In its 90s heyday it was kind of the opposite of Image. Both were made up of creators who fled the big 2, but where as Image was all hot young rockstars Valiant was more experienced creators.

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