The rise and fall of Valiant - what did it all mean? Not the stories so much, but did the attempt to crack open the Big Two/Three have any lasting impact on the industry?
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Or was it before? Time is hazy, much as it was in that famed conflict of Gold Key characters.
― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
There may be other threads in there. That's why they're called threadS.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 August 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Lasting benefits: directly contributed to the rise of small-press publishers doing traditional comics (i.e. not Dave Sim/Jeff Smith/Donna Barr types). Also, the first Turok: Dinosaur Hunter game was *awesome*.
― ng, Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
....another 'realistic' comic, please, Jim.
― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
One more time - Ninjak. Ninjak.
X-Men #1 sold SEVEN MILLION COPIES. I'll never be able to wrap my head around that.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ody45cla96A
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone reading the new comics? I never read the original runs -- I was out of comics when they were happening -- but these are surprisingly good. Might even argue that Archer and Armstrong is one of the best 4 or 5 hero books at the moment.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
i'm going to post old valiant covers i likestart withhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Harbinger_01-00.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fQqX7gclUq4/TMT52tW9CJI/AAAAAAAAAvI/OHflblB_n8g/s640/harbinger4.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/4/32253-4607-35969-1-solar-man-of-the-at.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.valiantfan.com/valiant/images/comics/r3.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwRJDvY0OqRN7SLZogh3cJ7i5yBZ6wp-FLhTleTak8p536ZSSy
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link
http://www.valiantfan.com/valiant/CD/vh1/Rai/rai0.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:00 (ten years ago) link
eternal warrior cover divorced from title/logo/etchttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fQqX7gclUq4/TKZrUupLIUI/AAAAAAAAApg/fPf120JPi-0/s1600/EternalWarrior1.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:04 (ten years ago) link
hate whatever cobblers this is about obscuring the real Valiant
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_SZlcrclwE/UBPe_xR8LfI/AAAAAAAADI4/_TuxP3qqpyY/s1600/Valiant+cover_105.jpg
― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2013 10:54 (ten years ago) link
i just purchased the collected edition of the 1997 garth ennis shadowman run as well as the first trade of the new x-o manowar run. anything else good in nu-valiant?
even as a tween i could tell their shit was d-list but there was a noble component to their bottom feeding. creators less trashy in their anonymity than their glam image counterparts. even the logo is drab, looks like 1960s insurance company letterhead as opposed to the forever up-thrusting image phallus. hardworking, respectable garbage comics.
― adam, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Thought the revive was going to be about this story - definite suspicions of ballot stuffing by Nu-Valiant associates:
http://www.newsarama.com/29977-2016-harvey-awards-nominees-announced.html
Still, I'm sure that X-O MANOWAR #38 is a worthy successor to Kurtzman's Mad in the humour comics game
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
The Harveys have been stuffed by individual companies almost every year this century, Archie more than once (visible this year too). Kim Thompson used to lobby people to fill out ballots to counteract the extreme gameability of the process, but nobody has taken up his mantle (as in so many etc). Tbf, nobody takes them seriously as a result of this, so can't be bothered, either...
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 7 July 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
jeez they could have been a little less obvious
― mh, Thursday, 7 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link