I've never read Valint before (didn't even know they existed back in the day) but I'm interested. Considering all the wackiness Marvel and DC gave been going through, a company that's famous for their attention to continuity would be refreshing.
edited 2nd Jun '11 10:02:47 PM by Seamus
I've got two guns pointed west and a broken compass.I used to read my older cousin's comics when I was a kid. My favorite was Eternal Warrior for all the historical settings. I also loved how at the end of every comic was a "comic book store of the month" bit. I'm very much looking forward to it. Valiant was a breath of fresh air for me; a less angsty Marvel, brought to us by Jim Shooter.
With blood and rage of crimson red ripped from a corpse so freshly dead together with our hellish hate we'll burn you all that is your fateWhat, no Turok?! Damn you, Aklaim!
edited 12th Aug '11 7:32:14 PM by EnglishMajor
With blood and rage of crimson red ripped from a corpse so freshly dead together with our hellish hate we'll burn you all that is your fate
That's misguided for 2 reasons.
1. Acclaim Turok was pretty awesome and kinda mind-bending (and the games were awesome too).
2. Classic Media owns the rights and apparently want too much for the rights to Turok and others.
In response...
- Acclaim bought Valiant in 94
...
- ...and then ran the Turok license in the ground. Turok Evolution was so bad that its villain, Civil War cavalry captain Tobias Bruckner was used by Electronic Monthly Magazine to honor the worse games of the year.
I blame Acclaim for running the license in the ground original and why Valiant doesn't have it now.
With blood and rage of crimson red ripped from a corpse so freshly dead together with our hellish hate we'll burn you all that is your fateBy making a great comic, a good game, a better game, another good game, a 'meh' game and another good game?
Well they did collaborate with Rob Liefeld. That's self-inflicted if I ever saw it.
edited 5th Sep '11 10:51:59 AM by EnglishMajor
With blood and rage of crimson red ripped from a corpse so freshly dead together with our hellish hate we'll burn you all that is your fateThere is a page for that crossover, Death Mate.
Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?Just read through the first dozen or so issues of Archer & Armstrong. It's good. They kept the mix of the odd buddy friendship and all of the historical in-jokes.
For some odd reason the topic refuses to acknowledge that I've already read the latest comment. Might as well make a post, if only to slap some sense to it.
Anyway, I've been loving the new Valiant oh so much. I'm a little upset that Shadowman's the worst of the bunch so far, but even then it still a good deal better than some of the competition, and the new writer's got me all sorts of excited. Also I think Joshua Dysart is now one of my favorite writers ever.
Unity's summary confuses me, I did not know XO Man Of War was a villain.
Should have been obvious in retrospect: Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackOkay, so my original post didn't help. Weird. Hopefully someone up top knows what's going on, because I sure as hell don't.
The thing about Unity is that it really doesn't have a straight-up villain. Aric actually has a very noble goal: he just rescued the survivors of his people from an alien planet, and now he wants to return them home. The problem is that most of the world doesn't take too kindly to an alien ship suddenly landing and taking over an existing country, and Aric is still convinced he can solve everything by punching really hard.
Keep in mind as well that the "hero" of this story is Toyo Harada, the universe's resident Magnificent Bastard. As legitimate as his reasoning is (he doesn't want more nuclear fallout), one can't help but think that his real reasoning is that Aric is an unimaginable and potential threat to his power.
edited 1st Dec '13 7:11:53 PM by Watchtower
And Valiant is part of the latest Humble Books Bundle
. I went for the fixed $15 one. I like Valiant's work, so it was worth it to me. Now if only they included all of the old line books as well...

http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/valiant-relaunches-comic-imprint-with-ex-marvel-ceo-peter-cuneo-in-charge/
Valiant comics is set to relaunch it's line in 2012. I for one am excited especially for Ninjak, Solar and X-O Mon O War.
Any one else interested?