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and for my money, MVP is:

JOHN CONSTANTINE

"None of you understand. I am not locked up in here with you. You are locked up in here with meeeeeee"


Epic.

Harbinger 1 cover by Arturo Lozzi is the most iconic, I even had David Lapham do a version of it.
Harbinger 5 cover by Mico Suayan is my second favorite, again, I managed to get Lapham do a version of it.
Archer & Armstrong 6 cover by Emanuela Lupacchino. I liked it so much bought the inked version ...

Fame and fortune Dan

If you are interested:

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I went for both X-O and Magnus pieces as well but once it went above $1000 each, it was sky rocketing.

if you look at his other listings, he is either clueless, or seeking an idiot to pay that much for those listings. or both.

Shadowman # 0 was very good. Could be a game changer from a feel and atmosphere of the book.

Shadowman 1 - 4 were borderline boring. From 5 onwards, there is improvement, number 0 being the best of the bunch so far.

KXXX wrote:They should kill Jack, start fresh.

Not necessarily. Just fire the current creative team. All of them.

And let somebody do a Swamp Thing # 21 on the series.

This is one book that needs a change right now.

Hi Joshua,

Any plans to take over Shadowman? Would love to see you write the title.

Very interesting question. I am also not clear about Shooter's intentions post Rai # 0. Also that issue was severely doctored as well.

Master Darque, Bloodshot, Ivar...I am looking at new key intros immediately post Shooter and have no idea what his intentions were (or contributions)

I think the feel of the book should be a gritty, noir, crimefighter with supernatural/dark magic/voodoo overtones.

Like Batman but with magic not gadgets.

Well put. And Twist was pretty much the exact opposite of that. Twist would be a little goofy even in a&A, I'm not sure what they were ...

Birthquake: Death or Improvement?

Birthquake is dated July 1995. Acclaim bought Valiant in April 1994.

Arguably there is not a GREAT title in Valiant canon from beginning of 1994. I think they were too focused on selling the company by that point. There are however some remaining GOOD titles, such ...

Overall, I think Shadowman sort of lacked some of the originality I saw in the other VEI titles. It felt like a superhero title I could find at either of the big two.


I think that hits the nail on the head. Uninspired. Though, great art. I mean, if you put this up against Harbinger, there's no ...

the problem is less to do with art, more to do with the story. This is one title in VE that needs a new writer, asap.

I looked at the track record of Justin Jordan. He hasn't written anything of any significance before joining Valiant. And he is continuing that trend.

They must find a better ...

Overall, I think Shadowman sort of lacked some of the originality I saw in the other VEI titles. It felt like a superhero title I could find at either of the big two.


I think that hits the nail on the head. Uninspired. Though, great art. I mean, if you put this up against Harbinger, there's no ...

the problem is less to do with art, more to do with the story. This is one title in VE that needs a new writer, asap.

I looked at the track record of Justin Jordan. He hasn't written anything of any significance before joining Valiant. And he is continuing that trend.

They must find a better ...

The reason the current Shadowman is underwhelming so far is because it is much closer to the Acclaim version than the Valiant version.

If you look at the original Valiant series, the title hit its stride with the Shadowman # 8 - 12 epic. (Still remains the best Shadowman storyline in my opinion ...

The 90's were still better than the 2000's as far as comics go, in my opinion. Aside from Crossgen and a few DC titles I felt the 2000's were nothing more than cheap tricks by Marvel and DC to get people to buy more comics due to events and mega-crossovers which I despise more than the variant ...

What puzzles me the most is, industry people talk about an implosion, speculators moving out etc about the mid to late 1990's but the fact of the matter is, the product in the market was horrendous.

The only argument could be, even the horrible stuff was selling like bucketloads in early 1990s ...

What puzzles me the most is, industry people talk about an implosion, speculators moving out etc about the mid to late 1990's but the fact of the matter is, the product in the market was horrendous.

The only argument could be, even the horrible stuff was selling like bucketloads in early 1990s ...

Well, I would divide 90's into 2 camps.

Between 1990 - 1993, there is a lot of excellent work in the market.

DC firing on all cyclinders with Superman/Batman/Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Wonder Woman storylines which I was fond of.

Marvel firing even harder with X-Men, X-Force, Spider-Man, Ghost ...

I can't recall a bad pre-Unity Valiant book. Most were great, some were good.

I thought Magnus, X-O, Harbinger, Rai were GREAT. Solar was good. (Alpha & Omega is GREAT). Shadowman was half cooked and really found its voice under Bob Hall.

So Spider-Aliens weren't stupid, sorry.

Having said that ...

Folks, if you are at all interested in this piece, send me a pm.



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I am the proud owner of the cover. My favourite A&A cover of the new launch so far.

Been buying a few more pages from Ema lately as well.