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I really looked forward to this book (and still do), but it didn't feel like it was a strong #1. I'll admit, part of it was because I read all the previews and so I felt like I had read almost the whole issue already, which I had. another part was that my excitement for this book was kind of drained...

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I like how Valiant always has a new arc starting every month, even when they don't have a #1 out.

I can definitely support a Shadowman book that looks and reads like Shadowman #0 every month.

greg wrote:I'll go out on a limb and say not only is it permanent, it will be expanded further...

Bloodshot
AND
H.A.R.D.Corps
AND
Armorines
AND
Psi-Lords
AND
Sven

that's a great idea, but you forgot Secret Weapons.

nice, but I have all of those already (except for Shadowman vol 2)

BugsySig wrote: Will we eventually see a time traveling Ivar, or are his time traveling days over now

but even if he stopped time traveling in the present, he's still always out there in the past and future...

hunter_peterson wrote: That one didn't even go down the can because of declining quality, like LoSH did/is.

I think it was more the endless reboots that did it in for LoSH. COIE, 5YL, Zero Hour, 3-boot, Infinite Crisis, New 52...

bygranddesign wrote:I think that's a pretty cool idea - but I would hope its only for a few story arc's and Obadiah Archer and Armstrong would pair back together at some point.

sorry, no going back. everything in comics is permanent.

Rai has to be coming next year. After that, Timewalker and Dr. Mirage have the most potential IMO. Then there's Ninjak either in his own series or an ensemble (like Secret Weapons :D ). I think Ninjak and Timewalker are the most likely to get their own books, since they've appeared several times al...

I think the original Valiant had some great market advantages when they first launched. Marvel had just suffered a huge brain drain of artists jumping ship to Image and Shooter going to Valiant. up until then, there had never been a serious 3rd party contender, Marvel and DC only had to worry about ...

how many characters today still look like they did 20 years ago, even without a reboot? Superman? Batman? Spider-man? when the DC universe was rebooted, some of the characters were downright unrecognizable (Harley Quinn???), the only one I think was so dramatically altered in concept and appearance ...

oh, good, now I can just read the last 10 pages in the store and not buy it.

just kidding, I absolutely have to buy this now.

leonmallett wrote: ...but maybe not Birthquake....

if that ever happens then I hope the new Prophet series at image revives "Babewatch"

i do believe them when they say they're quite content with the numbers on q&w. i think this is what the relaunch of a "cult series" which never sold a lot of comics in the first place, can do. going by comichron, this new Q&W #1 seems to have sold better than the original in 1997....

now that I've mapped these out on my calendar, I notice that VEI never seems to put out any new books the last week of the month (Sep 25, Oct 30 is a 5th week, so that maybe doesn't count, and Nov 27), is there any particular reason for that? they'll have 8 regular series then, couldn't they be rele...

Valiant does seem to crank out those TPB's pretty quickly, don't they? before I started reading Valiant, I never got people who trade-waited, but of course, every other company makes you wait 6 months to a year to catch up in trades. I don't have the patience. I need my monthly fix. I was a latecom...

I'm perfectly fine with them re-purposing a title. in fact I'd prefer that to them just trying to re-tell Unity without Solar. no matter what, they're never going to capture the same lightning-in-a-bottle that was the original Unity, but if they're using the brand name then I just hope they find a w...

Valiant does seem to crank out those TPB's pretty quickly, don't they? before I started reading Valiant, I never got people who trade-waited, but of course, every other company makes you wait 6 months to a year to catch up in trades.

wow, never saw that coming. I hope it's not like how they killed Captain America the first issue after Civil War, it sounds like it could be an imagined death, but then again, Torque does have a history of that, doesn't he? anyway, as a resident of the Venice boardwalk, I felt they captured the loca...

and this whole time I thought it was "Sex Civil War"

then again, he does say, "and we do mean climax"

lorddunlow wrote: You don't post on the XDA forums by chance, do you? (One of the developers I follow is named mateorod)

nope, that's not me, sorry.

if you thought that was great, wait'll you see my second post. oh, wait...

Like a lot of people, my first exposure to Valiant came in the early 90‘s. At that time I was still a teenager on a limited budget and hadn’t yet attained the financial independence of a minimum wage job. Fortunately, back then comic stores had a thing called a 25-cent bin. Buying new comics was a r...