Yo-Hey from Montreal

avidreader514 · Post by **avidreader514** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:14:13 pm

Howdy,

I've been a Valiant fan since the day a copy of Magnus Robot Fighter #1 caught my eye on the new arrivals shelf at my comic books store. I remembered the character from a cousin's battered collection of Gold Key reprints and gave it a try.

Valiant kept me in the comics hobby right when I was about to leave.

I found ValiantFans.com through a couple of referral links in the traffic reports for my blog - where I review comics both old and new - and from the recent comments of a reader who asked me to recommend my favourite Valiant titles.

Here's what I told him:

The best Valiant issues are generally the early ones, which have been reprinted as trades: Magnus - Steel Nation; Magnus - Invasion; Harbinger - Children of the Eighth Day; Solar - Alpha and Omega; Solar - Second Death; X-O Manowar - Retribution; and the four volume Unity set.

For single issues I recommend:

Archer & Armstrong: #0 - 8
Eternal Warrior #1-12
Harbinger #0-25
Magnus, Robot Figher #0-25 (possibly to 33, but no further)
Second Life of Doctor Mirage #1-10
Shadowman #0-1, 4-5, 8-24
Solar, Man of the Atom #1-16
Turok, Dinosaur Hunter #4-15
X-O Manowar #1-25

I'm sure I'm not the only person to every recommend the VH1 books over the rest of the lot.

I quit collecting Valiant before the Chaos Effect storyline. The first book to hook me on Valiant was the first to lead me away - I hated Tony Bedard's fast-forward in the Malev War storyline, though I can appreciate that it wasn't his idea.

Since then I've had fond memories of the Valiant books, occasionally pulling the trade paperbacks down off my bookshelf for nostalgic read over a weekend. the early books get better all the time.

Right now, I'm buying the hardcover reprints of the Gold Key Solar and Magnus books, published by Dark Horse Comics. Seventeen years in the hobby, and I guess you can say I've come full circle.

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:48:56 pm

Welcome to the boards, avid.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:19:40 pm

Welcome to the boards. I'm curious why you excluded issues #2,3,6 & 7 from your Shadowman list.

xoken · Post by **xoken** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:54:37 pm

Run!!! Run away!!!!

Soon it'll be too late. You'll spend all day here. You'll start using terms like Cear, vcvss, vip and taking a deathmate. You'll walk into a comics store and head straight for the 25c bins. You'll click on every ebay auction that has a Bloodshot #0. I just hope my warning has not come too late

seriously, welcome to the boards.

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:08:42 pm

Welcome to the Boards man.

David

childres · Post by **childres** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:26:03 am

Hello! Hope you enjoy the boards!

-Joe

GGSAE · Post by **GGSAE** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:15:09 pm

Salut mon amie!

You'll find a couple other canucks kicking around with all these damn yankees

k_c_collectibles · Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:05:33 pm

Welcome to the boards!

Chris

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:47:46 am

Howdy, welcome to the boards

avidreader514 · Post by **avidreader514** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:17:12 pm

Thanks, y'all (Merci les amis!)!

As for Daniel Jackson's question about my excluding the early Shadowmen, I think that, aside from the first issue, and the two Unity issues, the title didn't grab my attention with both hands until Bob Hall got started writing the title. Then the plot ran full steam ahead!

I'm still trying to figure out what CEAR means, but I'm good with VcSS and VCB and some of the other lingo.

It's cool to see how the fan base is still strong 12 years later.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:24:36 pm

avidreader514 wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what CEAR means, .

Pssst....this ought to help....

http://www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/issue.asp?cn=1205

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:09:23 pm

xoken wrote: . . . taking a deathmate.

I hadn't heard that before . . . .

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:55:21 pm

siren3-4 wrote:
xoken wrote: . . . taking a deathmate.

I hadn't heard that before . . . .

Stick around, you'll hear it used many more times.

steverino · Post by **steverino** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:27:43 pm

Welcome to the boards, Guy.

I think you'll enjoy it. Everybody here seems to keep things...er...pretty lively (yeah, that's a nice way of saying it)

bernardchang · Post by **bernardchang** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:02:42 pm

welcome! i always give a shout out to my montreal brothers.

long live the les expos and youppi!

X-O Dan-O-War · Post by **X-O Dan-O-War** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:16:33 pm

Greetings!