What is your favorite Valiant title?

Johnseye · Post by **Johnseye** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:58 pm

This has probably been polled before but it can't hurt to raise the question again. What is your favorite Valiant title? From start to finish this should be, in your opinion, the best story and art in the Universe.

acc205 · Post by **acc205** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:00 pm

Archer and Armstrong because Armstrong would have picked Magnus but meant Solar

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:05 pm

Shadowman Because Bob Hall was allowed to keep the title monthly and it stayed on course...

-Brian

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:27 am

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:10 am

My favorite is....

Archershadowarmmanstrong

(didn't vote couldn't decide

)

D-Lite · Post by **D-Lite** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:05 am

I'm a huge Gilad fan. Next would be the good Dr. Phil Seleski. For me these are best told stories and the BWS art sure helps.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:51 am

Hmm, wonder what I voted for???

-slym

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:54 am

D-Lite wrote:I'm a huge Gilad fan. Next would be the good Dr. Phil Seleski. For me these are best told stories and the BWS art sure helps.

plus X-O

RAI

Shadowman

Harbinger...

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:02 pm

tough...do you mean through the entire run?

think most would agree shadowman held up best overall

can we pick and choose runs???

Solar 1-10...and actually I didn't mind solar up into the low 40's...but then it really got bad

Magnus 1-12 (I know multiple story arcs but great stuff...) and I didn't mind Magnus through the malev story arc...but the crap with his son Dor...er Torque was bad...and Giffen made it worse after that...

Harbinger 1-6 was also great and was readable into the 20's but 25 was anticlimactic IMO...and forget after 25

Rai was great...Rai and the FF was not so great...

X-O through the first half of the series...good stuff...birthquake and beyond Su uuuucked.

A&A during BWS run...funny as hell

EW...great concept...fell flat in the late 20's IMO

the rest doesn't compare

IanAlexavier · Post by **IanAlexavier** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:19 pm

Im not sure how to do this.. but what about having epople vote twice.. we may find that we have a more consistent 2nd place book than we do a first place book.. which then means that the most common 2nd place book was most likely the best book..

(sally sells sea shells by the sea shore)

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:51 pm

Magnus will always be my favorite.

bamaphilosopher · Post by **bamaphilosopher** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:21 pm

I put Magnus too. Granted, the title sucked after they advanced all those years and brought the son Torque on board.

But if they had kept to the spirit of the first eight issues, it would have been awesome. And I really do believe he was their flagship character. Plus, his was the first superhero book they put out, and it hooked me into everything else.

childres · Post by **childres** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:35 pm

Archer and Armstrong

Johnseye · Post by **Johnseye** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:20 pm

Runs don't really count for this poll. This is for the title as a whole. If we were to do a run poll it should be pre-Unity. It seems like all the books later issues were bad from these responses.

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:23 am

SOLAR

aj583 · Post by **aj583** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:42 am

For sheer coolness, I've got to go X-O. That's of course not counting the later issues where somebody forgot about story telling....

HippityHoppity · Post by **HippityHoppity** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:47 am

Hands down RAI

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:26 am

Shadowman. It was the first title I grabbed a few issues of (early teens numbers) and it grabbed me. Still haven't tried everthying on the list but most of them, and it is still Shadowman for me.

Rufusharley · Post by **Rufusharley** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:38 am

It is hard to choose only one because the titles change so much as they go. Like going from well written to not, great art to not so great...ect.

( I hate art that looks too 'comic booky'. Does that make any sense? That's why i like BWS so much)

Anyway, back to this thread. Even though i am a Solar Fanatic, i'm going to have to say A&A to answer this.

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:35 am

Why is it so much harder to choose a favourite VALIANT title than a Marvel or DC title?

You ask me who I like in Marvel - easy: Spiderman. Its the first one I picked up, I love the character.

You ask me who I like in DC - easy: Batman. He's awesome, the batcave, catwoman, cool!

But with VALIANT they're all so good on the same point - the story/ character development, it just makes it impossible. Its like trying to choose between the same book.

Why is that?

hillmanthe2nd · Post by **hillmanthe2nd** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:42 am

How can I pick just one???

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:42 am

cobra_commander wrote:Why is it so much harder to choose a favourite VALIANT title than a Marvel or DC title?

You ask me who I like in Marvel - easy: Spiderman. Its the first one I picked up, I love the character.

You ask me who I like in DC - easy: Batman. He's awesome, the batcave, catwoman, cool!

But with VALIANT they're all so good on the same point - the story/ character development, it just makes it impossible. Its like trying to choose between the same book.

Why is that?

I think that is it..... when I was collecting VALIANTS off the shelf.... everything I got was good (well almost everything

)

the books all fit into one concept... one idea.... they were intermingled....

so two closing thoughts.....

intermingledness = cool

my favorite book was Shadowarcherandarmmanstrong

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:14 am

Elveen wrote:intermingledness = cool

That is catchy man.

They could use that as the slogan for the new VALIANT. If they're hard up for a slogan I mean

myron · Post by **myron** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:45 am

cobra_commander wrote:
Elveen wrote:intermingledness = cool
That is catchy man.

They could use that as the slogan for the new VALIANT. If they're hard up for a slogan I mean

intermingledness...is that even a word? if not it should be...

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:33 pm

myron wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:
Elveen wrote:intermingledness = cool
That is catchy man.

They could use that as the slogan for the new VALIANT. If they're hard up for a slogan I mean
intermingledness...is that even a word? if not it should be...

Just make sure Stephen Colbert doesn't hear you say it, or he'll claim he made it up.

-slym

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