the TSN story in brief
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the TSN story in brief
fairly new to the board, believe I found it through the OTV podcast which I stumbled across somehow.
I hadn't bought a new comic probably since Broadway, until the DH Shooter books which I recently ordered. Hadn't bought any comics since Broadway except a handful of occasions with dime and quarter bins at stores that went out of business over 5 years ago, comics have been dead to me.
Got into Valiant shortly after Unity while trying to stay in love with comics after Marvel burned Claremont, and the Image guys made garbage books at Marvel then made revolting books for themselves. I was searching for a comic company where things made sense, and Valiant at first seemed like it be my new home. But the quality would go down, and I left. Would spend a few years trying to find a reason to stay involved, from isolated Valiant books to Defiant to Triumphant to Broadway. From I, Lusipher to Poison Elves, to Wandering Star to A Distant Soil to Starchild. Vertigo, Cult, Kitchen Sink, tried them all.
I had stopped enjoying well before I stopped reading, and stopped reading well before I stopped buying. :cry:
But of Valiant, I did like the Bob Hall Shadowman books, and had some admiration for the Grau quaintly illustrated Solar issues. Tried about every Valiant title. Greatly admire Shooter the editor and writer from his Marvel days and Defiant and Broadway, and like the editing and spearheading of Valiant, and greatly admire what he did with Valiant, but didn't much enjoy most of the Valiant books themselves, particularly Harbinger.
Honestly I find the Valiant story itself, with the intrigue and machinations and controversies and rises and falls and triumphs and failures more interesting to me than most of the books. I think that's why the books I was into most were ones that at least to me seemed separate from year 4k books or the Harbinger-verse type titles.
thanks to all for making this board a place where I can learn more about Valiant and everything in the industry that happened because of Valiant.
I hadn't bought a new comic probably since Broadway, until the DH Shooter books which I recently ordered. Hadn't bought any comics since Broadway except a handful of occasions with dime and quarter bins at stores that went out of business over 5 years ago, comics have been dead to me.
Got into Valiant shortly after Unity while trying to stay in love with comics after Marvel burned Claremont, and the Image guys made garbage books at Marvel then made revolting books for themselves. I was searching for a comic company where things made sense, and Valiant at first seemed like it be my new home. But the quality would go down, and I left. Would spend a few years trying to find a reason to stay involved, from isolated Valiant books to Defiant to Triumphant to Broadway. From I, Lusipher to Poison Elves, to Wandering Star to A Distant Soil to Starchild. Vertigo, Cult, Kitchen Sink, tried them all.
I had stopped enjoying well before I stopped reading, and stopped reading well before I stopped buying. :cry:
But of Valiant, I did like the Bob Hall Shadowman books, and had some admiration for the Grau quaintly illustrated Solar issues. Tried about every Valiant title. Greatly admire Shooter the editor and writer from his Marvel days and Defiant and Broadway, and like the editing and spearheading of Valiant, and greatly admire what he did with Valiant, but didn't much enjoy most of the Valiant books themselves, particularly Harbinger.
Honestly I find the Valiant story itself, with the intrigue and machinations and controversies and rises and falls and triumphs and failures more interesting to me than most of the books. I think that's why the books I was into most were ones that at least to me seemed separate from year 4k books or the Harbinger-verse type titles.
thanks to all for making this board a place where I can learn more about Valiant and everything in the industry that happened because of Valiant.
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Triumphant Serial Number
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Basically the only ones I bought more than two consecutive months' worth were Shadowman and Solar. I like Dr. Mirage a little also, but didn't buy it monthly.
I tried at least a new issue of every other Valiant title, sometimes two, and bought every TPB that was released back in the day because the back issues of Rai, Harbinger, X-O and Solar were too expensive. Didn't like Bloodshot enough to buy issue 2, didn't buy beyond issue 2 of Turok at the time. My brother I think bought Ninjak to issue 5 or so.
I guess that's why I'm not particularly disappointed that VEI hasn't been publishing new books. Solar is with Shooter now. And Shadowman to me was a Bob Hall book, I wouldn't have much interest in it without Hall doing it.
So I can't even say that if VEI came out with a new version of Bloodshot or Eternal Warrior or Shadowman that I'd be paying cover price for them new.
Maybe if Layton did a Dr. Mirage I'd check it out, but that's similar to Shadowman and Hall.
I tried at least a new issue of every other Valiant title, sometimes two, and bought every TPB that was released back in the day because the back issues of Rai, Harbinger, X-O and Solar were too expensive. Didn't like Bloodshot enough to buy issue 2, didn't buy beyond issue 2 of Turok at the time. My brother I think bought Ninjak to issue 5 or so.
I guess that's why I'm not particularly disappointed that VEI hasn't been publishing new books. Solar is with Shooter now. And Shadowman to me was a Bob Hall book, I wouldn't have much interest in it without Hall doing it.
So I can't even say that if VEI came out with a new version of Bloodshot or Eternal Warrior or Shadowman that I'd be paying cover price for them new.
Maybe if Layton did a Dr. Mirage I'd check it out, but that's similar to Shadowman and Hall.
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Triumphant Serial Number
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thanks for all the welcomes guys.
My screenname, I didn't want to do a Valiant character because I figured they'd all be used in some way or another.
So I decided to do the next best thing: pull a Triumphant. Triumphant bit off Valiant so hard and extreme that I had to do a riff on it.
I could have been[i] "Triumphant is serious about continuity, we even timestamp and date every single event!"[/i], but it felt too long.
Or maybe [i]"Triumphant Coupon for Issue Zero"[/i]
Or [i]"Triumphant Unity, uhhhhhh, i mean, Triumphant UNLEASHED!"[/i]
Or maybe [i]"Triumphant muddy colors like a 4th gen xeroxed Valiant"
[/i]
But I settled on the 'print run craze' that popped up in the industry after Valiant became famous for their early print runs being 'low'.
So [i]"Triumphant Serial Number"[/i] was born. I'm number 11,432 out of 30,000 copies of an ashcan to some random issue of Riot Gear.
My screenname, I didn't want to do a Valiant character because I figured they'd all be used in some way or another.
So I decided to do the next best thing: pull a Triumphant. Triumphant bit off Valiant so hard and extreme that I had to do a riff on it.
I could have been[i] "Triumphant is serious about continuity, we even timestamp and date every single event!"[/i], but it felt too long.
Or maybe [i]"Triumphant Coupon for Issue Zero"[/i]
Or [i]"Triumphant Unity, uhhhhhh, i mean, Triumphant UNLEASHED!"[/i]
Or maybe [i]"Triumphant muddy colors like a 4th gen xeroxed Valiant"
[/i]
But I settled on the 'print run craze' that popped up in the industry after Valiant became famous for their early print runs being 'low'.
So [i]"Triumphant Serial Number"[/i] was born. I'm number 11,432 out of 30,000 copies of an ashcan to some random issue of Riot Gear.