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It's refreshing to see so many KC folk represented. I myself live in Lawrence and teach in Leavenworth, so I'm all over the place. Lawrence is actually hosting its second annual show in September (the 15th and 16th, I believe) and I found a few Valiant nuggets there last year. It's nothing that ...

My personal top ten (1 being suckiest and qualifications follow):

1.) Shooter being canned

2.) Akklaim buying Valiant

3.) Valiant Vision (which begat . . . . )

4.) Psi-Lords

5.) Chaos Effect

6.) Valiant having anything to do with Image (doesn't it sadden you that most of us actually bought ...

tarheelmarine wrote:Great deal. Are you related to the Dobson's of Colorado? Welcome to the VF community.

No . . . . . Doctor Dobson's from Muskogee. I'm from Illinois.

Absolutely true. Perhaps it helps that it's not populated by middle-schoolers. I was a regular on a board called niketalk, which became exceedingly unbearable as the number of insecure middle and high-school aged young people acting like they know everything about everything. This board is really ...

All of the Harbys were "couponed." The Magnuses were intact with the exception of #5. It was an amazing deal and a surprising one. Like I said, it's wonderful to be here.

Here's hoping the new hardback allows the boys at VEI to buy all three trademarks (or at least Solar and Magnus).

My VALIANT story is probably actually quite standard, I'd imagine. I started collecting comics in 1984 (when I was 7) with the 2nd issue of Who's Who and have been collecting ever since. On a trip to Colorado in 1992, I was fortunate enough to pick up copies of Shadowman #1 and Solar #10 for cover ...