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Giant garden salad = main course; banana ice cream = dessert.

Then watched "Distorted", a stupefyingly bland movie on Hulu which may have been a failed attempt to make a handful of Philip K. Dick-era SF concepts palatable to the Lifetime channel's audience. Also, distractingly, it was shot in ...

If you could own only one deluxe, special-edition reissue of a vinyl LP, The White Album would likely be your best choice. It's a high water mark for 20th century popular music. I'm not sure what other albums have its combination of top-level composition and execution, widespread public acclaim and ...

Here're some old vinyl LP favorites...

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...with great covers ...

4001 AD Shadowman was worse. Close call, but worse.

Does anybody know why there’s been a hike in the asking and selling prices for Lucio Parrillo regular and variant covers this summer? Some of his Red/Queen Sonjas from 7-10 years ago have suddenly become quite overpriced, in my opinion. Maybe the new Marvel Conan titles steered new people toward his ...

Sometimes I think about selling off parts of my complete, regular issue 91-16 run. Then I see stuff like Valiant 101, and I know the run is going nowhere. Great job as always, Greg.

A guess: DMG USA hasn’t been trying to make money via Valiant, they’ve been trying to lose money. A structured loss to offset taxable profits somewhere else.

I'd say that from both a reader's perspective and a historic perspective, the most important set of Valiant issues is the entire original Unity series. It's the best superhero crossover arc I've read (regardless of publisher), because, essentially, it's a SF novel fanned out across several comic ...

Looks like an Acclaim-era relaunch to me, but blander than V2. Pass.

Summydad1 wrote:Rai and Divinity all the way!

+1. Close call between Divinity and 4001 for me, though. That series aged well, because it seems more substantial now than it did when it came out.

AnarchoMambo wrote:Yep, I will definitely try to get one!

Me too. I like glass art, and I like Braithwaite’s work. What’s not to like, besides maybe the price?

I wonder if a forced ownership change for DMG could eventually open a way for Dinesh & Co. to buy back Valiant.

markie7235 wrote: if you think DMG really does intend to market Valiant high and then sell for a nice profit (my personal belief)

+1. Sell or begin wind-down by 6/30/19 is my guess...only a guess, but emerging fact pattern looks familiar.

I gotta stick up for Q&W! It's been a long time since I read Asmus's run, but I loved a lot of his first year's issues. His stuff was so baldly absurd, satiric and (more than) occasionally stupid, it made a nice alternative to the other monthlies I was reading at the time. The Montana arc really ...

Well, damn! There’s all kinds of positive stuff on this board tonight.

TheFerg714 wrote:I had NO idea he wrote #24. That issue was GOOD!

This seems like fine news to me.

+1, & the Archie Comics credentials don’t hurt, either.

So glad to read this. Diesel is the best star match for the character, especially considering the others mentioned. Hope all goes as planned.

Holy cow. After being away from this site for awhile, I've just spent the last hour reading about the DMG buyout and their ejection of Mr. Shamdasani from the company he built. I'm compelled to leave a note about an encounter I had with Mr. S at NYCC a few years ago. Late on a Sunday afternoon, I ...

I'd say 4001's Rai X or Gilad.

Try reading "Conan the Barbarian" 100, from 1979, to test out whether you're interested in reading a Marvel-era run. A zillion copies were printed, so it's still a cheap, easy find. If you like the Roy Thomas and John Buscema combo, grab more of their stories: they're the standard-setters, and any ...

Love that Avengers 57 cover, and this old Starlin fan is certainly envious of the IM 55. Well collected, sir!

Thanks for the post! Testing it out, I like the app not only for its Valiant info, which is really helpful, but for the Daredevil news I've gotten from it. I have many DD keys, but the app quickly zeroes me in on some that I don't.

This run and the Perez/Byrne era of Avengers got me hooked on buying monthly comics when I was in grade- and middle-school. I bought 111 off a rotating rack at a convenience store and began a subscribing a short time later. I remember a bunch of these arriving at the house (often rolled up and ...

! EW in Valiant Vision 3D ?

The Archer & Armstrong gold has landed, and it looks great! Thanks again for the contest and the great service.