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by ManofTheAtom
Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:35 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Valiant Serial Number Contest
Replies: 50
Views: 5869

Re: Valiant Serial Number Contest

Phantom wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 4:15 am Does anyone still check these - I do.
Always hoped for a winner - and get cgc.
Would be so magical to own.

I always check, even any unbagged issues in back issue £1 bins
Never have, but sometimes a while ago considered doing it.
by ManofTheAtom
Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:38 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence



Potentially, the most interesting thing in a hypothetical meeting between VH-1 Faith and VEI Faith would be the latter's relationship with VEI Archer, where, in contrast, VH-1 Archer married VH-1 Flamingo.


I have zero interest in the old Valiant being brought into modern day. Bring back the ...
by ManofTheAtom
Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:14 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence

Potentially, the most interesting thing in a hypothetical meeting between VH-1 Faith and VEI Faith would be the latter's relationship with VEI Archer, where, in contrast, VH-1 Archer married VH-1 Flamingo.
by ManofTheAtom
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:50 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: X-0 Manowar/Iron Man
Replies: 3
Views: 68

Re: X-0 Manowar/Iron Man


Although I'm a big of X-0 Manowar, I would pick Iron Man as the better fighter.


Aric is a Visigoth while Tony is a businessman. How is the latter a better fighter than the former?

Take their armors away, and Aric can still do this to Tony...

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/mcn7XW5TAE_9 ...
by ManofTheAtom
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:49 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence





Unfortunately the multiverse is here to stay. All we can hope for is that someday they re-interpret it in a way that fits VALIANT canon, then undo it.


That's the thing about fiction being all made-up though, it can just as easily be un-made-up. Or just like 'Beyond' is ignoring all ...
by ManofTheAtom
Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:57 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: X-0 Manowar/Iron Man
Replies: 3
Views: 68

Re: X-0 Manowar/Iron Man

When Crescendo and the Vizier captured Aric, they subjected him to a VR simulation in which he was a prisoner of the Roman empire in 410 AD.

Eventually, his memories of his experiences in the 20th Century woke up and he escaped.

Later, in X-O Manowar #68, the Vizier (Mallik) convinces Aric that ...
by ManofTheAtom
Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:59 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: X-0 Manowar/Iron Man
Replies: 3
Views: 68

X-0 Manowar/Iron Man

Throughout the early years of the VALIANT Universe -- particularly in Harbinger -- it was firmly established that both the DC and Marvel Universes are entirely fictional, no differently than Star Trek, Star Wars, or Flaming Carrot.

Solar then introduced the concept of virtual reality that felt so ...
by ManofTheAtom
Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:18 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence

Narratively, the most viable version of a VH-1 revival would be one that begins in 1996 and continues on from there.

Sort of like how the Newsroom and The Morning Show were and are a few years behind the present. Or like Stranger Things, which is set 40 years ago.
by ManofTheAtom
Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:08 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence



Unfortunately the multiverse is here to stay. All we can hope for is that someday they re-interpret it in a way that fits VALIANT canon, then undo it.


That's the thing about fiction being all made-up though, it can just as easily be un-made-up. Or just like 'Beyond' is ignoring all previous ...
by ManofTheAtom
Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:05 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Pre-Unity/Unity Reprints?
Replies: 2
Views: 51

Re: Pre-Unity/Unity Reprints?

It would be awesome.
by ManofTheAtom
Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:51 pm
Forum: Defiant and Broadway
Topic: Unpublished Broadway Scripts/Issues
Replies: 5
Views: 56

Re: Unpublished Broadway Scripts/Issues


So stumbled on this. Looks like this collector has posted up some pages for Fatal #0,7 as well as a comic called Makeshift? First I have heard of that, but it is marked as being under Broadway as well.

https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=87793

https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic ...
by ManofTheAtom
Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:05 pm
Forum: Defiant and Broadway
Topic: Unpublished Broadway Scripts/Issues
Replies: 5
Views: 56

Re: Unpublished Broadway Scripts/Issues

Back in the day I downloaded the art pages for Fatale #0 and script from Broadway's site and gave them to Defiant1, who uploaded them to his site.

I posted the links I could find to them here several months ago when the conversation came up.

Special thanks to Michael Sacal a.k.a Man of the Atom ...
by ManofTheAtom
Thu Jun 12, 2025 10:54 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence



One interesting aspect of a meeting between the three Faiths (VH-1, VH-2, and VH-3) would be that the first one would be the eldest of the group, having been born in the '70s (the second one would be only slightly younger, having been born in 1981), and also have had more experience as a member ...
by ManofTheAtom
Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:59 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence



At the end of Resurgence, the VEI iterations of the VALIANT characters became lost in the multiverse.

Most are in the Underdeadside, some are still in the VEI reality, and Aram and Faith appear to be lost in the bridge between them.

What if Faith and Aram end up finding their way to the VH-1 ...
by ManofTheAtom
Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:09 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Re: Post Resurgence

One interesting aspect of a meeting between the three Faiths (VH-1, VH-2, and VH-3) would be that the first one would be the eldest of the group, having been born in the '70s (the second one would be only slightly younger, having been born in 1981), and also have had more experience as a member of ...
by ManofTheAtom
Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:17 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: Post Resurgence
Replies: 14
Views: 166

Post Resurgence

At the end of Resurgence, the VEI iterations of the VALIANT characters became lost in the multiverse.

Most are in the Underdeadside, some are still in the VEI reality, and Aram and Faith appear to be lost in the bridge between them.

What if Faith and Aram end up finding their way to the VH-1 and ...
by ManofTheAtom
Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:40 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal
Replies: 174
Views: 2367

Re: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal




Not every single VH-1 comic during either Shooter's or Layton's tenures was a winner, and that had nothing to do with them being consistent with what came before.


Which Shooter comic wasn’t a winner?


Early Shadowman; the book improved under Bob Hall and was an episodic 'okay' with ...
by ManofTheAtom
Sat Jun 07, 2025 4:38 pm
Forum: Defiant and Broadway
Topic: Apparently, Schism something?
Replies: 1
Views: 28

Re: Apparently, Schism something?

Yeah, the KS reached its goal.
by ManofTheAtom
Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:20 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: One Step ‘Beyond’: Matias Timarchi talks Valiant’s new heroes, future prospects
Replies: 3
Views: 124

Re: One Step ‘Beyond’: Matias Timarchi talks Valiant’s new heroes, future prospects

leonmallett wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:11 pm
syzhang28 wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 6:27 pm He sounds clueless.
How so? He is trying to outline future plans against a very uncertain backdrop for indy publishers following Diamond's demise, which must be a tricky line to walk.
Indeed.
by ManofTheAtom
Mon Jun 02, 2025 7:20 am
Forum: VALIANT Published Issue Discussions
Topic: Why isn't Valiant on this list of this month publishers?
Replies: 2
Views: 62

Re: Why isn't Valiant on this list of this month publishers?


It isn't under Alien Books or Valiant.... is Alien Valiant really so small time it isn't worth mentioning among all those other minor independents.

Or maybe it just isn't shipping anything this month?

https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/new-comics-shipping-this-week-13/?fbclid ...
by ManofTheAtom
Wed May 28, 2025 3:19 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal
Replies: 174
Views: 2367

Re: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal









I haven't seen any indication of the editing being bad. As I've stated before, nothing I've seen shows that what they're doing contradicts what came before when Dinesh was there or after he left. The consistency has remained. I have also said that had he stayed things would very likely ...
by ManofTheAtom
Tue May 27, 2025 10:49 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal
Replies: 174
Views: 2367

Re: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal






You can move on from this focus on disproving the theory at any time. You are separate person; your posts don’t have to always be in reaction to a single theme. You can even juggle two posts in different threads addressing two disparate topics at the same time. Why not call out bad editing ...
by ManofTheAtom
Mon May 26, 2025 7:02 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal
Replies: 174
Views: 2367

Re: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal




You can move on from this focus on disproving the theory at any time. You are separate person; your posts don’t have to always be in reaction to a single theme. You can even juggle two posts in different threads addressing two disparate topics at the same time. Why not call out bad editing now ...
by ManofTheAtom
Mon May 26, 2025 12:04 pm
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal
Replies: 174
Views: 2367

Re: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal


You can move on from this focus on disproving the theory at any time. You are separate person; your posts don’t have to always be in reaction to a single theme. You can even juggle two posts in different threads addressing two disparate topics at the same time. Why not call out bad editing now? Is ...
by ManofTheAtom
Mon May 26, 2025 8:02 am
Forum: General VALIANT Discussion
Topic: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal
Replies: 174
Views: 2367

Re: "We Anticipate Being Able to Focus on Expanding": Valiant Publisher Breaks Down New IDW Deal


I don’t think anyone was saying that DMG and Alien were the same business entities. Can you cite sources that posters were claiming that DMG and Alien are organs of the same company?

What was said was that, in hiring many of the same decision makers from DMG, Alien was carrying forth many of the ...