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Give me the pre-Unity house style over most of that stuff any day of the week. I also think there's more art diversity in pre-Unity than we give credit to. Just look at Unity. BWS to Lapham/Mayo to Ernie Colon to John Dixon. All very different drawing and inking styles. Yet due to the stricter ...

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Tough, if they go forward they can lose a lot and if they pause they can lose ...

I do wish there was a market for stories like this.

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Finally got around to watching it. Great stuff. A long career and you covered it all with good questions.

Of course, most of all, JayJay was great.

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Watched it again thanks to this thread. It really deserved a much better fate.

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syzhang28 wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:15 am dude, what is happening to harbinger? who are even those characters on that cover? legit question.

I also reacted to that. Some of these characters can not live the normal teenage life that was part of the old Harbinger stories.

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Sad to hear this.

RIP

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Cyberstrike wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:17 am It's actually name of the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire the first man who unified a good chunk Central and Eastern Europe.

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Ryan wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:10 am Nice. Doesn't Magnus mean Great or 'the Great one'? I had a Great-grandpa named Magnus. Danish

Exactly. Like Charles the Great. Cool that you have it in your family.

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Ryan said that, not me, heh.

Oops, fixed.

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How do you really think Bloodshot would have done had it not been for the pandemic?


Impossible to say. Depends on whether it would have reached a critical mass of an audience.

The people I saw it with all liked it and would have recommended it, but I had the feeling they were happy to have ...

Ryan wrote: Charlemagne is like a modern day Magnus

Charlemagne in Latin is Carolus Magnus, though Shooter has said that the similarity between the names is just a coincidence.

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ManofTheAtom wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:47 pm What made one different from the other?

Whatever to call it - Defiant was more fantastic with worlds just beyond the perception of normal humans.

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And it was short lived, no?


Solar took it back.

Which is why he sought out Darque, who did to Bender with necromantic energy what Phil did with nuclear energy.

In both instances, it was Bender being affected by outside factors that changed him.

In essence, Solar's ability to manipulate and ...

ManofTheAtom wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:33 am One could argue that since Phil was made entirely of energy what Bender stole was part of Solar himself, which then bonded with Bender. It was Solar's own power finding a new host, as it were.

True

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ManofTheAtom wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:56 am I forget how Bender got his powers. I've only read those issues once or twice, heh.

He tricked Solar into letting part of his energy be stolen. The point being that he didn't need to be a Harbinger to manipulate energy.

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Ryan wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:04 am To me the debate is, where do the various iterations of Valiant fall on the spectrum of 'realism'?

Good question. I also think that "how consistantly are things explained by in-universe logic?" is a relevant question. For both questions I believe that early VH1 manages best.

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What if Phil had the Harbinger ability to manipulate nuclear energy?

What if Jack Boniface and Master Darque had the Harbinger ability to manipulate necromantic energy?


I would find it boring if Harbinger abilities explain all powers. Let there be some variation. How about Fred Bender? Wasn't ...

nycjadie wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 4:57 pm I’m clearing some duplicates and other things. Please check them out! I’ll be adding a bit more this week.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/hickorycanyon

Nice slabs. Good luck with the sales.

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Chiclo wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:47 am edit: found the pic.

That's a notable portion of the print run.

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More info and some pics in this thread:
http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16143

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1st Among Equals wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:04 am My odds of finding one just got 1% worse.

Wonder how many actually are on the open market? This thread says Chiclo, Brian and Southern have one each. I also have one somewhere. And one listed for sale at a crazy price.

How many more are tied up in collections of board members?

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midnightonearth wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 8:47 pm we are launching a Kickstarter to get these books finally published.

Backed.

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lorddunlow wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2024 10:40 am Thanks to my awesome wife, I guess I may have an annual update to this thread.

Cool, congrats on the book and the wife.

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Dallow Spicer1 wrote: Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:35 pm …enjoy it whatever you do and whoever you’re with!

Thank you and likewise.

God jul och gott nytt år!

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