Armorclads #5 (2022)

[Dallow Spicer1]

So this mini series concludes,…pretty meh stuff. Couldn’t remember a single character name if I had a gun pointed at my head. Long messy battle scene where unmemorable characters fight with other unmemorable characters. Long story short, the main character and the Armorclads or Ironclads (?) escape with the mysterious canon type weapon thing and use it to stop being squashed by a collapsing spaceship

Anyway, the guy who knows what this mysterious weapon is dies in the battle so it’s left as a mystery except that the group know it’s important for some reason. However, (thankfully) there is a plot twist in the epilogue… Tama the Geomancer is somehow seeing these other worldly events and vows to answer the call for a planet in need. So somehow there’s a link to the current Valiant which justifies the last 5 mediocre issues.

As a stand along mini this is dull stuff. IF in the future this story is used as a basis for some kick arse ongoing we might look back on this and view it with a different perspective…but for now it’s a ‘meh’.

3/5 - only bought because it was Valiant

[SwiftMann]

The "decent movie sequence" of last issue turns into Matrix Revolutions when the machines invade Zion. For several pages. And then everything just ends with no real resolution or reasoning for this series to exist. They throw in an "after credits" type of sequence to tease a larger Valiant tie-in, but it's too little too late.