Just re-read the entire X-O run

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:09 pm

Fanboy375 wrote:I could have saved you a ton of time.

Read to / and including Issue #8 and stop!

Nah...... there is plenty of good stuff after that. Heck issue #9-13 are just as good as the Pre-unity stuff. #10 is a classic cover. The splash of Aric in the ground with the armor and the roots..... great stuff.

I even liked Randy with the XO.

Knob · Post by **Knob** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:33 pm

the bloated X-O with roots growing is NASTY looking but cool as hell.

I love the book from 0-30, tough for any 31 issue run to beat that.

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:08 pm

Jorge's stuff was really good.

megatronthe3rd · Post by **megatronthe3rd** » Sat May 17, 2008 7:39 am

I started re-reading X-O 2 weeks ago. I'm up to issue 44 but they really do hold up. I remember being really sad when this book was cancelled.

megatronthe3rd · Post by **megatronthe3rd** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:19 pm

Just got into 50-60. They got pretty bad!

*AricofDacia* · Post by ***AricofDacia*** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:11 pm

Though I started with Solar #1 as my emersion into Valiant (BWS art) back in 1991, Manowar became the ticket (again BWS parts, and a Conan-kind-of-character.) Steve Englehart sold the inital story for me. Art was very good, but became great with Bart Sears (the page in # 14 when he lands in his own pool after Unity, and much to Ken's dismay, is some awesome art. And Aric looks like a god, or at least a Frazetta-like butt kicker. I hated the conclusion of Marz's Birthquake story line, but actually was liking the story and art in issues 42, 44 and 45. The opening splash in the Roman prison was spot on. Marz's story feel of Roman/Visigoth tension nailed it, initially, in the Birthquake run and was better than #0, even if #0 was canon. Crescendo had major potential. Bart's detail more than made up for the faster read, I couldn't help but study each panel. Then the septic system backed up and crap poured forth from the X-O books. I finished this story line, gagging most of the way (actually the art was still awesome.) I basically became a picture looker for the rest of the run and couldn't bring myself to actually understand what was going on in the book 'til its demise.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:32 pm

*AricofDacia* wrote:Though I started with Solar #1 as my emersion into Valiant (BWS art) back in 1991, Manowar became the ticket (again BWS parts, and a Conan-kind-of-character.) Steve Englehart sold the inital story for me. Art was very good, but became great with Bart Sears (the page in # 14 when he lands in his own pool after Unity, and much to Ken's dismay, is some awesome art. And Aric looks like a god, or at least a Frazetta-like butt kicker. I hated the conclusion of Marz's Birthquake story line, but actually was liking the story and art in issues 42, 44 and 45. The opening splash in the Roman prison was spot on. Marz's story feel of Roman/Visigoth tension nailed it, initially, in the Birthquake run and was better than #0, even if #0 was canon. Crescendo had major potential. Bart's detail more than made up for the faster read, I couldn't help but study each panel. Then the septic system backed up and crap poured forth from the X-O books. I finished this story line, gagging most of the way (actually the art was still awesome.) I basically became a picture looker for the rest of the run and couldn't bring myself to actually understand what was going on in the book 'til its demise.

Hola compadre....

Sorry you had to "read" the end books. But the begining is stuff of legends and lore.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:16 am

Welcome abroad!

It's a good thing that you've read the books all the way to the end - even if it was painful. Heck, I stopped at Chaos Effect, myself.

-slym

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:37 am

yea i got to 30 something and skipped to the end but ill get around to checking out that art in the later run.

*AricofDacia* · Post by ***AricofDacia*** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:18 pm

I can't help but feel, especially since I've read much of the Marz/Sears collaboration on The Path from the now defunct Crossgen, that Akklaim is to blame for the decline in X-O, and I agree with you-all that it was painfull, and I feel they (Akklaim) tried to hide their de-evolution of X-O through eye-candy. Yet at the same time I still feel there was max. potential with the first couple books of X-O Birthquake:it's just too bad it was a tasty hook that ended with rat poison. This probably belongs under another heading, but I'm only mentioning it in comparison: I do not feel all the later Valiant books were dead from within. The Gulacy Turoks came across as full-on maucho stories with great art and some great cheese-cake covers. And Rags was pretty awesome, also.

*AricofDacia* · Post by ***AricofDacia*** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:26 pm

Just a quick P.S.
This is a very cool board and I'm glad I was allowed to be part of it.
Valiant rules!

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:17 pm

*AricofDacia* wrote:Just a quick P.S.
This is a very cool board and I'm glad I was allowed to be part of it.
Valiant rules!

Valiant rules!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:32 am

Elveen wrote:
*AricofDacia* wrote:Just a quick P.S.
This is a very cool board and I'm glad I was allowed to be part of it.
Valiant rules!

Valiant rules!

Hivemind!

-slym

*AricofDacia* · Post by ***AricofDacia*** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:01 pm

This is exactly what I mean. (See above).

I need to get me some of those fancy "board"-ing things you-all do, too !

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:47 pm

depluto wrote:Just re-read the entire X-O run.

And I just read all of VALIANT, twice

Stop bragging

tictuck · Post by **tictuck** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:13 am

Would an X-O Harley been better

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:35 pm

tictuck wrote:Would an X-O Harley been better

The XO should NEVER be ridden like that.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:29 pm

ManofTheAtom wrote:
depluto wrote:Just re-read the entire X-O run.
And I just read all of VALIANT, twice Stop bragging

WOW. Really? WOW.

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:15 pm

Elveen wrote:
ManofTheAtom wrote:
depluto wrote:Just re-read the entire X-O run.
And I just read all of VALIANT, twice Stop bragging

WOW. Really? WOW.

Heh, yeah. Some issues more than twice.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:52 pm

ManofTheAtom wrote:
Elveen wrote:
ManofTheAtom wrote:
depluto wrote:Just re-read the entire X-O run.
And I just read all of VALIANT, twice Stop bragging

WOW. Really? WOW.
Heh, yeah. Some issues more than twice.

I have not read everything yet. But I am on an Accliam kick right now, I'll get back to VH1 soon.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:14 pm

Elveen wrote:
ManofTheAtom wrote:
Elveen wrote:
ManofTheAtom wrote:
depluto wrote:Just re-read the entire X-O run.
And I just read all of VALIANT, twice Stop bragging

WOW. Really? WOW.
Heh, yeah. Some issues more than twice.

I have not read everything yet. But I am on an Accliam kick right now, I'll get back to *VALIANT (1991-1996)* soon.

A trip to the dark side, have you had. Soon, the light you will see

(you know how much I like both eras

)

JonesyAZ · Post by **JonesyAZ** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:16 pm

I have not read every issue of X-O thus far, since i am missing a few issues here and there towards the end of the run, but I had a comment and question:

1) Paul Gulacy's art on issue #65: Did it seem horrendous? Also, why did Aric have nicely cut short hair in this issue???

2) Did Master Darque last appear before issue 64 in the Chaos Effect?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:17 pm

JonesyAZ wrote:I have not read every issue of X-O thus far, since i am missing a few issues here and there towards the end of the run, but I had a comment and question:

1) Paul Gulacy's art on issue #65: Did it seem horrendous? Also, why did Aric have nicely cut short hair in this issue???

2) Did Master Darque last appear before issue 64 in the Chaos Effect?

Yes/no idea other than zero editorial control and I believe he appeared briefly in # 63.

dave · Post by **dave** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:31 pm

I never underrstood the companies reasoning in destroying the seed in the first place.

Why not keep it around to create another villain with some chutz-pah?

Why have Shanhara birth it at all? Here it is! It's destroyed. Sike!

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