RANK THE VALIANT TITLES

[MoonChild]

Yea, I enjoyed BloodShot all the way thru, minus a couple of duds.
I still havent read alot of post unity, waiting to bind em, lookin forward to reading shadowman all the way thru.

[BloodOfHeroes]

Yea, I enjoyed BloodShot all the way thru, minus a couple of duds.

I beg your pardon?!?!?

[BloodOfHeroes]

Shadowman was another book that maintained its quality for the entire run, IMO.

[dave]

Shadowman was another book that maintained its quality for the entire run, IMO.

In the back of my mind I knew I was missing another title...

[sanman]

It depends on what you are look for. I’d agree that pre-Unity is the best and that’s what I’d collect first. If you are looking for runs I recommend starting with the titles that, again, started before Unity, especially Harbinger as it sets the tone for much of what Valiant was.

If you want to do things on the cheap or just want a cohesive sample try tracking down the early trades: Solar, Harbinger, X-O, Shadowman, and Rai.

I don’t know the seller but here’s a good looking lot of six trades for under $25 shipped:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Valiant-9-Trade-Pap ... 45f17a6177

[Daniel Jackson]

It depends on what you are look for. I’d agree that pre-Unity is the best and that’s what I’d collect first. If you are looking for runs I recommend starting with the titles that, again, started before Unity, especially Harbinger as it sets the tone for much of what Valiant was.

If you want to do things on the cheap or just want a cohesive sample try tracking down the early trades: Solar, Harbinger, X-O, Shadowman, and Rai.

I don’t know the seller but here’s a good looking lot of six trades for under $25 shipped:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Valiant-9-Trade-Pap ... 45f17a6177

Nice lot of trades. It even has the Unity slipcase still sealed. Whoever still needs one should hit the BIN on that.

[JonesyAZ]

My Top 5 personal favorite Valiant titles (as a complete run)

Archer & Armstrong
Ninjak
H.A.R.D. Corps
Magnus: Robot Fighter
Harbinger

These top 5 are in no particular order; they just seem to be the books that have stuck with me so far. I haven't sat down to read much of the Shadowman run yet, but I have a feeling i'm gonna love that one

[MoonChild]

It depends on what you are look for. I’d agree that pre-Unity is the best and that’s what I’d collect first. If you are looking for runs I recommend starting with the titles that, again, started before Unity, especially Harbinger as it sets the tone for much of what Valiant was.

If you want to do things on the cheap or just want a cohesive sample try tracking down the early trades: Solar, Harbinger, X-O, Shadowman, and Rai.

I don’t know the seller but here’s a good looking lot of six trades for under $25 shipped:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Valiant-9-Trade-Pap ... 45f17a6177

Nice lot of trades. It even has the Unity slipcase still sealed. Whoever still needs one should hit the BIN on that.

I second that, what's the catch!

[MoonChild]

Yea, I enjoyed BloodShot all the way thru, minus a couple of duds.

I beg your pardon?!?!?

[myron]

My Top 5 personal favorite Valiant titles (as a complete run)

Archer & Armstrong
Ninjak
H.A.R.D. Corps
Magnus: Robot Fighter
Harbinger

These top 5 are in no particular order; they just seem to be the books that have stuck with me so far. I haven't sat down to read much of the Shadowman run yet, but I have a feeling i'm gonna love that one

have you actually read H.A.R.D. Corps all the way through??? It falls to pieces harder than Magnus at the end....even though Magnus was a further fall...

[dave]

My Top 5 personal favorite Valiant titles (as a complete run)

Archer & Armstrong
Ninjak
H.A.R.D. Corps
Magnus: Robot Fighter
Harbinger

These top 5 are in no particular order; they just seem to be the books that have stuck with me so far. I haven't sat down to read much of the Shadowman run yet, but I have a feeling i'm gonna love that one

have you actually read H.A.R.D. Corps all the way through??? It falls to pieces harder than Magnus at the end....even though Magnus was a further fall...

Yeah, and he left off Harbinger...

[Phoenix8008]

Well, with the caveat that the earlier issues are much better than the later issues in almost all cases, I'd rank my top titles thusly:

Unity as a story unto itself
X-O Manowar
Bloodshot
Eternal Warrior
Magnus / Rai & the Future Force (I couldn't get Rai 1-8 till the last year or two)
H.A.R.D. Corps
Psi-Lords

In defense of the above, these are most of the titles that I collected when the comics were in print and I therefore have more nostalgic memories of these titles. Since then I've experienced and loved Harbinger, Solar, and others that I missed from the beginning because the prices were too high to get into them back then. And if I couldn't get the start of a series, then I didn't like picking up in the middle of the story.

Overall, there's a lot of great stories in Valiant along with a few duds, but almost everything has some redeeming qualities. (Like Psi-Lords which a majority of people here seem to dislike. I was always fascinated by the combination of HARD Corps technology with nanites like Bloodshot had. I liked the sci-fi spaciness of the title and wished there could have been more to it, but at least they kept appearing in Magnus after their title finished.)

[Elveen]

Obv. pre-unity is the tops of the pops and Unity.

For me there are a few post unity runs that are also stellar.

A&A 1-12
Shadowman until he leaves N.O. (around #17-19)
EW1-8


I enjoyed just about Bloodshot book I've read (minus the alligator fighting).
Shadowman was almost all good, a few issues with him traveling back in time are only so-so.
EW was good.

Really. You should read them all.

[myron]

<snip>
Really. You should read them all.

and that's all there is to it...

[dave]

<snip>
Really. You should read them all.

and that's all there is to it...

Ditto.

You'll never be "cured" til you do!

[superman-prime]

Hard corps and psi lords are kidna the same book just with a 2000 year gap

[sanman]

Hard corps and psi lords are kidna the same book just with a 2000 year gap

Hadn’t thought about it that way before, but I bought my Psi Lords run just a couple months back from a quarter bin.

[slym2none]

I thought some of the titles later on were really rank.



-slym

[sanman]

Yep, hence my Valiant collection just sorta stops at a certain point.

[slym2none]

Right after Unity? That's where (most of) mine stops.





-slym

[yardstick]

I would say just don't mess around. Greg has a real useful tool for VALIANT readers on the site. A complete checklist. Download, print, check off as you collect and enjoy reading all of it

That would have been funnier if it had been Greg posting it. Still funny tho.

[sanman]

Right after Unity? That's where (most of) mine stops.





-slym

No the serial number contest—I had to own the Valiant Universe.

It ended after Unity because of Katrina, but my LCS unloaded a ton of decent condition commons on the cheap. I haven’t read most of them since the ‘90s though.

[slym2none]

Oh yeah, sorry 'bout that... I forgot Katrina hit you pretty hard.





-slym

[sanman]

Oh yeah, sorry 'bout that... I forgot Katrina hit you pretty hard.





-slym

No worries

[xodacia81]

Hard corps and psi lords are kidna the same book just with a 2000 year gap

Hadn’t thought about it that way before, but I bought my Psi Lords run just a couple months back from a quarter bin.

You were overcharged.