2011: Re-reading Valiant!

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:56 am

Falling behind? By the end of March, you should have very roughly 500 done.

I rocked through alot of issues by reading TWD. That went really fast because I love it. Now, I've kind of hit a wall again. I'm still just shooting for 1000.

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:51 pm

Yeah, falling a bit behind, I'm even more behind on blogging about them than I am reading them though. I probably just need to cut what I'm writing down even further.

dave · Post by **dave** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:29 am

Coffee and No-Doze brutha!

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:01 pm

I know, I need to just Red Bull through or something! I've been putting in a lot of time at the paper, and then putting in time at the store when I finally get home, so I'm just never getting caught up.

I'm sure it'll happen someday - it can't be this busy all the time.

It's time for me to read Unity, though.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:01 am

sbcomics wrote:I know, I need to just Red Bull through or something! I've been putting in a lot of time at the paper, and then putting in time at the store when I finally get home, so I'm just never getting caught up.

I'm sure it'll happen someday - it can't be this busy all the time.

It's time for me to read Unity, though.

Get ready to read the same 5 pages about 15 times.

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:00 pm

That's what I'm afraid of!

I read "Batman and the Outsiders" and "Essential Captain America" vol 6 on the trip - no Valiants, but at least I've gotten a lot closer to being back on pace.

dave · Post by **dave** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:10 pm

I finally read three more issues of Hard CORPs. The Chaos effect issue and the next two.

The Chaos Effect issue was terrible. Clunky writing, no introductions into what on earth (haha) was going on...and then I found it very hard to believe that one second the Effect was all over the Earth and the next, it was all but gone.

VALIANT had always been known as a different kind of company. The fact that Sirot wanted to kill Sam was really a great idea. They should have. That would have made the story far more compelling.

The fact that one Armorine "softened up" an alien ship so that X-O could take it out proves the writer had no clue regarding the power of the Man-o-War suit, and you guys know, I am in no way one of those uber geeks that nitpicks minutiae. I am an Ubergeek that doesn't, okay? lol

X-O did not need Harada's mind powers to help him blow up Spider Alien ships.

The next two issues were better. The one had the boxer introduced. It was okay, but it didn't get us anywhere. Introduce a new character, and then get rid of him at the end. So who cares? And Heydrich wouldn't have even known about the gambler. If he didn't he would never say anything about it. At the end of the book, I was just wondering what the point was.

The next issue was pretty good. That disgruntled teen was in it. Eric Semple or some such name. Earl Simpkus? Help me out.

The art was kinda goofy, but not awful. It seemed decidedly un-VALIANT, which was okay. There were several odd ball humorous points, like Heydrich worrying about "the bean counters" reaction to his destroying a rug. Odd.

Anyway, no where near as bad as I'd feared, but just kinda out there. The helmet that Heydrich threw on reminds me of Nuro's helmet in the new Dr Solar.

That is all. (finally, you say!)

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:32 pm

I'm thinking about giving up on "in order" after I get done with Unity and just reading the runs that interest me. Thoughts?

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:47 pm

sbcomics wrote:I'm thinking about giving up on "in order" after I get done with Unity and just reading the runs that interest me. Thoughts?

I agree. I started trying to read everything in approximately release order. This really sucked when I'd read a good book and have to read a bunch of crap to get back to that good book.

I'm enjoying it more reading in runs. If I find one I'm liking, I keep going. If one kind of sucks, I read it, but kind of skim it.

Definitely read in runs.

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:35 pm

Sounds good - I'm going with your plan. I think I have a better shot of reading more of them if I go that route!

dave · Post by **dave** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:47 am

If you're going to read through titles a way to go even faster might be to borrow ianalexavier's bound books. No opening and closing bags, I was able to breeze through Turok and Psi-Lords...

Shoot him a pm if you're interested.

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:29 pm

I skipped ahead and read the first year of Bloodshot:

http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2011/04/ ... k-reviews/

I liked it! Some of that may have been nostalgia, but it's got espionage elements, which I like, plus some of the bits I liked about Wolverine and the Punisher. I wouldn't call it earth-shaking or anything, but it was fun to break the reading-in-order gauntlet and just knock out 12 issues of the same character.

dave · Post by **dave** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:52 pm

I liked Bloodshot when it was coming out and purchased, then read every issue up to Chaos Effect. It was my first Valiant title, so I didn't "know what I was missing" so to speak with pre-Unity or anything. They were fun.

I loved the fact that you could recognize the weapons that were depicted.

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:55 pm

Finally got some Solar recaps written, though there's a lot more depth to these issues than what I got into.

http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2011/06/ ... 1991-1992/

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:43 pm

The good news: I'm on pace to actually finish 2,011 comics in 2011

The bad news: I've done not nearly as well reading Valiants as I wanted to.
Part of it was not being able to find issues to finish out runs, so I didn't start on some... not sure what my other excuses were exactly.

I've actually read some Shadowman and Archer & Armstrong that I have yet to blog about, but overall I just didn't get as many Valiants read so far as I hoped to.

I've read 1,535 comics this year (or those are the ones I've read and blogged about so far), but only 47 were Valiants.

- Matt

sbcomics · Post by **sbcomics** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:52 am

Finally some more Valiants on the blog, as I write up my take on the first 15 issues of Archer and Armstrong:

http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2011/12/ ... -in-1990s/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

myron · Post by **myron** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:56 am

sbcomics wrote:Finally some more Valiants on the blog, as I write up my take on the first 15 issues of Archer and Armstrong:

http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2011/12/ ... -in-1990s/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

the first year of A&A is all BWS goodness...

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