How my recent Valiant experience compares with Marvel
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How my recent Valiant experience compares with Marvel
I'm sure many here are long time Valiant fans but only recently joined your numbers and I wanted to share my journey and what I think of the other publishers right now. Just recently I started to see some Marvel titles drop off my pull list because either the series had ended (She-Hulk, Amazing X-Men, Ultimate Spider-Man) or I didn’t find the series that interesting anymore (Ant-Man, Uncanny X-Men, All-New X-Men).
Marvel has decided to shake things up with an event called Secret Wars which will see the end to of the 616 and Ultimate universes. Usually these events require the reading of multiple different tie-in books along with the main event book itself. As usual I’ve decided to sit this one out but I’m starting to realise this event is going to be bigger than your average Marvel event. Instead, I’ve taken a bolder approach. I’m down to just 3 Marvel titles on my pull list: Hulk, Ms Marvel and, my favourite, Daredevil. I think Hulk may be done for now anyway because of Secret Wars. That leaves me with just 2. Instead of adding more Marvel I’ve decided to branch out a bit and look at other publishers. I’m not a DC fan and they seem to be having some huge event going on right now, too. I like Image and read Saga in trade paperback. If you’re over 18, read comics and you’re not reading Saga then you need to rectify that now! I was subscribed to the amazing Alex and Ada from Image but I’m sad to say that series is coming to an end with the next issue. As for other Image titles, I’ve found them to be very hit and miss plus I’m looking for some books that inhabit the same universe.
Valiant appeared on my radar recently with their Divinity mini series. I read up on their background and they have their own very manageable universe with only 7 or so ongoing titles. Better yet they launched the current universe as recently as 2012 so it’s not too daunting to catch up. I started with Archer and Armstrong and loved it! It was everything a comic should be: great stories, fantastic characters, amazing art and damn good fun. The series ended at issue 25 and I’m all caught up. I’m now reading Ivar – Timewalker, Ninjak and Bloodshot Reborn while I catch up on Harbinger and X-O Manowar. The thing I like about Valiant Comics is that it’s a young universe with only a few titles and the odd miniseries. The mini series stories are only 4 or 5 books long and pull in character combos from the other titles. Plus they’ve gone on record as saying when someone dies in a Valiant comic they stay dead. No Lazarus Pit or crazy retcon to save them. So now my pull list contains 2 Marvel titles and 3 Valiant titles with more to be added soon I’m sure. I also subscribe to the outstanding Bandette from Monkey Brain Comics. It’s only $0.99 and comes out every few months but it’s still a delight.
Marvel has decided to shake things up with an event called Secret Wars which will see the end to of the 616 and Ultimate universes. Usually these events require the reading of multiple different tie-in books along with the main event book itself. As usual I’ve decided to sit this one out but I’m starting to realise this event is going to be bigger than your average Marvel event. Instead, I’ve taken a bolder approach. I’m down to just 3 Marvel titles on my pull list: Hulk, Ms Marvel and, my favourite, Daredevil. I think Hulk may be done for now anyway because of Secret Wars. That leaves me with just 2. Instead of adding more Marvel I’ve decided to branch out a bit and look at other publishers. I’m not a DC fan and they seem to be having some huge event going on right now, too. I like Image and read Saga in trade paperback. If you’re over 18, read comics and you’re not reading Saga then you need to rectify that now! I was subscribed to the amazing Alex and Ada from Image but I’m sad to say that series is coming to an end with the next issue. As for other Image titles, I’ve found them to be very hit and miss plus I’m looking for some books that inhabit the same universe.
Valiant appeared on my radar recently with their Divinity mini series. I read up on their background and they have their own very manageable universe with only 7 or so ongoing titles. Better yet they launched the current universe as recently as 2012 so it’s not too daunting to catch up. I started with Archer and Armstrong and loved it! It was everything a comic should be: great stories, fantastic characters, amazing art and damn good fun. The series ended at issue 25 and I’m all caught up. I’m now reading Ivar – Timewalker, Ninjak and Bloodshot Reborn while I catch up on Harbinger and X-O Manowar. The thing I like about Valiant Comics is that it’s a young universe with only a few titles and the odd miniseries. The mini series stories are only 4 or 5 books long and pull in character combos from the other titles. Plus they’ve gone on record as saying when someone dies in a Valiant comic they stay dead. No Lazarus Pit or crazy retcon to save them. So now my pull list contains 2 Marvel titles and 3 Valiant titles with more to be added soon I’m sure. I also subscribe to the outstanding Bandette from Monkey Brain Comics. It’s only $0.99 and comes out every few months but it’s still a delight.
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Welcome! Always great to hear about new fans discovering Valiant! I hope you stick around these boards and join in on the conversations. Wide range of personality types here, but for the most part we are a congenial and helpful bunch.
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Re: How my recent Valiant experience compares with Marvel
Welcome to the board!
Many of the points you made are exactly the kind of thing we Valiant fans had HOPED that new people would discover about Valiant.
Without having decades of history to try to catch up (or ignore)... Valiant offers "great stories, fantastic characters, amazing art and damn good fun"

Many of the points you made are exactly the kind of thing we Valiant fans had HOPED that new people would discover about Valiant.
Without having decades of history to try to catch up (or ignore)... Valiant offers "great stories, fantastic characters, amazing art and damn good fun"

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Re: How my recent Valiant experience compares with Marvel
Welcome! I also like that Valiant is more of a "manageable" shared comic universe to follow and collect ratehr than the complicated Marvel and DC multiverses.
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Re: How my recent Valiant experience compares with Marvel
The idea of a clean, non-retconned, refaked, or refudged universe in funnybooks does have it's own certain appeal. Once you get people to stop being babies about nostalgia (I HAVE to get every Spider-man comic because it was my favorite when I was 5! WAHHH!) and get them to start caring about good storytelling and art; well that's the first step into the wonderful world of Valiant. Or maybe you just want to see Bloodshot blow up *SQUEE* good! Whatever floats your goat!
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Welcome to the boards. It's fun here as long as you steer clear of the Canadians like MarkRoseHFX and grendeljd.
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Welcome to the VALIANT universe and welcome to the board usuallymatt.
Make sure to stay and post regularly.

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Welcome to the board, and to the Valiant Universe! I love hearing new readers saying its not too daunting to dive into Valiant. So true!!
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Okay, no - sorry, I was just joking. And I'm sorry if I made you upset by that statement at all, dunlow.
I'm offended by that.lorddunlow wrote:Welcome to the boards. It's fun here as long as you steer clear of the Canadians like MarkRoseHFX and grendeljd.
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Okay, no - sorry, I was just joking. And I'm sorry if I made you upset by that statement at all, dunlow.
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Hah. I live in Canada!
I'm originally from the UK, though.
I'm originally from the UK, though.
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Nooooooooooo!usuallymatt wrote:Hah. I live in Canada!
I'm originally from the UK, though.
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usuallymatt wrote:Hah. I live in Canada!
I'm originally from the UK, though.

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maybe he just got lost on his way to the USA.lorddunlow wrote:Nooooooooooo!usuallymatt wrote:Hah. I live in Canada!
I'm originally from the UK, though.

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Welcome. Yes, it's great to have a new universe that is young enough to be completely purchased and read.
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