Valiant Universe: Harbinger, Unity, Rai, A&A; current state & future prospects

[ksbord]

Besides that, there's no way that aren't going to be forced into Harbinger Wars 2 in some way or fashion.

Possibly sooner than that... pretty sure I saw Dinesh mention they get involved in the next Harbinger arc.

*edit* -- and apparently it will be the next time we see them, as word coming out of a FVL chat today is that Gen Zero is ending after the second arc. Bummer.

[scribbleMind]

That suuuuuuuuucks. Valiant, What are you DOING!? Even if it didn't sell well, which idk I didn't look at the numbers, you can't get rid of everything that feels different!

[Captain Craig]

*edit* -- and apparently it will be the next time we see them, as word coming out of a FVL chat today is that Gen Zero is ending after the second arc. Bummer.

What??!! Gen Zero is pulling an Eternal Warrior and ending at issue #8---well crap, crap, crappity, crap, crap!!
I'm just really getting into it now.

[TheFerg714]

Possibly sooner than that... pretty sure I saw Dinesh mention they get involved in the next Harbinger arc.

*edit* -- and apparently it will be the next time we see them, as word coming out of a FVL chat today is that Gen Zero is ending after the second arc. Bummer.

I wish they would've let it go at least 12 issues. You can't build a story with a 4-issue intro and a 4-issue outro. It wasn't even given a chance.

That said... can't say I give a s***. This will leave some space for other, hopefully better, books.

[scribbleMind]

It feels to me like Post-Ivar, they really aren't giving their ongoings a chance anymore. I'm going to be honest, right now, the only announcement that would really excite me is Shadowman and more 4001 stuff, unless out of the blue Dr. Mirage gets a full ongoing, cause so many of their other books has either already been cancelled recently or is about to be.

[TheFerg714]

It feels to me like Post-Ivar, they really aren't giving their ongoings a chance anymore. I'm going to be honest, right now, the only announcement that would really excite me is Shadowman and more 4001 stuff, unless out of the blue Dr. Mirage gets a full ongoing, cause so many of their other books has either already been cancelled recently or is about to be.

Bloodshot Reborn and Ninjak lasted quite a while... Ninjak's getting at least 25 issues, and Bloodshot, including USA, has at least 23 issues (although I could definitely go for more). I'd say that's perfectly acceptable nowadays. Once those get canceled, we're still going to have Faith, Harbinger: Renegade (hopefully), X-O, Shadowman, Rai, and probably a few more newcomers. Valiant's pretty clearly moving toward having a balance of ongoings and mini's, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
With all that being said, I think at least half of Valiant's monthly output needs to be ongoing... preferably more. You can't build a universe without a strong base to feel like time is actively moving forward.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that Divinity (as well as Dr. Mirage... sort of; and potentially Brittania and Savage *crosses fingers*) is basically an ongoing with breaks inbetween, like Rai. When everything is said and done in March, Divinity will have (including one-shots) 16 issues total.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...inverse-950102

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/11/...-wonder-woman/

Found this while looking for another Valiant news article, thought it was interesting.

[TheFerg714]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...inverse-950102

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/11/...-wonder-woman/

Found this while looking for another Valiant news article, thought it was interesting.

People seriously need to cool it on the "Valiant's Wonder Woman!" crap. It's like the most literal definition of 'jumping the gun' that I've ever seen.

[TheFerg714]

HUGE X-O MANOWAR 2017 NEWS!!!!!

It will be a series of 3-issue story arcs, all written by Matt Kindt.
Part 1: Soldier, with art by Tomas Giorello
Part 2: General, with art by Doug Braithwaite
Part 3: Emperor, with art by Clayton Crain
Interlude: (1 issue), with art by Ryan Bodenheim
And finally, Visigoth, with art by Mico Suayan, starting in 2018.

I swear I'm not making this up. It was just announced on Valiant Central's podcast today.
http://all-comic.com/2016/valiant-ce...01-war-coming/

[ksbord]

Ferg, my friend, we need to work on your message board-fu! This was announced on Monday, and we were talking about it one page back and in a separate thread!

But yes, sounds pretty awesome, doesn't ?

[Cmbmool]

I am not familiar with the character, but why couldn't Valiant place a new person in the X-O Manowar Armor ?

I mean why couldn't they try to add diversity into the series and place a new person into the armor ?

I mean if it's alien armor, then couldn't it be passed down from person to person, via Marvel's Venom ?

Also the current man in the armor is VERY, VERY OLD, and sooner or later he's bound to die. So Why not replace him now in a time when diversity is needed in comics ?

[ksbord]

I am not familiar with the character, but why couldn't Valiant place a new person in the X-O Manowar Armor ?

I mean why couldn't they try to add diversity into the series and place a new person into the armor ?

I mean if it's alien armor, then couldn't it be passed down from person to person, via Marvel's Venom ?

Also the current man in the armor is VERY, VERY OLD, and sooner or later he's bound to die. So Why not replace him now in a time when diversity is needed in comics ?

Aric, at this point, is not an old man... probably more in his late 20s/early 30s. And most of what you are talking about has already been seen in Book of Death: The Fall of X-O Manowar, which details Aric's fate and what happens to the armor. Tyrying to be spoiler-free, because hopefully you'll give the previous series a read as well as this one!

[scribbleMind]

I am not familiar with the character, but why couldn't Valiant place a new person in the X-O Manowar Armor ?

I mean why couldn't they try to add diversity into the series and place a new person into the armor ?

I mean if it's alien armor, then couldn't it be passed down from person to person, via Marvel's Venom ?

Also the current man in the armor is VERY, VERY OLD, and sooner or later he's bound to die. So Why not replace him now in a time when diversity is needed in comics ?

Goodness. I read Valiant to get away from the crap Marvel is doing. There's an Iron Man book with your name on it. Read that.

[Captain Craig]

I am not familiar with the character, but why couldn't Valiant place a new person in the X-O Manowar Armor ?

I mean why couldn't they try to add diversity into the series and place a new person into the armor ?

I mean if it's alien armor, then couldn't it be passed down from person to person, via Marvel's Venom ?

Also the current man in the armor is VERY, VERY OLD, and sooner or later he's bound to die. So Why not replace him now in a time when diversity is needed in comics ?

Well, that is obvious.
Few people are worthy to wear the armor, it's killed or immobilized nearly everyone else who has attempted to bond with it.

Go read Marvel, thanks for playing.

[Aomalle27]

Goodness. I read Valiant to get away from the crap Marvel is doing. There's an Iron Man book with your name on it. Read that.

Jeez; they're merely asking a question; why so snarky? To the OP; the armor was actually donned by Livewire, in the first arc of Unity. She gave the armor back. While it's true the armor has killed many people before Aric; all of them were Vine (that we know of, not much backstory on Shanhara other than the XO zero issue). I will say this; there's plenty of diversity in VEI already, no real need to ditch Aric.