The superhero tide isn’t ebbing any time soon. Year after year, we see new adaptations of comic book properties arrive on every screen we have access to. From familiar names to relative unknowns, viewers are being bombarded by some new hyper-powered being or other. Valiant entered the game this March with their live-action adaptation of…
Faith: Dreamside #1 Renews My Faith in Valiant
Faith: Dreamside #1 Jordie Bellaire (Colorist), Jody Houser (Writer), MJ Kim (Artist), Dave Sharpe (Letterer) Valiant Press September 2018 This review is based off a review copy and contains spoilers. I was a huge fan of Jody Houser’s original run on Faith. Here’s a picture of me hugging her, dressed as Summer Smith (Faith’s alter…
Valiant Buzz: A little bit of Faith and a whole lot of ICONS
With the end of July inevitably comes the end of San Diego Comic Con talk. But luckily for you, we still have some buzz up our sleeves. At SDCC, Valiant Comics unveiled their blind bag exclusives — three, individually bagged in opaque plastic, editions of their “ICONS” initiative. They include: Bloodshot: Salvation #1, Ninja-K #1, and…
Faith in Representation: Valiant Efforts
Editor’s note: This is the first of what we hope will be several pieces on Valiant Comics’ new(ish) heroine Faith, aka Zephyr, whose solo miniseries will begin in January 2016. Do you have a perspective on Faith, a yearning to cover her series, or an interest in discovering this heroine? Get in touch. But first:…
Valiant Comics Pulls No Punches With Forgotten Queen, Punk Mambo, and Livewire
Ever picked up a comic book with a badass woman on the cover, only to read it and find that a dude was running the whole show? Well, Valiant Comics is here to dispel any notion of that happening with their roster of women-led comic series. And we could not be happier! WWAC got a…
Valiant Efforts PUBWATCH: Everything Valiant from November
It’s Valiant Pubwatch, it’s me, it’s you. We are gathered here today, to get through this month’s releases.
Valiant High is All That and a Bag of Empanadas
Valiant High Derek Charm (Artist), Daniel Kibblesmith (Writer) Valiant September 5, 2018 Comixology has a 60% off sale on Valiant collections that ends on the 26th of October. In this sale, the Valiant High digital collection is £1.99. That’s 50p an issue. That’s bargain back issue bin prices for one of the best superhero books…
Valiant Efforts: Your All-Valiant Monthly Catch-Up
Valiant! PUBWATCH! Put’em together and what do you get? You get the Valiant PUBWATCH, which is where you are now. Exactly where you need to be, my darling. We’ll get onto short reviews of everything Valiant put on the shelves in October, to catch you up should you have missed anything, but as always we…
September’s Valiant Efforts: Your Everything Valiant Catch-Up
Hello, my Valiant darlings—how are you this month? Oh? Well, I’m doing quite well; this past week I finished reading the entire ’90s Valiant universe up to Unity, the first and best crossover of the publisher’s original form. Frankly…probably the best superhero crossover of all time. Yeah, I said it. And their first run of…
Valiant’s The Year of the Visitor
This 1994 Valiant-on-Valiant documentary has a number of joys to offer and a lot of information. One such piece is a fairly large nugget: that 1994 was “the year of The Visitor.”
PUBWATCH: Valiant Efforts! August
It’s Valiant Efforts month two, looking back at all August’s releases as well as forwards through September, October, November…! Last month I caught you up on July’s issues; this month we published a big ol’ Valiant primer to help you get a feel for what the publisher is, was, and might be. For this Valiant…
Dump DC, Move Past Marvel… Viva Valiant? Yes! A Primer
Howdy, pals, it’s your trusty ex-Ed Claire here. What have I been doing since I left the hallowed halls of authority? Well, I’ve watched a LOT of Criminal Minds. And guess what? I also went bonkers for Valiant. Yeah! Valiant! Let’s talk about that, as my powerful heiress Nola Pfau, your WWAC managing editor, has…