Claire Napier, Author at WWAC

Valiant’s The Year of the Visitor 0
- Essays
- August 31, 2018
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.”
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PUBWATCH: Valiant Efforts! August 0
- Pubwatch
- August 30, 2018
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
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Dump DC, Move Past Marvel… Viva Valiant? Yes! A Primer 1
- Profiles & Primers
- August 24, 2018
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
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Claremont’s Consequences: Discussing “Asian Betsy” in 2018 6
- Interviews
- August 13, 2018
When I spoke to Chris Claremont in 2017 (the fruit of which is yet to see light—forgive me, I’m a ~Creative and I’ve never heard of schedules) I took a moment to ask him about his decision to turn Betsy Braddock, the white, English X-Men member, into a woman who appeared to be and is
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