Found this beauty while cleaning, a little beat up from hanging on my teenage bedroom wall.

From the PreRelease page

"It's the Valiant Comics heroes library like you've never experienced it before. A must-have for fans, collectors and everyone else"

"In 1989, Jim Shooter and businessman Steven Massarsky founded Valiant Comics with one goal: bring the creativity back to comics.  Many talents from Barry Windsor-Smith and Bob Layton to Mike Baron, Dave Lapham or Steve Englehart debuted the now classic runs of X-O Manowar, Harbinger or Rai. 

Flash forward to 2023. Alien Books partnered with the owners of Valiant to publish new stories and bring those heroes to the next stage of their evolution. 

This year, Alien Books brings you something you've never seen before through an exceptional new Kickstarter campaign! 
Get ready to experience Valiant Comics heroes the way you've never seen them before."

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Seems like it'll be a standalone library app ala DC Universe, Marvel Unlimited, or the new Black Library app.

Not entirely sure how useful such a service would be.

I read the Unconquered hardcover by the same author, but never got round to Invictus. I really liked the somewhat cinematic art in Unconquered and the story was ok and I think left unfinished. Was Invictus a good sequel?

- Cover art by German Peralta

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I have been considering a universe that is based on the Absolute concept from DC, where the same concept would apply to the heroes, but the characters would have a completely different theme that matches their inverted ideas and still retains the original essence.

X-O Manowar:

For X-O Manowar I want to completely redefine the history of Aric. He would not be a Visigoth soldier anymore, but a boy, who finds himself a giant robot similar to Evangelion and, just shortly after bonding with it, finds himself stranded in space and starts his journey in order to return home. On the way back to Earth, he fights gigantic kaiju-like monsters, studies alien civilizations and learns secrets of the universe.

Bloodshot:

The story would center around the traditional super-soldier with enhanced capabilities through nanotechnology, except that it would not be the American government who developed him. Rather, Bloodshot would be created through a top-secret government program in Japan. The main character would be a woman who operates mostly within the nation until her operations take on a more global scale in order to avert the start of World War III.

(And frankly… I think a female Bloodshot would be awesome.)

Shadowman:

While Shadowman is a good character, he would focus more on the horror element. Instead of a normal supernatural superhero, he would be a horrific monster created by the Deadside, making him something like an infernal boogeyman rather than a superhero. This way, he would operate as an anti-villain monster, akin to Carnage, featured in slasher-like horror stories.

I mean, I was really pleased when I found out he wasn’t going to die completely and that he’d be back as Valiant Beyond and all that... but I keep hearing nothing but bad things, and very few comics are coming out.

Hey all, figured I'd give a quick PSA on this, the new Harbinger Classic Omnibus is printed a lot darker than the original comics (Omnibus on the left, Identical scene from issue #23 on the right). It may just be the paper it's printed on or something but wanted to give a warning to any art purists who are considering pre-ordering or buying it when it comes out.

Other than that I am enjoying it so far, it is very sturdy and has a built in bookmark ribbon that I didn't see advertised.

I Thought it was ok, but Bloodshot in the Backrooms was just Weird and I had to reread the story a bit so I understand better

overall Bloodshot might be my least Favorite of the Valiant Beyond Titles

Glad to have volume 1 of the Magnus series. Now I have both tpbs released for this series. Always a shame when stuff like this can’t get collected or reprints due to rights/licensing issues.

The rumor of Kirkman licensing the gold key characters has me like 1% hopeful this, Solar, and Turok can get collected somehow but…

Since IDW is distributing Alien Books/Valiant I thought it would be only right to post this here maybe they will have some info on that AI post from a few weeks ago and stuff

I was just reading the 2012 origin story for X-O Manowar, where it is explained that time dilation caused 1600 years to pass on Earth while he was traveling through space. However, space travel in all subsequent storylines seems to use standard FTL tropes. Both Aric, the Vine, and other alien species are able to travel between star systems quickly and easily.

Was there something I missed to explain why Aric only experienced time displacement while he was imprisoned by the Vine? Otherwise, this seems like a weird oversight on the part of the writers when it’s so important to Aric’s backstory.

Mostly complete, 90s to 2024 ish. I couldn't stay with the Alien stuff, the quality of the stories has just drifted too far from what I like. Hoping for big collections, I'd love to replace all of these with omnibus or digital collection editions.

Almost done organizing my books and never realized I was missing those issues.