Valiant returned just over a week ago now and while it is a happy moment to see the company back… this reviewer wished it could have been with a better book. X-O Manowar was a gorgeously drawn book that probably will satisfy fans of decompressed storytelling. But for fans of classic Valiant or characters just dipping their toes into the Valiant Universe for the first time it may come off as a bit of a disappointment.
Why, you might wonder? Probably because you won’t see any X-O Manowar in this issue. An odd choice for a book that is supposed to launch an entire line.
Read more on X-O Manowar at the Examiner.
About Nick Ahlhelm
Nicholas Ahlhelm has let his love for superheroes as a concept pretty much overwhelm his good sense. A fan of super-powered prose fiction since he discovered Wild Cards at twelve. Since then, he has expanded his reading and viewing to cover superheroes through every means he can find, whether comics, prose fiction, movies, television, or transmedia sources. In the mean time, he regular maintains three fiction-producing website publications: Metahuman Press, Pulp Empire, and The Dead Walk Again. At the same time, he writes the weekly web comic Arc with artist Jay Rainford-Nash, published every Tuesday. (Other comic works are in various stages of production.)
He lives in Eastern Iowa with his wife and two daughters, in an increasingly small house.
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